Delicious Milk: How two tech tools routinely save my bacon, and my sanity

This is my quick contribution to this month’s Carnival of Journalism. The prompt for June is about lifehacks, websites, tools, etc., that allow us to work smarter.

I play with a lot of technology tools, but two — Remember The Milk and Delicious — are so central to my workflow that I truly have no idea where I would be without them.

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How I’ll teach community outreach at Mizzou

As much as I’m enjoying my RJI fellowship (lots of thinking. lots of quiet. not enough chaos.) I’m really excited to get back in a newsroom. If you ask me what I do for a living, I’ll say I’m a journalist. So I’m ready to be back doing journalism.

Next year, I’ll be back as an editor at the Columbia Missourian, this time in a new position. I’m going to take what I’ve been learning all year about community engagement and bring it into the newsroom, as a community outreach editor (or some other title yet to be discussed).

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