twitter for journalists
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Tools and tips for journalists and reporters using Twitter.TRANSCRIPT
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Twitter For Reporters
Seattle SPJ/ONA || 13 February 2012@kegill
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1. Tweet More• Understand the rules of your newsroom http://
www.businessweek.com/technology/complicating-twitter-and-journalism-11082011.html
• Recognize that your personal “brand” may be more important to you (long term) than the brand of your news organization
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2. Be conversational
• Talk to people (but remember you are publishing with every statement)• Ask questions (in general or directly)• “Be yourself”
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Develop stories
• Crowdsourcing: ask community for ideas or information
• If you ask someone a question in email or in person, figure out how to ask the question publicly on Twitter (or FB)
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Develop relationships
• Ask who to follow• Follow opinion leaders on your beat• Follow public officials on your beat• Follow other journalists on your beat• Then talk to them. ;-)
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3. Listen
What, exactly does this mean?
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#hashtags may be more important than individuals
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Tools To Monitor #hashtags
• HootSuite.com (iPhone app)• Nearbytweets.com• Topsy.com• Trendistic.com• TweetDeck• Twitter Search
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HootSuite : GeoLocation
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Topsy : email, RSS
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Breaking News
• Storify• CoverItLive• ScribbleLive• Embed individual tweets or a group of tweets
into a story using QuoteURL or Blackbird Pie.
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Verify! Verify! Verify!
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Other Tools
• Twitter Lists• Paper.li• Directories: twellow.com• muckrack.com• dev.twitter.com/media/newsrooms• Twitter -> email: twe.pe
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Resources
• Twitter tips for journalists, Steve Buttry• How should journalists use social media, Nick
Kristoff• The new baseline skill set, Steve Yelvington• On Twitter, neither a Luddite nor Biltonite
be. Simply be human, Alex Howard
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Credits
• Kathy E. Gill, @kegill• Creative Commons : attribution, non-
commercial, share-and-share alike• Resources at http://wiredpen.com/