News Flash with Multimedia Tool

The objective of my creation was to draw in the audience. I wanted the audience to be able to have a visual that grabbed their attention and made them want to visit the website. There is a saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. I was trying to get my audience to view the picture and hopefully it speaks for itself.

I chose using a picture advertisement over other forms because this is what I felt would draw in the audience the most successfully. My press release is about getting honest and trustworthy news; so, I felt the way to show what I meant was through an advertisement. News ads tend to grab your attention with headlines. They make you want to read the article or go to the website. This is what I was trying to accomplish when choosing an ad for my multimedia tool. I didn't feel a video or screen shots would have quite the same effect. I think simple but flashy makes it easier for the audience to become engaged. Plus, in today's society the attention span of the average person is minimal. I was afraid a video or demonstration would cause people to lose interest. I wanted something everyone could understand.

I feel the ad enhances my message because it says what my press release says but in fewer words and very simply put. There are a lot of people in the world who are visual learners. Just reading my press release, no matter how catchy it is, won't draw in everyone. Seeing a bright, flashy, picture that states the purpose provides the viewer with more to work with. It gives them more to base their opinion on. If the article itself doesn't grab your attention right away the picture probably would. The picture ad is simple. It tells what the website it about and gives the link to the site, hopefully pulling the viewer in and making them want to see more items such as this on my site. Since you never know what type of person will be viewing the press release I felt it was better to keep it simple. This way everyone from a high school level to a graduate level can understand.

Picture retrieved from http://makebpdstigmafree.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/news-flash.png?w=630&h=420

Photo editing performed using www.pixlr.com/editor

Live Your Dream Blog

I looked at a blogging site for women called Live Your Dream.org. It is an inspiring site that tries to empower women into living their dreams. The site has many different blog posts for women including career, health, financial, and lifestyle. The main function or purpose of the blog site is to give women tools and advice to help them accomplish their dreams. The blog links you to many well-known women bloggers to research more into their work and brings their work to you on their site. The public appears to be well incorporated in the blog. They can send in their blogs or articles and have them posted on the site to help inspire others as well or just to have their story heard. They have an area on the blog called live your dream and it is a space for the public to get daily inspirational readings, words of wisdom, or tools that may help them accomplish their goals. The public is also free to post comments and share and like the blogs to give feedback. The blog appears to me to be well rounded including both the writer and the public.

The blogging site has a lot of substance. There is the main page which highlights featured blogs for the day. There is a section that tells all about the site and what their goal is that they are trying to accomplish. There is a section to donate and to volunteer if you'd like to get actively involved with what they are trying to accomplish through their blog site. There is a lot of content. The blog has featured bloggers but it also links you to former blogs that were on the site. There are 4 sections which are career, financial, health, and lifestyle that all blog about different aspects of a woman's life and how to help her through and motivate her. You can pledge, join the site, and shop all to help the cause of helping less fortunate women and girls' accomplish their goals in life.

I feel that it is an effective blog. The site has loads of information. If I would click on career it brings up all of the career blogs for me to choose from and there are a lot. If you like a specific blogger you can click on their name and it will bring up all of their work. It does this for every section you click on. It is very well organized and put together. The site provides details and allows you to comment and give feedback and in that way I feel it is effective for the public because there is an interaction occurring. The main purpose of the blog is to help empower women and I think the site does exactly that. There is no negativity on the site at all. It is all positive and uplifting material aiming to make you become the person you want to become by giving you tools and readings to help you along the way. Since the goal of the site is to help women I believe it does exactly that. By the time I was done reviewing the site I wanted to join.

When you are crafting a blog I feel it is necessary to have a goal in mind. You need to know why you are blogging and what you are trying to achieve. You need to say what you are trying to achieve and how you are going to achieve it. The blog needs to have good, reliable information and links to sources to back up your information. A very important aspect of a blog is a comments or feedback section. It is important to let the public know that they matter. If you don't they could very quickly lose interest and not follow your blog. Blogs can be very effective if used in the right way. When blogging it is important to remember to stay ethical and honest. Don't provide misleading or false information. That is detrimental in a blog when following best practices.

I've never looked to much into blogs before this class but I'm starting to expand out and research them a little more. This blog I found interesting and informative and full of stories and information that I didn't even know were available. It made me want to research more blogs and see what I could find. I found this to be a great mode of delivery for information because everything you could possible need is right in front of you at the click of a mouse.

Resource:
Live your dream.org (2013). Retrieved from http://www.liveyourdream.org/yourdream.html

News Flash

"News Flash - A news portal that gives the facts in a flash

Receive the facts and decide for yourself

Newark, OHIO. Nov. 06, 2013/News Flash /- News Flash is a new online portal that delivers accurate and informative information in the blink of an eye. We are here for you!


The online portal was created to inform the public by using the most accurate and up to date information available. The online site will focus on using three major functions that Kovach & Rosenstiel feel are necessary to journalism. The portal will follow the functions so that the readers are getting the most informative and accurate information available.

Our goal is to provide news in a flash that is accurate, detailed, and trustworthy. News Flash will focus on being an authenticator. We will make sure that all of our news and facts are reliable and accurate. We will not print information until it has been verified by at least two credible sources. We will be the investigator for the public. We will investigate all of our sources and information before providing you with any details. This will eliminate false information. We will do this by having a person dedicated to investigating information as it comes in. Most importantly, we will be the news portal that makes sense of all of the information for you. A team of qualified experts will evaluate the information and give the reader the information they need to develop their own opinion based on the facts. Our news site is not designed to decide for you. We want to give you the facts and allow you to decide for yourself.


About News Flash
My name is Misty Burke. I am the founder and creator of News Flash.


Contact:
Misty Burke
News Flash
Phone:
misty.burke@newsflash.org
www.newsflash.org

Resource:
Kovach, B. & Rosenstiel, T. (2011). Blur: How To Know What's True In The Age Of Information Overload. New York, New York. Bloomsbury USA.