I learned a lot about online journalism in 2007, and I’m hoping 2008 is an even better learning experience.
Here are my New Year’s resolutions:
- Finish my PHP/MySQL book by the end of February and start my more advanced book by then. Finishing by the end of this month would be good, but I have a lot to work on right now.
- Be more social. I recently joined Twitter, and it has been a great experience so far. I have been on Facebook for years and del.icio.us for awhile now too, but I’d going to be using Flickr and Last FM more. You can find me on other social networks as well.
- Post more on other blogs. I have been doing this a lot better as of late, but there was awhile where I just posted on my blog and responded to my posters. I have enjoyed being a blogger more, and gotten a lot more traffic, since I started posting on other blogs regularly.
- Read The Elements of Typographic Style. I want to become a better designer this year and learning the ins and outs of typography will make a big difference. Typography has been largely overlooked on newspaper Web sites (as has good Web design).
- Become better at multimedia story telling. I know photography and audio, but I still have more to learn about merging the two together. I’ll be attending Poynter Jan. 13-17 for a seminar on online story telling with images and audio.
- Post more often. There were times last year where I would go 5-7 days without posting. I need to post more often (often shorter posts) and more regularly.
- Double my visitors by the end of June (1 year anniversary) and add five times more RSS subscribers.
- Become a better Web designer. Web design and CSS are my strengths, but I’d like to get even better by building more complex designs and figuring out ways around compatibility issues with older browsers (this is what makes CSS tough).
- Video. I have used a video camera before and done video editing, but this is the year I start doing video for my job. I hope it goes well.
What do you hope to accomplish this year?
