I’m always keeping an eye out for simple lessons that people in local newsrooms can build on and adapt for their communities. To that end, here are seven “how-to” posts, most of which were published in the last month or two:

1. How to Create a Fun and Simple Online News Quiz — Engaging News Project
2. How to Dominate Video on Every Platform — Gary Vaynerchuk
3. How to Run a Successful Twitter Chat — Simon Owens
4. How to Build an Interactive Data Map with Barely Any Code — Storybench
5. How To Start a Magazine — Steve Daniels
6. How To Create Gifs of Live Events in Seconds — The Next Web
7. How Six News Organizations Are using Soundcloud — Journalism.co.uk

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