{"id":374,"date":"2016-05-01T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:58:20","slug":"win-one-for-the-gif-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2016\/05\/01\/win-one-for-the-gif-fer\/","title":{"rendered":"Win One For the “GIF-fer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Knute Rockne evoked the name of George Gipp<\/a> at halftime of the 1928 Notre Dame – Army football game, I don’t think he had twenty-first century journalism in mind…<\/p>\n

But just like Rockne was trying to rally the troops, so too has a new tool rallied the internet world of sports journalism, the GIF…Pronounce it either way, like the peanut butter with a “J” or with a hard “G”, these short videos have captured the attention of readers\/viewers and made celebrities out if those who can master them…The Graphics Interchange Format…<\/p>\n

Just ask Pete Blackburn<\/a>… Blackburn writes primarily for UPROXX now and uses these short videos to enhance his ideas…In fact, people search for Pete’s videos as much as they do his writing…He recognized he needed something to drive the traffic and took a shot; “Nobody was coming to me to read what I thought about the Bruins because I wasn’t established in the field yet. \u00a0I figured I could say, hey, here’s something that I’m doing that no one else is doing. \u00a0This is a reason to come to me”…And it worked….<\/p>\n

This was our final sports journalism seminar of the semester and while we’ve tried to deal with many issues during that time my goal was really to open your eyes…It’s been comfortable for you here but the time has come to put what you’ve learned to work…<\/p>\n

I’d never met Pete before but couldn’t have agreed with him more as he spoke about where aspiring journalists go astray…”People can sense when you’re not genuine. \u00a0You have to be self-aware. \u00a0Are you funny? \u00a0If you’re not funny, don’t try to be because it won’t<\/em> be funny. \u00a0You have to be aware of what your strengths are. \u00a0If you’re funny, then go for it and make jokes. \u00a0If your strengths lay in numbers, or your strengths lay in being analytical, that will get you an audience as well. \u00a0You just have to realize what your strength is and then figure out how you can provide something that somebody may not be able to.”<\/p>\n

As some wise man once told you – “You do something better than anyone else in the world, you just have to figure out what that is”<\/p>\n

Finally, I was inspired…..I don’t have a PVR<\/a>, although I might just get one…So, I gave it a try…rudimentary, for sure, but as the title says, “It never gets old”…<\/p>\n

\n\/fshorr\/files\/2016\/05\/FQOHZk.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

As that (sometimes) wise man also said, “If I can do it, you can do it”….<\/p>\n

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