J-Learning.org, a how-to digital handbook for designing, launching and sustaining an online community news site was launched today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.
The Web site offers 20 chapters and more than 60 subsections of basic skills training on how to plan a site, build it, use the latest off-the-shelf software to add online features, and then market it and track users.
"J-Learning is designed to be a comprehensive tool that any layman, student or fledgling new media person could use to launch a local news Web site," said Jan Schaffer, J-Learning.org's executive editor.
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