From the FluPortal Blog

FluPortal Farewell: Use Our Flu and Tech Archive

03.31.2010

FluPortal Farewell: Use Our Flu and Tech Archive

Today is FluPortal’s last day as an active H1N1 project. As of tomorrow, the National Center for Media Engagement will host the site as an archive. An archive, however, that remains useful into the future! Here’s how FluPortal can continue to inform your journalism — on flu and any other issue.

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Aggregating Public Media Crisis Coverage

03.30.2010

Aggregating Public Media Crisis Coverage

Fluportal.org is one of a growing number of projects promoting collaboration and cooperation within the public media system. As the project wraps up, I wanted to highlight our Public Media H1N1 widget and what it can offer to future collaborations and crisis response efforts.

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Lessons Learned about FluPortal Outreach

03.29.2010

Lessons Learned about FluPortal Outreach

Perhaps the most important thing I learned from my outreach for FluPortal.org is the value of feedback. While this may sound obvious, listening to needs of public media outlets is crucial for the success of projects like FluPortal.org.

Simply put, there is no “one size fits all” when providing tools and resources. Some aspects of FluPortal.org, such as the Quick Start menus have nearly universal appeal. But, aspects such as resources for reporters evolved over time.

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Stations: Make Plans to Remove FluPortal Embeds

03.26.2010

Stations using H1N1 embeddable media should take note that support for many of these tools will be ending with the project on March 31, 2010. Read all the details.

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How We Bookmarked Using Delicious

03.26.2010

How We Bookmarked Using Delicious

In looking back over the FluPortal project, I felt we probably hadn’t featured our Delicious bookmarks prominently enough. But whether or not we promoted them well, Delicious is a powerful tool. You might be interested to learn what we did with it — so that you can start using it yourself, either publicly on your station’s website or internally as a reporting tool.

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