Social Shares: New tools for the 2012 election and free training

The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.

• A video produced by the New York Times explores how content is shared on the internet.
• Letter from the President: Why ONA opposes SOPA.
• What should the Online Journalism Awards be rewarding? A JCarn conversation brings a variety of opinions to the table.

• Want to learn to code? Code Year will help you do it in 2012 by sending you a free lesson a week.
• Check out these new tools to watch the 2012 election coverage.

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Slide photo is by League of Women Voters of California via Flickr.