Entries by SNO Trainer

The SNO Report: What to Know About Plugins

Plugins are a great perk of being part of the WordPress community, which you are by way of your SNO site by the way. There’s a massive library of ready-to-install plugins at your disposal, right on your dashboard, and some of them actually add nice features and enhancements to your site. We’ll get to that. […]

Are you Abed? I love Star Wars: this week on Fresh Powder

Are you Abed? I love Star Wars. “After they choose their subject—topics have included urban legends, infamous cultural figures, and tabloid fodder such as the Satanic Panic of the nineteen-eighties—one host usually does a mountain of research, and the other comes into the episode completely blind, with only their assumptions and memories to go on. […]

The SNO Report: Tips to Avoid Copyright Infringement

The Super Bowl is over. The bad guys won. Your sports editor wrote a little recap. Now, what about getting that photo? Chances are you’re probably not going to be able to find one to reuse easily if at all, unless you know someone who was there or pay a subscription for a wire service. […]

Then we’ll punch a hole in the sky: this week on Fresh Powder

Then we’ll punch a hole in the sky. What’s the value in being first if what you’re reporting isn’t serving your audience’s taste? Perhaps there isn’t any. You may not know his name, but Chris Stirewalt was the Fox News Channel politics editor who called Arizona for Biden on election night — well before other […]

FLEX UPDATE: Staff Profile Changes Coming Soon

Your staff profiles are about to change. Take a look at the new design: Staff Pages will not be effected by the newest FLEX Theme update, but each student’s staff profile will look and operate a little differently. This update comes down to a simple reassessment of how we think staff profiles should work. Here’s […]

The SNO Report: Full-Screen Embeds for Adobe Spark

For publications using Adobe Spark, we’ve got a specialty feature for you. The Full Screen Embed template allows you to embed third-party embed codes into the post body of a story on your site and have them display at full screen when someone clicks on to go to the story. It could conceivably work with […]

Break it up, you clique: this week on Fresh Powder

Break it up, you clique. Big Podcasting, a reference to the old money being infused into the industry, is relatively new but has developed so quickly that you might not know who owns your favorite podcast anymore. Spotify? iHeartMedia? SiriusXM? What about Amazon? With big media companies buying up so many once-independent podcasts productions, is […]