#learningnewthings

[jmelam]

“November Twilight”

Digital Painting (Procreate)

🍂More art on my page🍂

[editorsusan]

At work this week I've been training to learn a new task - producing dynamic digital editions. This is a process that Janice has pioneered for the company over the past couple of years, and it has grown to the point where more people on our team need to know how to do it as the need for it expands.

So far McClatchy is using these in about a dozen of its products, but we'll gradually be adding more until all of the products are using it (I think?). I don't understand all the details yet, but I'm learning.

I've enjoyed learning this because it's about the closest I'll probably be able to get anymore to doing anything remotely related to page design (which I enjoy), and it's a new software system to learn (PageSuite), and I enjoy doing that, too.

The biggest downside to working dynamic edition shifts is the late hours; I've been on 4pm to midnight for the training, and the regularly scheduled shifts can be until as late as 2am (in my time zone).

I used to work until midnight quite regularly back in the old days of the Bee copy desk, but with all the evolution of our work processes, it has been years since the last time I worked any later than about 9:30pm. So working until midnight has been an adjustment - it's an entirely different lifestyle being on swing shift versus day shift.

I never minded being on swing shift before, but it's the switching back and forth between the day/swing shift that can become a grind. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

Anyway, here's a thumbnail of one of the digital editions I worked on last night. These dynamic editions are made to resemble regular newspaper pages, but the biggest difference is that the stories don't have to fit the space. The stories usually are longer than the space, and when a reader is looking at these (as I understand it), they just click on the story and it opens the full story in another window. When they're done reading that, they close the story window and return to the dynamic page (or pages) to continue reading.

This is McClatchy's strategy to give newsrooms a chance to push out fresher news (they can select up to 20 of their top stories per day, but most use fewer than that) to their readers with later deadlines than the print editions have. Janice could explain all of this much better than I can. I think of the dynamic editions as kind of a hybrid between the print product and the newsroom's website. So yes, readers can still just go directly to the website for the latest news, but the dynamic edition sort of connects the latest news to the product's daily e-edition.

As you can see, we don't have to follow the same character-count standards here for headlines that we use for the print editions. And because these pages are 100% templated (we have zero ability to adjust the size of the articles), if a story is too short to fill the space, the only tools we have left to force the story to sort of fit are to make the headline extra long (we can also add deck heds, but I didn't try doing that yesterday) or else manually recrop the photos to be more vertical in the hope that those actions will push the text down far enough to fill the hole on the page.

The current software functionality is pretty limited, but I hear that we're expecting to get a software upgrade of some sort next year that might give us more tools/control.

[2dye4neisha]

Quick Guide To Making Art Photos With The Holga Film Camera – Light Stalking

Quick Guide To Making Art Photos With The Holga Film Camera

[manusart]

There are places that would like to remain secretly hidden inside you, but then you realize that sharing the emotions they convey is even more exciting! #vietnam #vietnamtravel #ladybuddha #japanesegarden #vietnam🇻🇳 #travel #traveling #learning #abroad #nobarriers #cultures #learningnewthings https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmsfq3LIgW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stevedigitalw0rld]

Digital vs. Affiliate

What’s The Difference?

We discuss what I have learned about the differences through the Roadmap course and what my interpretation is on the two.

#digitalmarketingforbeginners2024 #affiliatemarketingforbeginners2024 #roadmap #learningnewthings #whichisbetter

[beckydoyon]

Playing around with a new app

#blackandwhite #doodle #doodling #doodles #doodleart #horrorartist #beckydoyon #artwork #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #artofinstagram #practice #treeart #learning #learningnewthings #learningneverstops #learningnewskills #whiteandblack #artvideo #artvideos #artprocess #artprogress #artforfun #artistlife #maineartists #maineartistsofinstagram #artlover #instaartist #digialart

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[clarymeadowsalpacas]

Dominic , one of last years cria - halter training and doing very well - have a great weekend from @clarymeadowsalpacas #alpacas #alpaca #alpacababy #cria #babyboy #training #alpacafarm #alpacawalking #derby #derbyshire #peakdistrict #southderbyshire #alpacalove #trainingday #newskills #leadtraining #halter #workinghard #learning #learn #listening #farm #farming #farmlife #visitourwebsite #alpacatrekking #readyforspring #learningnewthings #learningnewskills #alpacaofinstagram (at Derbyshire, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnrP6Sft4wR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theimprobabledreamersworld]

Eyestrain warning in place.

🎶There! Now you see. Everybody goes wrong and we put it in song so it's easier, to hear it. This puzzle's tough, I admit but in time we'll find where everything fits 🎶

This litograph was fun to make! Based on the episode 'Learning New Things About Ourselves' Another one that I adore! 💜 The puppets, the song, the character development... I could go on forever, it was so well done! 😊💜

Think my confidence is back now, and I'm really excited to get back into Litographs properly again now 😁

[thechaoticbookwyrm]

I can hardly believe it. . I made it to 200-days on Duolingo! . . #Duolingo #Learning #LearningALanguage #LearningNewThings #LearningGerman #sprechensiedeutsch #deutschland #AuthorsLearning #AuthorsWhoLearn #AuthorInProgress (at Fox Lake, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW7L2f7rcSZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[daniellepioli]

My very first embroidery. Learning the stitches and everything, so I made this. I have no idea what I’m doing but I guess I managed to make something! I was hoping to rest my hand yesterday, and I decided to experiment and see how my hand feels. It is a different sensation than drawing. It doesn’t hurt the same. Not completely comfortable, but they are different movements, which is good. I’m still going to experiment with other techniques to at least have a plan B if I need to stay away from drawing for a while 😓 Wish me luck! . . [Image description: Simple embroidery of a young woman with her eyes closed wearing a red witch hat, red lipstick, outlined in black and brown yarn. All slides show her in different angle photos.] . . . #embroidering #EmbroideryWork #LearningNewThings #ArtExperiment #CreativityArt #DaniellePioli #IllustrationEmbroidery #ArtEmbroidery https://www.instagram.com/p/CWLhLRUAK5r/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jmelam]

My first art vending event is at the Interstellar Night Market on June 30th!

I feel both excited and nervous. I'm sure I’ll make plenty of mistakes as a first-time vendor, but I’ll learn a lot too!

[afrikartworx]

Experimenting with lettering based on a tutorial by @nebenzu ,great fun to try🧡🐡🧡#artexperiment #learningnewthings #digitalart #redbubble/sana90 #instagramartist #afrikartworx (at Afrikartworx) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdPnuEK6A5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[stevedigitalw0rld]

How Good Is The Roadmap?

The amount of information packed into this course is overwhelming at times. You could literally be a janitor with zero experience outside of janitorial duties and start an online business with this course. (No shade at the janitors, one of my first jobs was a janitor 😉)

#digitalmarketingforbeginners #onlinebusinessforbeginners #roadmap #getstarted #learningnewthings

[dianehoffmaster]

Told myself 2 years ago that I’d learn ASL and finally forced myself to stop procrastinating and get it done. For the next 6 months I will be taking a sign language class and while I am a bit nervous about my ability to pass the exam at the end, at least I am finally committing to trying. I always give that advice to my kids, right? “Just try. Do your best.” Gonna take my own advice. Wish me luck... learning new skills at almost 50 is intimidating! #americansignlanguage #learningnewthings #continuingeducation https://www.instagram.com/p/CLO1m2zl6CR/?igshid=nrodb8pjadc

[agrawalaastha798]

How COVID-19 affected my life? Part- 1

Hello everyone!! Hope you are doing fine during this pandemic. Some of us are locked in our homes and others are set free. This pandemic has given time to us to realize who we are and what we want. Our priorities have been totally changed from being workaholic to spending some time with family. Almost all of us have started to learn new skills to enhance our personality in different areas which helps to gain a broader view of a problem which may come across at any moment in our life.              Yes there are some exceptions but not me. To help me develop my writing  skills I am trying to do a thirty-day challenge in writing. Let me start my first article on how COVID-19 has turned my life upside down.               I was in my final year of engineering degree but started doing training in a data analytics company as a data engineer. Life was good till one and quarter months when the situation started getting worse in my country due to Covid-19. I came back to my hometown and started work from home. At first, it seemed good to be back home and I thought I will be back to my office in April. But how on earth can this be possible? Lockdown started and getting extended from March to April, to May. But the days which seemed happier were no longer good now. I have to juggle between household chores to office work and have to keep everything on time. And what became worst, my family started to develop dependency on me for small things like giving water etc: Argument was no option as this had no effect on them through which I became emotionally unstable. As a result I became tired throughout the day and did no work. But now I am motivated enough to develop my skills these days to enhance my personality.    Want to know how this transformation happened? Wait for my second article!! Thanks for reading.

[switchywitchy333]

The Domme outfit for the night ☆