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With digital applications changing as fast as the news cycle, journalists are working harder than ever to think on their feet and adapt quickly to new technologies with a clearer understanding of what’s working for others and what’s not. This section showcases “real time” examples of how others are using technology to enhance their work. Recommend technology that is advancing your work or let us know of a technology you think others might want to avoid and why.

PauPress

One of the first seamless customer relationship management (CRM) systems for WordPress allows you to customize work flow, commerce, data and community with a free or paid version.

twitonomy

Twitonomy offers detailed, visualized analytics about every aspect of your Twitter account with both free and premium content. Easily browse, search, filter, learn – iterate & repeat.

ePublishing

High quality (and free) downloadable case studies and inspirational success stories on building revenue and audience; Epublisher, a premium priced eCommerce services shop, offers rich experience.

Mentionmapp

An interactive map shows you new tweeps close to your network, helps you see who you interact with most frequently and easily track conversations going on now. Broad audience insight.

LearnStreet

Simple, step-by-step tutorials for news entrepreneurs and others to learn coding skills. A free resource that can help journalists expand their marketability in the evolving media landscape.

Disqus

Designed to play well with WordPress, Tumblr, Drupal, Blogger, HTML and JS. A drag or drop comment system offering a free version you can experiment with to encourage an active online community.

TweetCharts

Find people tweeting about your local stories and beats. TweetCharts lets users compile a comprehensive report based on any hashtag, username, word, phrase, or URL.

ReadrBoard

Improve your audience understanding by capturing reactions in the moment as people read, see or hear your content. The concept of comment threads, but deeply interactive. Embed with a button.

Digital Training Comes of Age

Journos now need fluency in multimedia, data, entrepreneurship and social engagement. Use this report documenting the desire and payoff of training to build a professional development plan.

JReporter

A mobile platform aiming to up engagement, improve citizen reporting and increase revenue by building in ad space, verification tools, and automatic releases on content sent right to your system.
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