http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/09/24/maps-mashups-and-multimedia-online-journalism-students-tackle-interactivity/ A conversation. Wed, 23 May 2012 15:16:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/09/24/maps-mashups-and-multimedia-online-journalism-students-tackle-interactivity/#comment-6929 BCU’s ‘Trinity Mirror Student Journalist of the Year 2008′ - Azeem Ahmad | Online Journalism Blog Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:31:59 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=1133#comment-6929 [...] Azeem built the site from scratch using open source content management system Joomla, a raft of plugins, and even survived a hacker attack. But more importantly, he has probably grasped the workings of a networked environment better than any other student, using Twitter particularly effectively, building RSS mashups, learning about search engine optimisation, and exploring the vagaries of online communities. With Rachael he managed a team of second year journalism students as they learned online journalism on the job - the first time I’d tried such a model, which seemed to work very well.  [...] [...] Azeem built the site from scratch using open source content management system Joomla, a raft of plugins, and even survived a hacker attack. But more importantly, he has probably grasped the workings of a networked environment better than any other student, using Twitter particularly effectively, building RSS mashups, learning about search engine optimisation, and exploring the vagaries of online communities. With Rachael he managed a team of second year journalism students as they learned online journalism on the job – the first time I’d tried such a model, which seemed to work very well.  [...]

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