social media, journalism & climate change in africa: presentation
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Social media for journalists and how e-tools can help cover an issue like climate change in Africa. Part of the Africa Adaptation Programme journalism workshop, a training delivered to journalists in Lesotho.TRANSCRIPT
Social Medias & Tools for Journalists
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Africa Adaptation ProgrammeMaseru, 22 February 2012
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Introduction Agenda
1. Introductions
2. Social media & journalism – contexts & trends
3. How social media tools may help cover an issue like climate change
4. workshops & practice!
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@AgnesLesage
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Skype?Facebook?
Twitter?LinkedIn?
Personal blog?Corporate / media blog?
YouTube?FlickR?
OpenStreetMap?Google Alerts?
RSS?…
Quick Poll
Web 2.0 stories?
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Social Media 4 you:One word in your mind?
How do you use it?Biggest frustration?
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slideshare.net/agneslesage
Objectives
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How social media is penetrating Africa & the world of newsWhy other journalists fear – or like using social mediaHow social media can help you better cover a topic like Climate Change
• How to join a community & connect with authorative people• Ways to source stories, opinions, alerts• Ways to dig into the data & get a lot of material – for free• How to publicize your work and gain influence
What you will lean© Universiteit Leiden
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Social Media An online technology or practice
That lets us share content, opinions, insights, experiences, media
and have a conversation about the ideas we care about
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Context & trendsDefinitions
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Context & trends The social media revolution
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Accelerating change
It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people... • TV……………13 years• Internet……4 years• iPod…………3 years • Facebook… 2 years
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Context & trendsSocial Media in Africa
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Check the story of chief Kariuki in Lanet Umoia, 100 miles from Nairobi.He says even the thieves in his village follow him.
Social Media would not apply in Africa?
Kariuki's official Twitter page shows 300 followers, but the former teacher estimated that thousands of the 28,000 residents in his area receive the messages he sends out directly and indirectly.
He said many of his constituents, mostly subsistence farmers, cannot afford to buy smart phones, but can access tweets through a third-party mobile phone application. Others forward the tweets via text message.
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433 Mns have a mobile subscription (53%)0.2% subscribe to fixed broadband net
Lesotho:39% have a mobile subscription3.9% are internet usersSource Worldbank 2010
“Facebook über alles”Africa: 38 Mns Facebook users
South Africa: 4.8 Mns (#2 after Aegypt)
Lesotho: 28 980 users (1.5% of population, 37% of online)Source: SocialBakers.com
“How Africa Tweets”South Africa #1 (43% of all tweets, twice above Kenya)
60% of users in their twenties57% of tweets sent from mobile phones80% use primarily to communicate with friends68% say they also use to monitor newsPdt Kagame tops with 44,000 followersSource: Portland Com.& Tweetminster, based on 11.5 million "geo-located" tweets in 2011 Q4
Linked InSouth Africa: 1Mns users (of 100Mns in the world)
Facebook Twitter
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433 Mns have a mobile subscription (53%)0.2% subscribe to fixed broadband net
Lesotho:39% have a mobile subscription3.9% are internet usersSource Worldbank 2010
“Facebook über alles”Africa: 38 Mns Facebook users
South Africa: 4.8 Mns (#2 after Aegypt)
Lesotho: 28 980 users (1.5% of population, 37% of online)Source: SocialBakers.com
“How Africa Tweets”South Africa #1 (43% of all tweets, twice above Kenya)
60% of users in their twenties57% of tweets sent from mobile phones80% use primarily to communicate with friends68% say they also use to monitor newsPdt Kagame tops with 44,000 followersSource: Portland Com.& Tweetminster, based on 11.5 million "geo-located" tweets in 2011 Q4
Linked InSouth Africa: 1Mns users (of 100Mns in the world)
Facebook Twitter
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• Built in the aftermath of the Kenyan 2008 elections• Now an open source tool for thousands mapping projects. Also exists on crowdmap.com for instant use • Reporting crime, bribes, floods, covering election monitoring, humanitarian crisis… The Ushahidi platform is used for everything from social activism, citizen journalism, crisis reporting, public accountability campaigns, …
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Zoopy.com is the 1st South African images, videos & podcasts sharing network.
Zoopy's content covers topics ranging from news to vox pops interviews, movie reviews, fashion and entertainment.
Got investment fm Nokia, Vodacom, and became Mail & Guardian’s Online video delivery partner
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MXit – A South Africa-based mobile social network. Over 50 million registered users in 120 countries, adding over 35,000 every day.More than 750 millions messages sent a day.10 million active users in SA
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The Grid - a South African miobile-based social network that keeps track of your location
Mobile & geolocalized
Context & trendsSocial Media & journalism
The first « reporting » of recent major news events came from social media, including:-Eathquake in Haïti-Disputed elections in Iran-Death of Michael Jackson
From: Social Media & the future of news, Rick Hancock
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“How Africa Tweets”68% say they use twitter to monitor news
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Journalism 1.0 Journalism 2.0
AudienceViewersReadersCustomers
Community
See journalism 2.0, the future of news – Rebecca MacKinnon - www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org
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Journalism 1.0 Journalism 2.0
See journalism 2.0, the future of news – Rebecca MacKinnon - www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org
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Conversation
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Journalism 1.0 Journalism 2.0
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Lecture
Passive consumers
One to many
Elite professionals
Corporate, autocratic
Remote voice
Reflection
Traditional sources
Little competition
Conversation
Empowered users
Many to many
Grassroot, trusted peers
Democratic, collaborative
Personal voice
Speed
Open sources
Massive competition
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Sharing is good !
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It is not (just) about technology, it is about connecting people
• Premium on sharing• Transparency• Conversation expected• Mistrust of traditional authorities & marketing people• Trust in peers, people like ourselves – even strangers• Credit / attribution given• Collaboration
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Journalists in 2.0
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Amateur: is passionate about the topic, but does not know the process.
Journalist: knows a lot about the process (journalism) but not about the topics
Source: Netlash
Where to start?
Social Media tools for journalists
http://financialsocialmedia.com
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Listening & connecting
What is up?What is hot?
Who is interesting ?What are they saying?
Making it live
Monitoring crisis/events
Crowdsourcing hints & stories
Interviewing
Sourcing Data & statistics
ImagesMaps
Evidence+
Verifying
Mobile reporting
Record pictures, audio, video
Publish on the go
Publishing & Sharing
Publishing/broadcasting
Blogging/ micro-blogging
Conversing
Sharing
Creating a blog / page on climate
change
Launching a debate
Influencing decision-makers
Mobile reporting
Record pictures, audio, video
Publish from the rural areas
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Listening & connecting
Connecting with the relevant people /
sources of info
Following related news
Understanding Climate change issues
Making it live
Monitoring environment-related
events
Crowdsourcing people’s stories
Interviewing experts
Sourcing Finding climate- related data &
statistics
Illustrating with pictures
Setting it on maps
http://www.whataretheywaitingfor.com/
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Listening & connecting
Search for sources
Install a search add on in your browser, like all-in-one search bar for Firefox.
Start with a search engine like Google, know to choose keywords and find articles or resources
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Listening & connecting
Search for sources
Install a search add on in your browser, like all-in-one search bar for Firefox.
Start with a search engine like Google, know to choose keywords and find articles or resources
Check a directory like DMOZ open directory project for reference links.
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Listening & connecting
Search for sources
Install a search add on in your browser, like all-in-one search bar for Firefox.
A blog search engine like Technorati or Digg will provide you articles and blogs and define the « autority ranking » of the blogger, as assessed by users.
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Listening & connecting
Search for sources
Install a search add on in your browser, like all-in-one search bar for Firefox.
A social bookmarking site like Delicious will provide you links to what other net users tagged with your keywords
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Listening & connecting
Search for sources
Install a search add on in your browser, like all-in-one search bar for Firefox.
Search your favorite news site for news, but also thematic issues and resources.
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Listening & connecting
Enrich your sources
Right click to open sites in new tabs – and bookmark your findings. Once you find a specialized site focused on climate change with a links
directory, chances are you will discover many new resources.
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Listening & connecting
Enrich your sources
Right click to open sites in new tabs – and bookmark your findings. Once you find a specialized site focused on climate change with a links
directory, chances are you will discover many new resources.
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Listening & connecting
Enrich your sources
Right click to open sites in new tabs – and bookmark your findings. Once you find a specialized site focused on climate change with a links
directory, chances are you will discover many new resources.
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Listening & connecting
Enrich your sources
Right click to open sites in new tabs – and bookmark your findings. Once you find a specialized site focused on climate change with a links
directory, chances are you will discover many new resources.
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Listening & connecting
Enrich your sources
Right click to open sites in new tabs – and bookmark your findings. Once you find a specialized site focused on climate change with a links
directory, chances are you will discover many new resources.
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Listening & connecting
Connect !
You won’t visit those sites every day to find out updates. So find the most suitable way for you to receive updates and important news!
My Climate Change bookmarks
Climate Change institutional sitesClimate Change Knowledge Portal (World Bank) Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)Country data for climate change (Lesotho) (World Bank)IPCC - intergovernmental panel on climate changeUN climate change Gateway (United Nations)UN Framework convention on climate change (Country Adaptation programmes) (United Nations)Climage pledges (UNEP)Climate change adaptation (UNDP)African Adaptation Programme (Lesotho profile) (UNDP)Southern Africa Regional Climate Change ProgrammeAfrican Adaptation Programme (UNDP) & AAP Baobab Coalition (facebook) (African Adaptation Programme)
Climate Change & Disaster reductionGlobal Facility for Disaster Risk& Reduction (GFDRR)Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate center portal and more linksUN international Strategy for disaster reduction (United Nations)PreventionWeb – information needs of the disaster reduction community (Lesotho statistics & risk profile as well as news feed)
More climate change resources & newsAlertnet Climate change information desk, climate-change related resources directory , and online course on reporting on climate change (Alertnet, Reuters)BBC Climate change hot topic as well as guideAfrica Adapt, sharing knowledge on mitigation practicesClimate & Development Knowlegde network (CDKN)Climate Ark – Climate change and global warming portalApps4Africa, a challenge on building apps to fight climate changeWWF climate change entry and climate newsGreepeace climate blog and climate change campaignSci-Dev network on Climate change & Energy…
You don’t need use all the services, decide the ones you use for what.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you’d rather use the internal RSS reader to subscribe to a feed. To view them, just open your favorites then « feeds ». Check a tutorial here:
http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/RSS-In-IE.html
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Listening & connecting
Organize your news feeds
You don’t need to read everything, but you will enjoy reading it when you like !
Understanding RSS feeds
Use an aggregator to follow your news, and set your personal dashboard. Use an aggregator like Netvibes to follow your news on a dashboard.
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Listening & connecting
Build a super address book &
do more
500 MnsAudience
People you know or know someone you know
Community
3 main social networks for journalists
Listening, sharing work, crowdsourcing
Journalistic advantage
Mechanics Connect with people or Like pagesRead /share on wall
On climate change
80 Mns
Colleagues, former colleagues, professionals
Networking, Finding authorative people
Create CVConnect with people / be introducedFollow & discuss w/ groups
190 Mns
People you don’t know but have common interestsOpinion leaders
Real time trends, listening, promoting work, crowdsourcing, finding sources
Create profileFollow / be followedShare, retweet, mention, converse
Share interesting pieces using sharing bookmaklets made available on the site/article, or use your own add-on like buffer app.
What is Twitter?• A social network to nurture your interests• Connect with people who share these interests• Discover information they found worth• Contact them, converse• Share your findings & thoughts
How to start?Set up your profile:• Choose a user name• Choose a theme / background and upload an avatar
• Define yourself and your interests in 140 charactersFollow people-Web sites you visit- Search twitter for users (or followwonk)- Search for tweets & follow their authors- Use Twitter suggestions
Be followed
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What is up? What is hot?
Who is interesting?Share/promote news
Monitoring issueCrowdourcing stories
using
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What is up? What is hot?
Who is interesting?Share/promote news
Monitoring issueCrowdourcing stories
using
Listen to the tweets• Read your wall or search
Twitter language• 140 characters only - Shortlinks are offered• Name the sources @username•RT = retweet• Use #hashtags
Start tweeting !• What is on your mind, what you are doing•Share your work, other people’s work & retweet• Engage in conversations• Monitor your audience with Chirpstarts or alike• Organize a community with Grouptweet
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What is up? What is hot?
Who is interesting?Share/promote news
Monitoring issueCrowdourcing stories
using
Explore Twitter on climate change:• Search on issues , using keywords and hashtags#climatechange # globalwarming #biodiversity #environment #solar #eco #environment #green #lesotho, #africaGoogle your hashtag, Check hashtags.org , -Tagdef.com ,Tagref•Seach people – use Followerwonk to be faster•Follow the trends (see below)•Organize a dahsboard with seesmic , marketme or monitter
Sourcing
Data & statistics
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Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)• Country data for climate change (World Bank)• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)• UN data (Lesotho)• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
Sourcing
Data & statistics
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Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)• Country data for climate change (World Bank)• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)• UN data (Lesotho)• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
Sourcing
Data & statistics
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Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)• Country data for climate change (World Bank)• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)• UN data (Lesotho)• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
Sourcing
Data & statistics
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Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)• Country data for climate change (World Bank)• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)• UN data (Lesotho)• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
Sourcing
Data & statistics
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Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)• Country data for climate change (World Bank)• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)• UN data (Lesotho)• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
Sourcing
Images
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Common Creative sources• Understanding Image rights
• Google images: advanced search for images, clipart, infographics• Flickr advanced search for images• Common creative with more sources•GettyImages with royalty free or rights managed images
Be fair: Always attribute the credits
Sourcing
Images
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Common Creative sources• Understanding Image rights
• Google images: advanced search for images, clipart, infographics• Flickr advanced search for images• Common creative with more sources•GettyImages with royalty free or rights managed images
Be fair: Always attribute the credits
Sourcing
Images
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Common Creative sources• Understanding Image rights
• Google images: advanced search for images, clipart, infographics• Flickr advanced search for images• Common creative with more sources•GettyImages with royalty free or rights managed images
Be fair: Always attribute the credits
Sourcing
Infographics, videos, slides
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More illustration & intelligence sources:• Google images « infographics »• Slideshare presentations • YouTube videos
Captures screenshots with Windows 7 Capture tool or Printkey
Sourcing
Infographics, videos, slides
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More illustration & intelligence sources:• Google images « infographics »• Slideshare presentations • YouTube videos
Captures screenshots with Windows 7 Capture tool or Printkey
Sourcing
Infographics, videos, slides
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More illustration & intelligence sources:• Google images « infographics »• Slideshare presentations • YouTube videos
Captures screenshots with Windows 7 Capture tool or Printkey
Beeing precise, Telling stories
with Maps
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Open Streeet Map & Google Map Makers let you edit maps & add POIs for the community & share / embed your map. OSM is with a CC license .
Geocommons is a repository of open source maps
Worldmap & MapBox are Open source softwares to make maps
Beeing precise, Telling stories
with Maps
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Open Streeet Map & Google Map Makers let you edit maps & add POIs for the community & share / embed your map. OSM is with a CC license .
Geocommons is a repository of open source maps
Worldmap & MapBox are Open source softwares to make maps
Beeing precise, Telling stories
with Maps
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Open Streeet Map & Google Map Makers let you edit maps & add POIs for the community & share / embed your map. OSM is with a CC license .
Geocommons is a repository of open source maps
Worldmap & MapBox are Open source softwares to make maps
Beeing precise, Telling stories
with Maps
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Open Streeet Map & Google Map Makers let you edit maps & add POIs for the community & share / embed your map. OSM is with a CC license .
Geocommons is a repository of open source maps
Worldmap & MapBox are Open source softwares to make maps
Beeing precise, Telling stories
with Maps
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Open Streeet Map & Google Map Makers let you edit maps & add POIs for the community & share / embed your map. OSM is with a CC license .
Geocommons is a repository of open source maps
Worldmap & MapBox are Open source softwares to make maps
CrowdsourcingMonitoring crisis / events
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Use crowdmap for a fast deployement, FrontlineSMS for mobile gateway, The Standby Task Force volunteers
BribespotBribespot.comBribespot is an app that allows you to see how much corruption is going on around. Using your smartphone (or a website) you can report locations where bribes are requested/paid, indicate the size of a bribe and area of government affected by it. By accumulating data from thousands of anonymous users, we turn isolated users into powerful movement against corrupt individuals and institutions.
CrowdsourcingMonitoring crisis / events
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Use crowdmap for a fast deployement, FrontlineSMS for mobile gateway, The Standby Task Force volunteers
TracFMhttp://tracfm.nyaruka.com/In Uganda, Trac FM involves people in monitoring service delivery in their community through radio polls. Responses to the polls are instantly visualized in the radio studio so talk-show hosts can discuss the data with their guests and give feedback to listeners on what is happening on the ground.
CrowdsourcingMonitoring crisis / events
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Use crowdmap for a fast deployement, FrontlineSMS for mobile gateway, The Standby Task Force volunteers
Water for peoplehttp://watermapmonitordev.appspot.com/Millions of dollars are wasted every year on tens of thousands of water systems around the world that break, become abandoned and prove to be unsustainable. Using Android cell phones, combined with GPS and Google Earth software, FLOW gives community members, partners, volunteers, and others the ability to record data: location, service status, images, and other information. This data is then displayed online to signal whether a project is up and running, broken, or on the verge of disrepair and requiring maintenance.
Also interesting: Solutions for water.org
Farming community information
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Adapting to climate change takes information sharing on best practices , wheather and markets. A number of initiatives have been launched in Africa, Latin America & India, using the web and mobile communications.
http://www.goteo.org/project/sauti-ya-wakulima?lang=enhttp://sautiyawakulima.net
See also: ICT, climate Change & development (and case studies) from Nexusresources below
Making it LiveFollowing
trends
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Google Insights: on search history & geographyWhat the trend: live / daily trends by location Trends Map , Nearbytweets or Twittervision: Follow live Twitter trends
Making it LiveFollowing
trends
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Google Insights: on search history & geographyWhat the trend: live / daily trends by location Trends Map , Nearbytweets or Twittervision: Follow live Twitter trends
Making it LiveFollowing
trends
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Google Insights: on search history & geographyWhat the trend: live / daily trends by location Trends Map , Nearbytweets or Twittervision: Follow live Twitter trends
Making it LiveBe first to know
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Google alerts will deliver you updates as they happen, once a day or once a week on selected keywordsTweetbeep lets you receive daily tweet resumes on selected keywords, hashtags or users you wosh to followFeedmyinbox does the same, and can also include RSS feeds. Google Public Alerts (newly launched) will alert users to any unforeseen events that is happening in their area such as tornadoes, floods, thunderstorms and blizzards.
Making it LiveBe first to know
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Google alerts will deliver you updates as they happen, once a day or once a week on selected keywordsTweetbeep lets you receive daily tweet resumes on selected keywords, hashtags or users you wosh to followFeedmyinbox does the same, and can also include RSS feeds. Google Public Alerts (newly launched) will alert users to any unforeseen events that is happening in their area such as tornadoes, floods, thunderstorms and blizzards.
Making it LiveLive Interviews
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Connect with the right persons and make your interview online for free with Skype.
Go blogging !
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Your blog will be the central engine of your online presence, enabling you to express yourself, demonstrate your expertise, converse with your audience, share on other platforms. Create a blog easily with Wordpress.com, or Blogger, Get your page up and share easily on Tumblr or Stumble Upon.Micro-blog on Facebook or Twitter .
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Your blog will be the central engine of your online presence, enabling you to express yourself, demonstrate your expertise, converse with your audience, share on other platforms. Create a blog easily with Wordpress.com, or Blogger, Get your page up and share easily on Tumblr or Stumble Upon.Micro-blog on Facebook or Twitter .
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Your blog will be the central engine of your online presence, enabling you to express yourself, demonstrate your expertise, converse with your audience, share on other platforms. Create a blog easily with Wordpress.com, or Blogger, Get your page up and share easily on Tumblr or Stumble Upon.Micro-blog on Facebook or Twitter .
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Your blog will be the central engine of your online presence, enabling you to express yourself, demonstrate your expertise, converse with your audience, share on other platforms. Create a blog easily with Wordpress.com, or Blogger, Get your page up and share easily on Tumblr or Stumble Upon.Micro-blog on Facebook or Twitter .
Be your own chief editor
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Content curation makes you stand out as an expert in your niche. Tools like Scoop it, Paper.li, curate.us are good for aggregating content, and sorting it into your own online newspaper. People will follow you, and also suggest content. Storify lets you assemble the best from social media. Pinterest is an online pinboard that lets you organize and share the things you like.
Be your own chief editor
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Content curation makes you stand out as an expert in your niche. Tools like Scoop it, Paper.li, curate.us are good for aggregating content, and sorting it into your own online newspaper. People will follow you, and also suggest content. Storify lets you assemble the best from social media. Pinterest is an online pinboard that lets you organize and share the things you like.
Be your own chief editor
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Content curation makes you stand out as an expert in your niche. Tools like Scoop it, Paper.li, curate.us are good for aggregating content, and sorting it into your own online newspaper. People will follow you, and also suggest content. Storify lets you assemble the best from social media. Pinterest is an online pinboard that lets you organize and share the things you like.
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Content curation makes you stand out as an expert in your niche. Tools like Scoop it, Paper.li, curate.us are good for aggregating content, and sorting it into your own online newspaper. People will follow you, and also suggest content. Storify lets you assemble the best from social media. Pinterest is an online pinboard that lets you organize and share the things you like.
On the go
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Mobile Media Tool Kit:http://mobilemediatoolkit.org
Find tutorials, case studies and tools to help you:Create, share, and deliver content through mobile phones, engage your mobile audience and secure your mobile device.
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Listening & connecting
Making it live
Sourcing
Mobile reporting
Publishing
Workshops: practising social media tools
- Open your personal account on Twitter.com, create your profile-Find whom to follow related with CC.Search twitter on #climatechange-Search followerwonk- When you visit blogs / sites related with CC, check if you can follow them on twitter. - Send your first tweet!- Create a weekly alert on Feedmyinbox or tweetbeep
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- Open a personal account on Netvibes , Google reader or iGoogle to create a newsboard on CC-Search for CC- related sources within that tool- Visit CC-related sites and choose RSS feeds to include-- Find a few gadgets. -- Do the same with Lesotho news and ones covering your other interests (on separate tabs)- Share a tab with a colleague (Netvibes)
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- Use your personal account and create a facebook page or group for Aap Lesotho. -Check the settings, fill the info- Invite some friends to this page. -Find CC-licensed pictures from Lesotho on FlickR and Google Images. And publish them on Facebook. -Publish a post on the field trip. - Add a survey to the page.
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- Open an account on Wordpress or Tumblr-Choose a name, URL, baseline-Customize your theme- Publish a post
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- Open an account on Scoop It-Choose a topic related with climate change-Add / Manage your sources- Scoop some articles
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Resources
Take Aways (inluding the cookies)
www.atable.com
Climate Change data & info:
Climate Change institutional sites
Climate Change Knowledge Portal (World Bank)
Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)
Country data for climate change (Lesotho) (World Bank)
IPCC - intergovernmental panel on climate change
UN climate change Gateway (United Nations)
UN Framework convention on climate change (Country Adaptation programmes) (United Nations)
Climage pledges (UNEP)
Climate change adaptation (UNDP)
African Adaptation Programme (Lesotho profile) (UNDP)
Southern Africa Regional Climate Change Programme
African Adaptation Programme (UNDP) & AAP Baobab Coalition (facebook) (African Adaptation Programme)
Climate Change & Disaster reduction
Global Facility for Disaster Risk& Reduction (GFDRR)
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate center portal and more links
UN international Strategy for disaster reduction (United Nations)
PreventionWeb – information needs of the disaster reduction community (Lesotho statistics & risk profile as well as news feed)
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More climate change resources & news
Alertnet Climate change information desk, climate-change related resources directory , and online course on reporting on climate change (Alertnet, Reuters)
BBC Climate change hot topic as well as guide
Africa Adapt, sharing knowledge on mitigation practices
Climate & Development Knowlegde network (CDKN)
Climate Ark – Climate change and global warming portal
Apps4Africa, a challenge on building apps to fight climate change
WWF climate change entry and climate news
Greenpeace climate blog and climate change campaign
Sci-Dev network on Climate change & Energy
Open Data Sources:• Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)
• Country data for climate change (World Bank)
• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)
• UN data (Lesotho)
• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)
• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)
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Twitter, Trendsmap, Monitter, Tweetmeme,Trendistic & more ways to track trends, nearbytweets, etc
YouTube video search
Flickr images (advanced search for creative commmons) & getty images (royalty free or rights managed)
Google Images search and advanced search for free images
Creative Commons Power search for free images
Google Insight for searches and use for journalists & PR
Google News for news feeds
Google Alerts for news on selected keywords , and Google Public Alerts emergency alerts on google maps (explained)
SocialMention to search on blogs and social networks
Google reader tro aggregate news
iGoogle dashboard & news aggregator
Netvibes dashboard & news aggregator
Bloglines news aggregator
Technorati Blog search engine and blog authority, indexing 112 million blogs !
Check user names availability
Video on the social media revolution
« African » Social Media
Why the future of African journalism lies in social media , slideshare presentation
Social Media in Africa article & resources part 1 & part 2
Africa Social Media Pulse Check article
Afrigator (a South African aggregator of African blogs and news), (closed down in Dec 2011 but now on Twitter @afrigator
Zoopy (a YouTube/Flickr like service also out of South Africa) – made for mobile
Ushahidi (an SMS crisis reporting and mapping engine from Kenya).
Amatomou (a South African news and social media aggregator)
ForgetmenotAfrica brings email to every phone though etxt.
The Grid, geo-based social network
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sJournalism & social mediaJournalism, organizations:International Journalism Network , with interesting topics like disasters, citizen journalism, the environment, social networking, ICFJ anywhere online courses on digital media,
International Center for Journalism (ICFJ) with interesting resources on Citizen journalism and the coverage of disaster & crisis, environmental reporting (and much more)
Internews, empowering local media
Open Society Foundation and resources on social media
Center for Integration & Imprivement of Journalism - CiiJ: - Resources
Knight Citizen News Network
Citizen journalism & social media toolsIntroduction to mobile journalism tools
Mobile Media Tool Kit - how to use mobile tech to enable citizen media (create, share, engage, etc) – great case studies and tools
Mobiles in a box tools & tactics for mobile advocacy
Global Voices (Lesotho)
Spot.us: crowd-funded reporting
10 browser add ons for journalists media article
10 tools to improve your online journalism
Muckrack – journalist directory, alerts and more
Examples of journalism using social mediaSomalia speaks - Al Jazeera in Somalia
Snow storm in the Balkans – crisismapping by AL Jazeera & SBTF
How journalists innovate using frontlinesms around the world
Journalism & social media guides
8 ways to use social media in the newsroom
The journalist’s guide to Facebook (Mashable)
The Journalist's Guide to Twitter (Mashable)
Everything I Need to Know About Twitter (Mashable)
Social Journalism: Past, Present and Future (Mashable)
Social media self guide training for journalists with powerpoint
How Tumblr is changing journalism blog article
Zombie Journalism resources guides on social media
Digital Storytelling & mobile strategy blog article
Tips on crowdsourcing news blog article
How journalists can leverage social media article
Engage your community to power coverage self training guides
10 ways journalism schools are teaching social media (Mashable)
Writing for the Web – how users read Web articles
Newbie: 12 Tips for Twitter users
SocialBrite guide
Gaining more web skills
Learning 2.0 on blogging, RSS, wikis, podcasts…
Itrainonline on multimedia, web development, searching the internet etc
Deep Web searching tools
Center for earnign and performance technologies : top 100 tools
ICT Hub Knowlegde base and how to increase IT skills in an organization
Starting on Twitter from Beth
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ICT for climate change & development:
ICT, climate Change & development (and case studies) from Nexus
MobileActive, mobile technology for social impact
Ushahidi and Crowdmap crisismapping tools : ex : Samoa incident reporting,
FrontlineSMS, mobile technology for social change
Kiwanja Mobile Application Database (from the founder of FrontlineSMS)
SMS in action, a map of SMS based initiatives for development
Mobile Active case studies
E-agriculture portal
Solutions for water.org project
Water for People project
Projet Sauti Ya Wakulima for farming in Tanzania
Information helps combat food insecurity in Kenya article (and more)
Farmers in Peru share organic expertise via internet article
Kabissa, networks for civil society groups using ICT for change
Lesotho Media :
Country profile:
Lesotho Media Profile from EISA
Lesotho Newspaper & News Media Guide by ABYZ
Lesotho Media by Map of the workd
Media:
Sunday Express
Lesotho Time
Lesotho News Agency
Informative News
PCFM
Mo Africa FM
Public Eye
News Feeds
EIN Lesotho News Feed
Google News for news feeds
Reuters Lesotho News Feed
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