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    Breaking down barriers to reading news: 7 good questions with Newsela’s Jennifer Coogan

    Newsela is a less-than-a-year-old educational technology startup that uses news articles to teach reading comprehension to youth. What makes Newsela unique is that Chief Content [...]

    March 5, 2014
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    Planning for tomorrow’s 20-somethings: 6 good questions with youth researcher Danah Boyd

    Danah Boyd is a well-known and well-Twitter-followed scholar on topics of both youth and social media. She’s a principal researcher at Microsoft, a research assistant [...]

    March 3, 2014
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    Public-funded investigative journalism: 10 good questions with Israel Mirsky of Uncoverage

    Uncoverage is a new platform that will make it possible for people to get issues that matter to them investigated and analyzed by serious journalists. [...]

    January 9, 2014
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    The best strategies for creating specialized mobile apps

    Think about the mobile apps or websites your organization uses to reach the public, and ask yourself two questions: what do they do, and who [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Draw upon your community’s passions to design niche mobile products

    Thinking about any potential new product should start with identifying the audience and its needs. Consider the major annual events in your community, the popular [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Draw upon your staff’s passions to create niche mobile products

    Once publishers have an idea of the potential audience segments for niche apps in their market, they need to look internally at the resources and [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Adopt a user-centered design process to plan your niche mobile app

    If you aren’t familiar with user-centered design, you can infer a lot just from the name. It is a process that puts the intended users [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Unleash your hacker culture to get an app built

    Now you have a pretty good idea of a mobile product you might build. You know what your audience wants, what your staff can sustain, [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Make room for ‘beta’ app experiments to grow

    Steve Jobs famously told the team building the first Macintosh computer in the early 1980s, “Real artists ship.” That motto echoes as the delivery of [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    Obstacles you will face in creating niche mobile apps

    In the earlier chapters we have shown why targeting a niche audience with a specialized mobile product is a powerful model that fits the modern [...]

    December 11, 2013
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