Mobile

#nutip Use bullets, subheads, lists, etc., to guide web and mobile readers to most important info in stories.

Tip:

Make it as easy as possible for your web and mobile readers to find the most important information in your story. Use such tools as bullets, subheads and numbered lists.

Tip Number:

538

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Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

#nutip Writing for mobile/web? Anticipate readers' questions readers and tell them what they want to know.

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Anticipate questions that readers might have when you are writing for the web. Become an advocate for them and tell them what they want to know.

Tip Number:

529

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Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

#nutip If you back into a story on the web or mobile with an anecdotal lead, readers may abandon you.

Tip:

Anecdotal leads work on the web and mobile devices only if they are done really well. If you use them to back into a story, readers will abandon you.

Tip Number:

507

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Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

#nutip Limit the number of clicks users need to reach info. You lose them with too much clicking and scrolling.

Tip:

Limit the number of clicks users need to reach information. Audiences are more averse than ever to the potential for the wasted effort that too much clicking and scrolling can cause.

Tip Number:

506

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Functional Web Design for Today’s News Audiences

#nutip Preview your story for mobile by emailing it to yourself and opening it on your phone.

Tip:

Wondering how your story will work on mobile? Email it to yourself and then call it up on your phone. Is the headline too long? Are there bad breaks in bulleted items or between pages? If so, rewrite.

Tip Number:

504

Course:

Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

#nutip Don’t just push your website content into mobile app. Be relevant to people disconnected from a computer.

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Don’t just push your website’s content into a mobile app. Make your content relevant to people disconnected from their computer.

Tip Number:

486

Course:

Taking on Hyperlocal: Lessons Learned From a High-Profile Start-Up

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Last Week to Redeem Our Training Gift, the Mobile Essential Tools Package

9:41 AM Dec. 28, 2010 — by Howard Finberg

We are coming to the end of our training gifts. Our final package is aimed at giving you training to help you produce engaging and interactive stories by taking advantage of the latest mobile and media tools.

Poynter's News University can show you how to do just that. With the last Training Tuesday special discount of the year, we’re offering 50 percent off our Mobile and Media Essential Tools Series. With this training package, you’ll learn the essentials of mobile news reporting and delivery.

Tags: #trainingtues, E-Learning, Mobile, NewsU, Training