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A dozen sites
I'm diggin'


1. "She's like a moose going after a cabbage." A fun piece watching the Palin speech with locals in Alaska.

2. Track Hannah with these storm tools I created on Ning.

3. Stay on top of Hannah with this site that includes radar, satellite, tracking maps, warnings and more.

4. The coolest storm tracking site I have seen in a while.

5. The site watches TV and Web mentions of candidates. It also monitors Tweets and more.

6. Instead of scheduling meetings by e-mail, everybody can work out a time and date online.

7. Here are tons of GREAT tools that will help you find anything on flickr.

8. Vloggerheads fights back against YouTube chaos.

9. YouTomb is where videos go after they're booted off YouTube.

10. The evolution of voting in America is shown by interactive mapping.

11. I have never seen anything like this amazing "Swan Lake" performance. [Flash]

12. This is my current home page.

All of my Diggin' sites are saved on Poynter's del.icio.us page.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Al's Morning Meeting is a compendium of ideas, edited story excerpts and other materials from a variety of Web sites, as well as original concepts and analysis. When the information comes directly from another source, it will be attributed and a link will be provided whenever possible. The column is fact-checked, but depends on the accuracy and integrity of the original sources cited. We will correct errors and inaccuracies when we become aware of them.


Where is Al? My schedule, including seminars on the road
Sept. 10-11: Workshop at News 8 in Austin, Texas.

Sept. 13: Newsroom trainers conference at Poynter.

Sept. 15: Online interactives workshop for The Sacramento Bee.

Sept. 18-19: Workshop for journalism faculty at University of Kentucky.

Oct. 4: Storytelling workshop for Global TV (Calgary, Canada).

Oct. 5: Storytelling workshop for Global TV (Edmonton, Canada).

Oct. 10: Keynote address and online storytelling workshop for the Illinois Press Association (Springfield, Ill.)

Oct. 24-26: Judging duPont-Columbia University Awards in New York City.

Nov. 8: Storytelling workshop for NATAS [PDF] in Harrisburg, Pa. (with Les Rose, CBS photojournalist).

Nov. 13-14: National Scholastic Press Association convention, keynote speaker and workshop teacher.

Dec. 7-12: The Complete TV Producer seminar at Poynter (apply now!)

I have pending dates for workshops in Edmonton, Calgary, Sacramento, Calif. and a few others.

I already have backpack journalism, producing, reporting and multimedia educator seminars planned for 2009. Contact me at tompkins@poynter.org to set up workshops for your organization or newsroom (I generally book four to six months ahead).
Posted by Al Tompkins 10:55 AM July 22, 2008
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