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Wow, SNO community! You all brought it in a HUGE way this school year. This was definitely one of the strongest years in Best of SNO history, both in terms of quality and the number of submissions. As always, Best of SNO competition is tough! It appears we will end the year with a 15% publication rate. […]
We know the clock is winding down to summer break. Before you and your staff call it a wrap on the 2023-2024 school year, please make sure to review our end-of-the-year checklist to set yourself up for success in the fall. Remove site access for your departing staff members. Once the last day of school concludes, […]
This week, we’ve shared a series of reports with tips and tricks from advisers and student editors on earning SNO Distinguished Site status. For our final Distinguished Site report, we’re broadening it out a bit. We consider this last set of ideas “cherries on top” – not only are they solid suggestions for pursuing badges and/or Distinguished Sites, but they’re […]
If you’ve been checking your email this week, you’ve probably seen the tips, tricks and advice we’ve shared from our SNO Distinguished Site advisers. So far, we’ve covered organization and badge specifics. Today, we’re shifting gears, highlighting a few student editors who shared some insights about leading their staffs to becoming Distinguished Sites. Much like many of the advisers, the students stressed the […]
Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing tips and advice from advisers whose staffs have already achieved Distinguished Site status this year. Yesterday, we talked organization. Today, we’re focusing on the badges themselves. Whether you want to earn one or two before the year’s up or achieve all six and become a SNO Distinguished Site, check out a few pointers from our Distinguished Site […]
With a little over a month to go, the countdown to the end of SNO Distinguished Sites season has officially begun! We recently reached out to advisers whose publications have already earned Distinguished Site status this year for suggestions and insights about the process, and boy did they deliver! We’ll be sharing their ideas in multiple batches throughout […]
On Saturday, April 6 at the National High School Journalism Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) named 12 scholastic media sites as Online Pacemaker winners. Of the 12 winners, 11 are part of the SNO community. NSPA previously announced 26 Online Pacemaker finalists in February. Congratulations to all of the Online Pacemaker winners! […]
As the weather gets nicer and the spring events start ramping up, we know that motivating your staff to maintain your website might be tough. To stave off the spring slump, here’s a giant (and random) list of ideas our SNO staff loves that might spark a little inspiration. We can’t motivate your staff for […]
The weather is heating up and so is Best of SNO! We recently surpassed 12,000 stories submitted for consideration this school year. Of those submissions, we’ve published roughly 1,800. Numbers that impressive call for another round of Best of Best of SNO stories. One thing we see regularly among submissions is staffs wanting to cover major […]