10. 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
11. 2. Be conversational
• Talk to people (but remember you
are publishing with every statement)
• Ask questions (in general or directly)
• “Be yourself”
12. 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)
13. 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. ;-)
30. 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
31. Credits
• Kathy E. Gill, @kegill
• Creative Commons : attribution, non-
commercial, share-and-share alike
• Resources at http://wiredpen.com/