Interested in serving as a student leader for ONA Mizzou? Email onamizzou@gmail.com for an application. Available positions are president, vice-president/treasurer, secretary and social media coordinator.
Dan Oshinsky, a convergence and Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow alum, is joining to talk about creating content that makes people want to share it. Oshinksy is the founder of Stry.us and currently works for BuzzFeed and will be join us by Skype to answer your questions.
Read a “letter home” from Oshinsky to students at Mizzou.
Andy Whalen co-founder of personalized news aggregator Delve News joins us Via Skype to talk about the changing ways consumers filter, find and share news. Come hear about Whalen’s experience working for a news startup and how journalists use their entrepreneurial skills.
ONA Mizzou is organizing an end-of-semester holiday gathering with the other journalism clubs for Dec. 6 at 5 p.m. They’ll have treats, show off their talents with karaoke and battle to see which club can claim the champion title in a MU J-School trivia match.
Want more details? Email ONA Mizzou at onamizzou at gmail.com
Do you read news on your iPhone more often than on your computer? Are you interested in learning how to think with a mobile-first mindset? If so, join ONA Mizzou at noon Feb. 17 in Walter Williams Hall Room 35 (a conference room off the red-carpeted hallway). They’ll have Amanda Bromwich and Matt Schmertz, 2011 convergence graduates, on hand to talk about their jobs at The Marketing Arm. Both work at this Dallas-based marketing agency as project managers. Topics will include mobile advertising, mobile-first publishing strategies and job hunting.
Do you have questions you’d like answered at the event? Tweet them now to @ONAMizzou or write on our Facebook Wall.
The potential dangers of social media are sometimes veiled by funny status updates and witty tweets. But even online identities can face real-life threats, like stalking and harassment.
Join ONA Mizzou at our next event, focusing on how to use social media safely.
We’ll meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2 in Reynolds Journalism Institute 100A. Three guests will lead the conversation and answer your questions:
Joy Mayer, Columbia Missourian director of community outreach
Columbia Police Sgt. Jill Wieneke
Danica Wolf, Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center coordinator
Do you have questions you’d like answered at the event? Tweet them to us now (@ONAMizzou), so we’ll have a list before it starts. You can also write on our Facebook Wall.
After Apple booted Google Maps from iOS last year, Daniel Graf led the development of a beautiful, refreshed mapping experience that shot to number one in the iTunes store and kicked Apple’s ass on its own turf. Here’s how Graf made it happen—in his own words:
“We have a very successful Android version of Google Maps, so the easiest thing to do was to say, this is super-successful, users love it, so why don’t we just port it over to iOS? But I wanted to challenge the team. While the Android version is a great product, you can also tell it’s been around for a while. You have to access everything via menus—it’s not really best-use-case driven anymore. I said, let’s take a step back—what if we could start from scratch and forget anything we’ve ever done? We have the foundation—the Google data, the mapping data, the local business data, the imagery, the navigation algorithms—it’s a dream to start with.”
