This is a workshop I presented with Steve Peha on ledes, nut grafs and 25 styles of story openings for the National High School Journalism Conference in Indianapolis on 11 November 2016. For more writing tips visit www.thewordfactory.com/our-blog or buy our book, Be a Better Writer, at www.babw.me.
DOWNLOAD: https://www.blog.noypiguide.com/2021/04/writing-news-lead.html
VIDEO+DOWNLOAD https://youtu.be/cU596BPfjOk
Types of Newspaper Lead. This includes the Three Major Classifications of Lead: The Conventional or summary Lead, the Grammatical Beginning Lead and the Novelty lead.
These three classifications have their own lead types.
For Video and SLIDE DOWNLOAD:
https://youtu.be/cU596BPfjOk
DOWNLOAD HERE:
https://www.blog.noypiguide.com/2021/04/writing-news-lead.html
What is interactivity anyway? Beyond Story,Tech & Futurism. Designing Experie...Gary Hayes
A presentation given to open the Screenwest Digital Lab in Perth in March 2015. The talk focuses on user centric, experience design and challenges the audience to consider more holistic interaction approaches, especially to consider it their project really moves beyond the lower levers of interactivity. The final sections of the presentation look at interactive documentary, some game changer services and tech for storytelling and ends on the importance of parallel production and a taster of the EPOC.
Children encouraged into testing - RTC online 2020Kari Kakkonen
My keynote speech at RTC online (romaniatesting.ro) on Sep 30, 2020 about Children encouraged into software testing. Some learning theory, the story of my book project Dragons Out and comparisons of dragons and defects and other fantasy characters into software testing. Preorders of the book available at https://www.dragonsout.com/p/preorder-dragons-out-book.html and the live recording of the presentation at https://youtu.be/ulrUxjJeQ5E
DOWNLOAD: https://www.blog.noypiguide.com/2021/04/writing-news-lead.html
VIDEO+DOWNLOAD https://youtu.be/cU596BPfjOk
Types of Newspaper Lead. This includes the Three Major Classifications of Lead: The Conventional or summary Lead, the Grammatical Beginning Lead and the Novelty lead.
These three classifications have their own lead types.
For Video and SLIDE DOWNLOAD:
https://youtu.be/cU596BPfjOk
DOWNLOAD HERE:
https://www.blog.noypiguide.com/2021/04/writing-news-lead.html
What is interactivity anyway? Beyond Story,Tech & Futurism. Designing Experie...Gary Hayes
A presentation given to open the Screenwest Digital Lab in Perth in March 2015. The talk focuses on user centric, experience design and challenges the audience to consider more holistic interaction approaches, especially to consider it their project really moves beyond the lower levers of interactivity. The final sections of the presentation look at interactive documentary, some game changer services and tech for storytelling and ends on the importance of parallel production and a taster of the EPOC.
Children encouraged into testing - RTC online 2020Kari Kakkonen
My keynote speech at RTC online (romaniatesting.ro) on Sep 30, 2020 about Children encouraged into software testing. Some learning theory, the story of my book project Dragons Out and comparisons of dragons and defects and other fantasy characters into software testing. Preorders of the book available at https://www.dragonsout.com/p/preorder-dragons-out-book.html and the live recording of the presentation at https://youtu.be/ulrUxjJeQ5E
#LSCon: The Missing Link - Data Interoperability From Learning Systems to Ope...Float
SCORM, the xAPI, cmi5, and a host of other learning data standards exist and have widespread acceptance in the learning community. How can these standards extend beyond the learning world into the realm of enterprise technology? What the industry needs now is a distinct and real conversation on how to align learning technology with the technology used by the rest of the enterprise.
In this deck, mobile author Chad Udell shows how Float, working with a number of industry and government stakeholders, has charted a path to bring the worlds of enterprise technology infrastructure into sync with learning ecosystems. The learning industry has had some transformation lately with the xAPI, cmi5 and a variety of cloud LMS vendors coming online. Neither of these technology realms currently talk to each other in most organizations. You’ll explore why this is, what problems it causes, and what advances in business could be gained if this issue was solved.
In this deck, you will learn:
- About the challenges of data interoperability
- How to handle the coming data avalanche and its implications for your organization
- Where learning and enterprise technology often gap or disconnect
- What the next steps in bringing enterprise technology and learning technology integration are
Journey Mapping for Marketers & Makers by Caitlin Vlastakis Smithcaitvsmith
Journey mapping is a strategic activity designed to bring teams together to create intentional human-centered products, services and experiences. Journey mapping is a design thinking tool, but it's not just for designers. Cait developed this presentation to guide marketers, business people and creatives who care about meeting and exceeding customer expectations through the step-by-step process of collaborative journey mapping.
This presentation was developed and presented by Caitlin Vlastakis Smith at the Triangle Marketing Club in Raleigh, NC in March 2017.
More presentations by Caitlin Vlastakis Smith here:
https://www.caitvsmith.com/publications-speaking/
SCIM 2.0 - Choose your own identity adventureKelly Grizzle
You are the hero of IdentityLand and must navigate the many perils that will be encountered. Learn how SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is here to help.
Also, go deep into the SCIM 2.0 spec:
- Tips for implementing clients and servers
- Changes in SCIM 2.0
- Extensions in SCIM - how to manage a toaster!
This presentation combines a number of best practice marketing concepts from Saatch&Saatchi, Pixar and others, connected together to create a simple and systematic approach to help focus brand/product strategy formulation.
AMD Marketing, the Marketing arm of Darwish Brothers company, hopes that readers will find this useful.
How To Write Like a Human - by Claire DawsonZeus Jones
There’s a lot of angst out there about writing. So, here’s a primer on how to tackle the job of writing when you feel like you just don’t know what to say (or when you feel like you do know what to say, but you have no idea how to say it).
Your path to product: how to build a sustainable business by productizing wha...Matteo Cassese
After giving up my addiction to salary and two and a half years into my adventure as a freelancer I have encountered the following problem: how to extract the most value from my time?
I invite you on a journey to explore how ideas acquire value, what is the value chain of bestselling authors and what are the traits that are needed to solve the value/time problem. So you know beforehand, I have found those traits to be openness, service and design.
Socialytics: Accelerating IBM Connections Adoption with Watson Analyticspanagenda
Social adoption is a challenge for many companies. What is the most effective utilization of the environment? Who is using which resources, what in the environment is dormant or orphaned? Where should efforts focus in order to improve adoption? All of these questions can be difficult to answer and there is no “one size fits all” solution as each organization has their own unique needs. Join us to learn how to tackle this topic using IBM Connections and Watson. Starting out with IBM Bluemix Data Connect to collect and combine data from relevant sources, they use the cognitive power of IBM Watson Analytics to answer those tricky questions and provide solutions to real-world adoption challenges.
Preview of Sage Summit 2016 conference - being held July 25-28, 2016 Chicago, IL. This conference is open to Sage customers, partners and prospective users of their products.
This presentation by Margot Lester was originally presented at the National High School Journalism Convention in 2023. Though pegged to high school journalists focusing on environmental and climate writing, the guidance is applicable to anyone writing about anything involving data.
Improve your writing dramatically with these easy-to-implement revision strategies from award-winning journalist and author Margot Lester of The Word Factory.
More Related Content
Similar to Ledes & Nut Grafs: New Tools for Better Beginnings
#LSCon: The Missing Link - Data Interoperability From Learning Systems to Ope...Float
SCORM, the xAPI, cmi5, and a host of other learning data standards exist and have widespread acceptance in the learning community. How can these standards extend beyond the learning world into the realm of enterprise technology? What the industry needs now is a distinct and real conversation on how to align learning technology with the technology used by the rest of the enterprise.
In this deck, mobile author Chad Udell shows how Float, working with a number of industry and government stakeholders, has charted a path to bring the worlds of enterprise technology infrastructure into sync with learning ecosystems. The learning industry has had some transformation lately with the xAPI, cmi5 and a variety of cloud LMS vendors coming online. Neither of these technology realms currently talk to each other in most organizations. You’ll explore why this is, what problems it causes, and what advances in business could be gained if this issue was solved.
In this deck, you will learn:
- About the challenges of data interoperability
- How to handle the coming data avalanche and its implications for your organization
- Where learning and enterprise technology often gap or disconnect
- What the next steps in bringing enterprise technology and learning technology integration are
Journey Mapping for Marketers & Makers by Caitlin Vlastakis Smithcaitvsmith
Journey mapping is a strategic activity designed to bring teams together to create intentional human-centered products, services and experiences. Journey mapping is a design thinking tool, but it's not just for designers. Cait developed this presentation to guide marketers, business people and creatives who care about meeting and exceeding customer expectations through the step-by-step process of collaborative journey mapping.
This presentation was developed and presented by Caitlin Vlastakis Smith at the Triangle Marketing Club in Raleigh, NC in March 2017.
More presentations by Caitlin Vlastakis Smith here:
https://www.caitvsmith.com/publications-speaking/
SCIM 2.0 - Choose your own identity adventureKelly Grizzle
You are the hero of IdentityLand and must navigate the many perils that will be encountered. Learn how SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is here to help.
Also, go deep into the SCIM 2.0 spec:
- Tips for implementing clients and servers
- Changes in SCIM 2.0
- Extensions in SCIM - how to manage a toaster!
This presentation combines a number of best practice marketing concepts from Saatch&Saatchi, Pixar and others, connected together to create a simple and systematic approach to help focus brand/product strategy formulation.
AMD Marketing, the Marketing arm of Darwish Brothers company, hopes that readers will find this useful.
How To Write Like a Human - by Claire DawsonZeus Jones
There’s a lot of angst out there about writing. So, here’s a primer on how to tackle the job of writing when you feel like you just don’t know what to say (or when you feel like you do know what to say, but you have no idea how to say it).
Your path to product: how to build a sustainable business by productizing wha...Matteo Cassese
After giving up my addiction to salary and two and a half years into my adventure as a freelancer I have encountered the following problem: how to extract the most value from my time?
I invite you on a journey to explore how ideas acquire value, what is the value chain of bestselling authors and what are the traits that are needed to solve the value/time problem. So you know beforehand, I have found those traits to be openness, service and design.
Socialytics: Accelerating IBM Connections Adoption with Watson Analyticspanagenda
Social adoption is a challenge for many companies. What is the most effective utilization of the environment? Who is using which resources, what in the environment is dormant or orphaned? Where should efforts focus in order to improve adoption? All of these questions can be difficult to answer and there is no “one size fits all” solution as each organization has their own unique needs. Join us to learn how to tackle this topic using IBM Connections and Watson. Starting out with IBM Bluemix Data Connect to collect and combine data from relevant sources, they use the cognitive power of IBM Watson Analytics to answer those tricky questions and provide solutions to real-world adoption challenges.
Preview of Sage Summit 2016 conference - being held July 25-28, 2016 Chicago, IL. This conference is open to Sage customers, partners and prospective users of their products.
This presentation by Margot Lester was originally presented at the National High School Journalism Convention in 2023. Though pegged to high school journalists focusing on environmental and climate writing, the guidance is applicable to anyone writing about anything involving data.
Improve your writing dramatically with these easy-to-implement revision strategies from award-winning journalist and author Margot Lester of The Word Factory.
Learn the traits of powerful persuasive and opinion writing plus a quick strategy to help you harness that power to make your point and make it matter. Previous versions of this deck have amassed almost 16,500 views here on SlideShare! Thanks, folks!
Two proven pre-writing strategies to capture key concepts, relevant details and help you become a better writer. Excellent for business writing, including reports, thought leadership and sales content.
Here are my top takeaways from the Brand Innovators event on April 3 featuring Scott Monty, Jennifer Sey, Brigette Wolf, Chad Mitchell, Matt Repicky and Paul Polman
The Word Factory's easy-to-use strategy for writing better public service announcements for radio. Download the worksheet: https://ttms.box.com/s/0rfahnolcekwxnmcf1atrm2n00jd8gey
Tips and techniques for finding sources and getting them to talk from professional journalists. Though designed for the National High School Journalism Convention, the advice is applicable to anyone who has to do interviews, especially people new to reporting, brand journalism and content marketing.
This workshop was presented at the 2017 National High School Journalism Convention to outline some of the unique tasks digital journalists must complete that their print and broadcast counterparts may not.
This is a presentation developed for the 2017 National High School Journalism Convention to help students learn how to be more discerning in their backgrounding and researching to avoid citing sources that are biased or unreliable.
This is a presentation I made at the 2017 National High School Journalism Convention to help scholastic journalists leverage cognitive diversity to improve their news and opinion planning and reporting.
This is a presentation I made at the 2017 National High School Journalism Convention to help scholastic journalists integrate different and more diverse perspectives and sources into their reporting. Download the presenter notes (that provide a lot more context) here: http://bit.ly/NHSJC-Sources.
Learn how to make web and digital writing more effective using the 6 Trait Writing model. Prepared for the 2017 National High School Journalism Convention. Download presenter notes here: http://bit.ly/NHSJC-6Traits, and get more tips at www.thewordfactory.com/our-blog or in our award-winning book, Be a Better Writer (babw.me)
This is a presentation I made outlining revision and editing strategies based on the 6 Traits and other approaches. The workshop was part of the National High School Journalism Conference on 10 November 2016 in Indianapolis. Co-presented with Steve Peha. For more writing tips, download the companion packet at http://bit.ly/TWFReviseEdit, or buy Be a Better Writer (co-written by Steve and me) at www.babw.me.
This is a workshop I presented on editorial, opinion and advocacy writing for the 2017 National High School Journalism Conference. Download step-by-step instructions for using the strategy outlined in this deck at http://bit.ly/Writing4Advocacy.
Learn the three core elements for effectively communicating change initiatives, including Lean, Agile or Balanced Scorecard adoptions. Go here to download the full text version with slides and presenter notes: https://ttms.box.com/s/7iu9yyv4asc3703q2wts.
This slide deck shares the most basic information for nonprofit leaders new to social media. For more tips, visit http://www.thewordfactory.com/category/social-media-2/.
Download the two-page handout: https://ttms.box.com/s/l7h74pxxqmoro9h9asl86re64suesoj1
I created this deck for a cover letters workshop at UNC-Chapel Hill. It showcases the traits of successful cover letters and walks through a quick strategy for writing them quickly and effectively. Download the companion workbook at http://bit.ly/HeelsCoverLetters.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
11. GOLDEN GRADE: Developers of Carter Terrace hoped to create flat terraces for the affordable senior housing
community, but to make the deal pencil, they had to “follow the slope”. “We had to grapple with maximizing an
accessible path of travel for people with disabilities on a sloping site,” said developer Ramie Dare.
ith available
flat land
getting scarcer
and more
expensive,
some residential developers
reckon there’s gold in them thar
hills.
“These parcels are hard to
develop and tend to have more
environmental and geological
issues, especially on the West
Coast,” notes Randy Jackson,
president and principal in
charge of design for The
Planning Center in Costa Mesa,
Calif. “So many hillside sites
have been passed over until
their value has gotten so high
that someone goes after them.”
Even if a hillside property sells
for less than available flat land,
development costs can whittle
away profitability.
“You have to address the hassle
factor,” Jackson explains.
“You’ve got to make sure the
challenges and the costs are
worth it. Can you get the higher
densities and clustering of
product to create view people
will pay a premium to see?”
For smart developers, the
answer is yes — if they follow a
few essential steps.
Nut = graf/s
that give the
reader a
reason to keep
going.
Lede = first few
grafs that set
up the story
and might
deliver some of
the news.
The Top of Your Story