Reserve a spot in our News App brainstorming sessions
October 22, 2012
By now you’ve heard of the SU Student App competition (http://idea.syr.edu/funding/su-app-competition/ ), which has a new Journalism Innovation category with a $500 prize. The deadline for submitting ideas is Nov. 9, and your mobile product or app needs to be ready to demo by November 28.
“App” sounds like a lot of hard development work for journalists, but it’s not. If you have good content there are some very easy, inexpensive ways to make it mobile-friendly that qualifies for the contest. Come to one of our two one-hour lunchtime info sessions (Oct. 24, Oct. 29) in Newhouse 2, 494 to learn about the following:
- Creating multimedia eBooks using Apple’s free iBooks Author tools.
- Creating a WordPress site with a mobile-friendly theme.
We’ll also have FOOD, so you can learn about how to make mobile apps and chow down at the same time. PLEASE RSVP to one of the two events on EventBrite here if you plan to attend so we can get enough food: http://journovationapp.
Hope to see you there!