Multimedia journalism

Multimedia Standards launches beta site

After an early release in May excited many, Multimedia Standards has officially launched in public beta. Built by Rich Beckman’s class at Miami UniversityUniversity of Miami*, this all-encompassing Web site has a little bit of everything for multimedia journalists. I can already tell this is going to be an excellent resource and community for all.

Users can listen to 10 different discussions from 13 of the top multimedia gurus in the industry via The Grid. Subscribe to a variety of RSS feeds from a carefully selected group of multimedia sites, works and organizations (including II … thanks for that!) Upload your latest project, or review and comment on others in the Critique section. Browse through recent multimedia events and multimedia awards. As I said before, this is definitely built to please everyone’s interests and needs.

Producer and recent graduate Greg Linch wrote a comprehensive summary of the site over at his blog, The Linchpen. Below is a blurb he wrote for the School’s Web site:

“There are plenty of Web sites and blogs devoted to multimedia journalism, and many of them are great. But there’s no single hub to discuss, share, critique, rate and learn about the field – including in-depth thoughts from industry leaders. That’s the hole Multimedia Standards aims to fill.

But what about the name: Multimedia Standards? The site offers none. Instead, we offer resources and opinions on everything from “what is multimedia” to “what is good multimedia” and beyond.

Users can listen to an international group experts in an interactive grid; submit and critique projects; find other sites on our resources pages and easily subscribe to them (we provide the RSS feeds); see upcoming events on our calendar; and read about upcoming contests and recent winners. User input, from critiquing multimedia projects to saving links in our Publish2 newsgroup (which feeds to the top-right homepage widget), is key and we plan to continue updating the site with more featured links.”

Congrats to everyone involved behind-the-scenes. I am excited to see this soon become an invaluable resource for all of us passionate about multimedia storytelling.

*Updated 9:30am EST 7/14/09 (Thanks, Greg – sorry about that!)

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