By Tonie AuerDFW Chapter President and National Blog Chairwoman I am on a few different journalism email distribution lists. I get things coming to my inbox that direct me to the latest firings, hirings and scandals related to … read more
The ASBPE Blog
Does Your Website or Blog Have a Style Guide?
Erin EricksonASBPE Chicago Chapter Does your website or blog have a style guide? Should it? Jonathan Bailey’s post on BlogHerald raises a great point about the importance of an online style guide. I have seen style guides for … read more
Online Training: Fact Checking and Managing Change
By Martha SpizziriASBPE Web Editor Two online training programs have recently caught my eye: Tomorrow afternoon, News University is offering a one-hour webinar titled Managing Change: Five Steps to Success. Topics to be addressed include (direct quote from … read more
10+ tips for writing better blog posts
Erin Erickson ASBPE Chicago ChapterAs editors, we’re trained to write succinct prose that gets to the heart of the matter. As a blogger, do you find yourself unable to capture that same zeal? Are you a journalist trying … read more
Reasons Why Editors Need to Understand Second Life
By Robert Freedman Past President of ASBPE National The 3-D virtual reality platform Second Life has seen huge growth over the last several years, but it’s not the young gamer crowd that has pushed the number of account … read more
Blogger Journalism?
By Tonie Auer DFW ASBPE Chapter President and National Blog Committee Chairwoman As a blogger and a journalist, I see a fine line between the two roles. Yes, blogging plays a role in news. I think everyone would … read more
How WWW Changed the World of Publishing
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting After 30 years in business-to-business publishing, I decided to hang my shingle as a consultant. One reason resulted from a question I was asked at an industry conference. The organizers had … read more
Two Deadlines Near for International B2B Competitions
Think you’re creative? You have two days to prove it by entering the TABPI Design Challenge, sponsored by Trade Association Business Publications International. The challenge is to design a cover for a hypothetical issue of an imaginary magazine, … read more
Is the News Ever Finished?
By Tonie Auer National Blog Chairwoman and DFW Chapter President I read an interesting blog post on how the Internet and World Wide Web have impacted the way we cover the news. The idea is that a story … read more
You Are What the Web Says You Are: Writers and Social Media
By Joe PulizziFounder and Chief Content Officer for Junta42 My expertise is in content marketing — custom publishing to most of you reading here. When I was asked to submit a blog post, I started to think about … read more





