Comments on: Tips on saving your online clips (in case your employer’s web site disappears) http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/ A Denver web developer and journalist's thoughts on local online journalism, community, context and storytelling. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:17:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: toner http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-29203 toner Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:22:24 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-29203 Thank you so much for these tips Joe. Thank you so much for these tips Joe.

]]> By: Joe http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-28834 Joe Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:44:25 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-28834 Hey Ryan, Andrew, thanks for the adds. Printing to a PDF is effective for sure. I had planned on a follow-up post with the suggestions from the comments and emails in it, but Danny Sanchez does a great job of that with his own follow up, How to Save Online Clips: http://journalistopia.com/2009/01/15/how-to-save-your-online-clips/ Hey Ryan, Andrew, thanks for the adds. Printing to a PDF is effective for sure.

I had planned on a follow-up post with the suggestions from the comments and emails in it, but Danny Sanchez does a great job of that with his own follow up, How to Save Online Clips: http://journalistopia.com/2009/01/15/how-to-save-your-online-clips/

]]> By: Al Rightguy http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-28827 Al Rightguy Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:39:22 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-28827 I've been saving the pages, simply by clicking Save in the File menu. It stores all the text, images etc to your hard drive pretty flawlessly. I've even been able to email clips saved in this fashion. As far as I can tell it works perfectly I’ve been saving the pages, simply by clicking Save in the File menu. It stores all the text, images etc to your hard drive pretty flawlessly. I’ve even been able to email clips saved in this fashion. As far as I can tell it works perfectly

]]> By: Danny Sanchez http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-28826 Danny Sanchez Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:56:50 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-28826 What a great post Joe! Sage advice here. What a great post Joe! Sage advice here.

]]> By: Ryan Sholin http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-28825 Ryan Sholin Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:51:31 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-28825 I highly recommend two things: 1) Use a Firefox application like <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427" rel="nofollow">Scrapbook</a> that saves full Web pages, images, text, etc. perfectly intact on your hard drive. 2) Make friends with the page design crew at your paper, and ask them for PDFs whenever you publish something in print that seems clip-worthy. One more tip: Don't expect that great print clips are going to get you the job you want. Build your online news skills and market yourself as the future of the press, not the past. ;) I highly recommend two things:

1) Use a Firefox application like Scrapbook that saves full Web pages, images, text, etc. perfectly intact on your hard drive.

2) Make friends with the page design crew at your paper, and ask them for PDFs whenever you publish something in print that seems clip-worthy.

One more tip: Don’t expect that great print clips are going to get you the job you want. Build your online news skills and market yourself as the future of the press, not the past. ;)

]]> By: Andrew Bulkeley http://joethink.com/blog/2009/01/tips-on-saving-your-online-clips-in-case-your-employers-web-site-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-28824 Andrew Bulkeley Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:44 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=288#comment-28824 Just a view from the this-is-how-I-did-it-and-it-worked (for at least one financial wire): I used the "print" function on the web sites of publications I'd written for and, with the help of freepdf, created pdfs. This gave me the true, edited clips with branding from the various papers. Then, once again using freepdf, I bundled them all into a single pdf with my cover letter and resume and shipped them off. I also included my cover letter in the body of my email. Ultimately, I got a massive raise and didn't take the job. Just a view from the this-is-how-I-did-it-and-it-worked (for at least one financial wire): I used the “print” function on the web sites of publications I’d written for and, with the help of freepdf, created pdfs. This gave me the true, edited clips with branding from the various papers. Then, once again using freepdf, I bundled them all into a single pdf with my cover letter and resume and shipped them off. I also included my cover letter in the body of my email.

Ultimately, I got a massive raise and didn’t take the job.

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