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Two big milestones over the weekend for newspapers interested in switching from College Publisher to WordPress: William P. Davis of The Maine Campus published an extensive post on how he migrated his database, and John Luetke has released a CP Import WordPress plugin.

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

So Long Sections? – Joey sez: Amen brother! I’ve been saying this for years: drop the damn confusing, non-made-for-web nav bars on newspaper sites in favor of a web-first methodology.
Last minute summer internship – [...]

In print, your circulation is limited to the surrounding geographic area, meaning your brand has little competition. But online, you have to differentiate your publication from the thousands of other brands out there. And that might mean ditching your print masthead for a more modern nameplate.
Take these three brands, for example. Although on a local [...]

The big news this week is that Facebook, arguably the most closed-off social networking site on the internet, will allow users to log into the site using OpenID credentials given to them by other Web sites. As ReadWriteWeb states,
New Facebook users will now be able to create Facebook accounts using their Gmail credentials and existing users [...]

Hosts: Daniel Bachhuber and Joey Baker
Guests: Jake Paul, Melinda Bardon, and David Estes
Summary: Tuesday’s conversation was all about summer projects. We heard about The Eagle Online’s plans to move to Expression Engine, Melinda Bardon’s community news website startup based on Dot Net Nuke, and David Estes’ thoughts on a possibly open source iPhone application for [...]

 

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CoPress is looking for a new community manager. College students who are into journalism and social media – this is for you!

If you’ve been keeping watch in the forum lately you may have seen some talk about a College Web Design Camp for student newspapers. I posted some preliminary information on the wiki a couple days ago and this is a more formal introduction to the idea.
The main goals
Our goal is to create an environment within [...]

We’re changing things up! Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared – Joey Baker: Video sharing sites treat your copyright differently. Summary: the best sites are the most restrictive.

4 productive summer [...]

As the school year winds down to an end, many news organizations are searching for the next online editor. If you already have your next online editor, then the summer is a perfect time for him or her to brush up on necessary skills that will make your news website flourish.
Finding the balance
Ideally, an online [...]

Mark Briggs at Serra Media is taking a forward-looking approach to finding summer interns: have them pitch their projects. From the announcement:
Instead of a specific, rigid framework of duties, tasks, hours and pay that you try to ply yourself into, we’re inviting you to make a pitch on the assignment as if you were an [...]