Entries by SNO Trainer

Tips for iPhone photography

Depending on how you’re schooling this year, you may have less access to your school’s trough of camera equipment and be more reliant on your mobile phone than ever. It’s a good practice to strive for having a photo with every article you’re publishing. If you’re pursuing the SNO Distinguished Sites Multimedia Badge, you’re going […]

What? Like it’s hard?: this week on Fresh Powder

What? Like it’s hard?   “In my very informal survey of Covid-19-era hires who work in office jobs, the key challenge appears to be the most obvious one: You have to work with a lot of people you’ve never met before, and seeing them on video calls doesn’t mean you’re really getting to know them. […]

How to add your print PDFs online

Issuu has long been a popular tool for embedding a digital, interactive copy of your print edition on your website. Now, it’s raising its prices. Whether you’re looking for a solution to embed your print PDF online for the first time or now looking for a cheaper alternative, we’re here with a few suggestions. But […]

Why it’s greased lightnin’: this week on Fresh Powder

Why it’s greased lightnin’. A thousand years ago, when Zoom was basically nothing, who did the company think its product was for? It doesn’t matter now, as more than 100,000 U.S. school districts and about half of our higher-ed are using the videoconferencing platform. Whatever Zoom thought it was, it has had to virtually reinvent […]

Learn about the overhauled Widgets interface

This fall, you may start to notice changes to your Widget Control Panel, like a full-screen editing interface and a widget called the Story List. We launched this FLEX update to all sites last spring. Let’s review. Why? The new editing and customization interface on the Widget Control Panel is designed to be easier to […]

Earn revenue this year with SNOAds.com

This summer we launched SNOAds.com, a new platform designed to make it easy for advertisers to buy ads on student news websites. With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting virtually every aspect of our normal lives and shrinking budgets, raising revenue through advertising will be more important and challenging than ever.  Here are some tips on making […]

What’s new from SNO?

SNO never stops developing its platform. Over the past several months, we’ve brought you a number of new things. In case you’re only just now trying to catch up, here’s some of what’s new: SNOAds.com This summer we launched SNOAds.com, a new platform designed to make it easy for advertisers to buy ads on student […]

Welcoming you back with these learning resources

It’s time to go back to school — sort of. This school year will be especially challenging, no matter how you and your students are going to class for the foreseeable future. At SNO, we’re always here to try to help you through the year and put your staff in positions to succeed. So, as […]

SNO recognizes 63 student publications as SNO Distinguished Sites for 2019-2020

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 each of the six […]