Entries by SNO Trainer

Three Category Ideas for the New Year

Happy 2024! We hope you enjoyed a happy and relaxing holiday season and that you’re ready for the year ahead. To kick things off, we’re sharing a list of three categories that have caught our eye recently on client sites. They all have a few things in common – they’re easy to update, they’re fun […]

The SNO Report: Our Year in Numbers

Everyone has their New Year traditions – whether it’s perusing your favorite news outlet’s end-of-year listicles, watching the ball drop in Times Square, or setting a few New Year’s resolutions (and promising you’ll stick to them this year). One of our favorite traditions at the end of each year is to look back at all the previous year’s analytics […]

SNO Distinguished Sites Badge Tips

As we approach the end of 2023, we are a little over one third of the way through the Distinguished Sites badge submission season. Dozens of schools are participating, and, at the time of publishing, we’ve already had nine earn Distinguished Site status! It’s not too late to make this a goal for your site in 2024, so we’re reaching […]

SNO Tip Tuesday: Mobile Design

It’s SNO Tip Tuesday time. In each SNO Tip Tuesday report, we’ll share tips and tricks to help you optimize the tools available on your website. Today, we’re diving into mobile design. If we were to guess, we’d say a majority of your audience is probably viewing your site on a mobile device. That means your content […]

Best of Best of SNO: September-October Edition

Wow! You all have been bringing it with your Best of SNO submissions this school year! At the time of publishing, we’ve had over 4,000 stories submitted – most days over 100 submissions. So, as usual, competition is steep. When we attended the National High School Journalism Convention in Boston earlier this month, one of the top questions we answered […]

10 Ways to Use the New Long-Form and Infobox Tools

At the beginning of this year, we introduced several updates to the story publishing and design tools on your site (in case you missed it, you can read more about those updates here and here). Since then, we’ve had lots of requests for examples of these tools in action – especially the updated long-form and the brand new infobox. So, we took […]

Let’s Talk Money: SNO Ads & SNO Donate

Want to make some money for your publication? We have two built-in monetization programs – SNO Ads and SNO Donate – that can help with that. Both programs are available (and free) to use on your site. Plus, they’re completely optional – you can opt in and out of either at any time. Read on below to learn a […]

Coming Soon: SNO Distinguished Sites 2023-2024

We know it’s the time of year when people like to trick and frighten their friends, but one thing that doesn’t scare the SNO Patrol is the opening of submissions for our Distinguished Sites badges, which happens next Monday, Oct. 2. The Distinguished Sites badges are awarded to publications that meet our guidelines in the following areas: Continuous Coverage Site […]

Meet the New Story Templates: Part 1

This summer, we made some big changes to our story publishing interface and story page templates. We previewed these in last week’s SNO Report, but we think it’s time for a more formal introduction. Updated Story Publishing If you’ve published a story already this year, you’ve probably noticed the story publishing interface has a new (and […]