Sunne shares one new tool every week and talks through how reporters can make the most of it. It’s called Gestimer and it sends handy little reminders right from your Mac’s toolbar.īONUS: I learned about Gestimer from Samantha Sunne’s wonderful Tools for Reporters newsletter. If you’re anything like me, odds are decent you’ll forget about it for three days and then have to hit them with a blitz of messages three hours before your deadline. TOOL TIP: Let’s say that you email and call that source and don’t hear back. You can also save email addresses to your account or, if you’re lazy, email them directly from Hunter.io. Want proof? Click the sources button to see where the address has been listed.Most organizations have standard formatting for email addresses that you can use to figure out the one you’re looking for. If the person isn’t listed, pay attention to how others are.The person you’re looking for may already be listed, possibly even with both an email address and phone number. Visit Hunter.io and enter the company or organization’s URL.With a little know-how, Hunter.io unlocks that information. NEW TOOL, FOUR STEPS: Many organizations don’t publicly share contact information for all their employees. My hope is that Try This! makes you just a little bit more comfortable with the ongoing digital metamorphoses in our workplaces.īecause succeeding at change isn’t hard. “That tool seems great but we tried something like it before and it didn’t do a thing for us.”īut a little familiarization with a new tool, technology, social network, workflow or even an idea makes it all a lot more palatable. “Why do we have to do all of this stuff? We should just stick to writing the news.” “Sure, my workflow isn’t working, but I can’t afford the time to do something new.” Oft-misinterpreted research from McKinsey shows that a majority of people “who commit to a change initiative will eventually succeed.”īut if most change results in some type of success, why does it seem so hard? And why does it feel like all of these changes the news industry (or whatever industry you’re in because journalism is far from the only industry in flux) are failing all around us? Learning new technologies, adapting to new workflows and even making grand organizational changes are all actually - brace for it - pretty easy. I may have even pitched it to you as a newsletter about digital tools.īut that’s not the topic of this newsletter at all. It appears in the digital tools section of the Poynter website. The signup page says it’s about digital tools. The header of this newsletter says it's about digital tools. Want bite-sized news, tutorials and ideas about the best digital tools for journalism in your inbox every Monday? Sign up here. This article originally appeared in Try This! - Tools for Journalism, our newsletter about digital tools.
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