Digging for global data

Food prices are rising steep; unemployment in the EU is going up, Sub-Sahara developing countries are doing well in ICT development. How do you check these statements, or find the data to sustain these statements? If you use Google keyword search je  will miss 80% of the fun. Google indexes not more than 20% of […]

Stay tuned

RSSfeeds in all forms are a powerful instrument for journalists to cover a subject during a longer period of time. There are stand-alone RSSfeeds, like Omea Reader, or integrated readers, like the one Google offers. Both are useful in their own way, and you will learn how to successfully let them do boring and time-consuming […]

Managerstrack

On Friday Afternoon, immediately following the start of the conference at the Marriott Hotel, the European Investigative Journalism Conference will provide publishers, managers and editors in chief with a special ‘track’ of panel sessions, catered towards the needs of those in charge of news rooms and media outlets. You will have to sign up separately […]

Build your own website

JOURNALIST 2.0 Make yourself findable and searchable on the web. Marie-José Klaver will explain how you can use free tools and programs like WordPress, tagging, LinkedIn and Twitter to present yourself and your work on the internet. Trainer: Marie-José Klaver When? Friday November 21st, 3.45 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)

CSI Internet

Find hidden data in websites, documents and photo’s and learn more about authority & reliability of any given web source. Trainer: Henk van Ess When? Friday November 21st, 2.00 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)

Go get it, Google!

Learn how to formulate clever instructions for Google and endhance your chances that ‘the thing’ reports back with all the right answers. Trainer: Luuk Sengers

What meets the eye

This training gives basic tips and tricks for research to (historical) film-, photograph-, video- and sound files all-over-the world on the visible and invisible web. What are the best Internet sites? Blickx, European Film Gateway, Flickr, Pathe, IAMHIST, Internet Archive,  Video Active.  Which Google gadgets and other search tools you can use.  A practical lesson […]

Online social networking

This session shows the immense possibilities of the social network sites for journalists who want to spice up their coverage with stories of real people. The data speak for themselves: Myspace (120 million users), Facebook (100 million), Linkedin (25 million). Also Dutch/Flemish social sites are very popular with Hyves counting more than 7 million users […]

A personal search engine

Build a personal search engine, that is better in finding what you’re looking for than Google. When we hear the the term “search engine”, the companies Google, Yahoo or the Russian Yandex may immediately come to mind. While these companies have immense resources and do a very good job of identifying web pages with specific […]

Domain games

Working with domain tools gives you a head start above normal reporter. Learn how to find out the newest sites and keep track of changes. (For experienced users). The Domain Name System (also known as DNS) is the naming protocol used identify nearly every server and service on the Internet.  DNS is integral  to the […]