social media as a reporting tool
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How reporters and editors can use social media as a reporting tool when faced with breaking news or enterprise projects. Includes how to use social media and onsite tools to locate expert and "real people" sources, for "crowdsourcing” using advanced search features on major social media sites, and how to curate social media content to augment your own content.TRANSCRIPT
Social Media as reporting tool
by: @MistyMontano9NEWS Digital Content Manager
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SOCIAL REPORTING TOOLS
SOCIAL COLLECTIONS
MAPS
APPS
SOCIAL REPORTING TOOLS
Live by lists in both Facebook and Twitter
Know your hashtags
Don’t hesitate to ask for sources, story ideas
facebook graph searchFacebook.com/about/graphsearch
Searches words, phrases, location tags based on what you can see through privacy settings of others
facebook graph searchFacebook.com/about/graphsearch
Searches words, phrases, location tags based on what you can see through privacy settings of others
facebook graph search
facebook graph search
facebook graph search
facebook Trends
New feature available to a few users meant to compete with Twitter. Not a lot of information available yet on what makes a Trend.
facebook Pay to message
Pay $1 to make sure your message on Facebook is delivered to the “Inbox” instead of “Other”
Twitter: Trends
Twitter: Trends
Twitter: Trends
Twitter: AlertsTurn on Mobile Alerts
Twitter: Alertstwitter.com/coemergency/alerts
Find and vet potential news sources
Premium account will give you more results and a way to contact those that you’re not connected to on LinkedIn
Social collections
RebelMouse
Automatic curation of your social accounts & RSS feeds - Twitter, FB, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+
Searches and pulls chosen hashtags
Edit and arrange posts
Embed into website
Free & pricing plans
Social collections
Social collections
Tagboard
Automatic curation of social sites based on one hashtag Twitter, FB, Vine, Instagram, Google+
Free
Can request features, such as moderation, embed options
Social collections
Social collections
Storify
Search multiple social media networks and websites to manually add items to one social story
Free and business plans available
Social collections
Mapping to find sources
Bing Maps Twitter App
Banjo
Geofeedia
Apps
•FACEBOOK PAGE MANAGER
•TWITTER for single account
•TWEETCASTER for Android for multiple accounts
•TWEETBOT for iPhone for multiple accounts
•SCANNER RADIO: Listen to police scanners near and far.
•SOUNDNOTE- records audio and allows you to make notes that are linked into the timecode. (Good for logging interviews if you hit record on camera and iPad at the same time.)
Apps
•BANJO: Track social media chatter around breaking news locations near you or far away
•iMovie for iPhone: easy way to edit video
•Splice for iOS or Android: trimming, cropping video
•¡ENG: Multi-media platform where you can record video or still pictures then send them into the newsroom FTP seamlessly
•SocialCam, Viddy, Vine, Instagram: social video sharing
Apps
•Evernote for iOS, Android & web: the organizer of your life and perhaps also of your team
•Google Keep, OneNote, Springboard: alternative note taking and file sharing apps
•Google Drive for iOS and Android, syncs files across platforms
•Dropbox iOS: free, syncs your Mac and PC files
apps
•FLIGHT TRACKER: Tracks airplanes in the sky live through the camera lens with number of passengers make of airplane, origin and destination.
•PF AIR: Tracks airplanes in the sky live through the camera lens with number of passengers, make of airplane, origin and destination.
•LiveATC: Listen to air traffic controllers anywhere in the world
apps
•ROAD NINJA (IPhone): Terrific app to show food, lodging, & gas stations at exits while on the road.
•CAM SCANNER: snap pictures of documents and turn them into PDF’s for easy sharing
•JOTNOT PRO: scan documents to create PDF’s
•SAYHI: Universal translator
•DRAGON DICTATION: Dictate your notes with voice and it transcribes it for you
•VIRTUAL FIREFOX: for using Flash on iPad
Social Media as reporting tool
by: @MistyMontano9NEWS Digital Content Manager
slideshare.net/mistymontanonews