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It’s the moment we know you’ve all been waiting for … SNO Distinguished Sites season is back! Starting tomorrow, Oct. 1, our SNO Distinguished Sites awards program will be open for business. Starting tomorrow, you’ll submit for badges on your own site dashboard, in the tab for SNO Badges. There, you’ll be able to track […]
This summer, more than 400 teachers and students from across the country attended our SNO Academy’s live and interactive virtual classes, taught in partnership between SNO and a group of the nation’s best journalism advisers. We were so overwhelmed by your response and continued interest in the Academy that we’re pleased to be able to […]
Over the past eight months, more publications participated in and earned SNO Distinguished Sites status than ever before in the program’s seventh year. SNO recognized 63 student publications as distinguished sites, compared to 49 last year, and awarded 264 publications with at least one badge, up from 219. And while meeting the requirements to obtain […]
As you wrap up another school year, consider this straightforward list of tasks to do before putting your website to bed for the summer. Turn your site’s departing staff members into subscriber users. Doing this retains all the great content those students produced this year but strips away their access to the backend of the […]
We’ve almost made it through another school year, and with that, another record-breaking nine months of Best of SNO submissions. Don’t believe us? Check out these stats. As of mid-May, Best of SNO had… More than 20,000 stories submitted to it, since September Published approximately 3,500 pieces (an overall publication rate of 18%) 477 participating […]
Bippity boppity boo. Let’s talk about Fiona Apple. The musician’s latest album, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” was awarded a perfect score by Pitchfork, the first new album in a decade to earn that level of acclaim from the publication and one of only more than 50 since the site was started by a Minneapolis teenager […]
Today, we’re releasing a FLEX theme update to all sites that includes immediate front-end redesigns of some widgets and a total rebuild to the Widget Control Panel editing interface. Let’s talk about it. Why? The new editing and customization interface on the Widget Control Panel is designed to be easier to work with and make […]