These are slides for a program I will be doing for the Committee of Concerned Journalists and Georgetown University for visiting Portuguese journalists.
1. Social mediaand reporting Steve Buttry stephenbuttry@gmail.com Committee of Concerned Journalists Georgetown University #CCJPortugal August 30, 2011
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4. Getting started: Set up profile at Twitter.com Be sure to add bio, link, photo (later) Add mobile option (later) Tweet several times during workshop Choose people to follow (later) Twitter tips at stevebuttry.wordpress.com
19. Many more users Much info private Tougher to search Not as immediate (less frequent updates) Engage, don’t intrude Great for breaking news Great real-time search Engagement not as intrusive Hashtags help w/ search, conversation
20. Connect w/ sources (balance, disclosure?) Check pages of agencies, people on beat Crowdsourcing (ask on their pages as well as yours) Look for people in the news Journalist page
28. Before the big story breaks Follow lots of local people (NearbyTweets, replies, retweets, check followers) Join local conversation Master Twitter search (advanced) Promote local #hashtag taxonomy (#okstorm) Use Twitter routinely on your beat
33. When the big story breaks Twitter Search (advanced) Connect w/ witnesses Crowdsource Tweet early & often Seek verification Address rumors (say what you don’t know) Seek photos Converse Answer questions Thank contributors Promote fresh content Link to new reports (even competitors’) Be human (fun where appropriate)
42. People to follow Look for sources (find people) Ask sources Journalists in other communities When someone follows you, check out to see whether you should follow back When you follow someone, check whom they follow Tweeps mentioned in interesting tweets
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49. Ethical considerations How do you identify yourself? Ask skeptical questions Seek verification Ask question, don’t repeat rumor Correct quickly
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51. Twitter chats for journos #ASNEchat, starting today, Tuesdays, noon ET (5 p.m. Lisbon) #wjchat, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. ET (1 a.m. Lisbon) #spjchat, Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET #jrcchat, Wednesdays, noon ET
52. NPR’s Andy Carvin “I think curation has always been a part of journalism; we just didn't call it that.” – quoted in The Atlantic by Phoebe Connelly
53. What is curation? Museum curator: Studies topic Chooses relevant content (other sources & museum collection) Authenticates Groups related items Provides context Presents exhibit Journalism curator: Studies topic Chooses relevant content (social media, blogs, staff) Authenticates Groups related items Provides context Presents collected content
54. Curation tools for journos Google & other search engines Twitter Search (advanced) Other Social media search Storify, Storyful, Chirpstory Blackbird Pie Quote URL
55. Curation sources Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube …) Blogs Staff content (current & archives) Other news media (yes, competition)
56. Authenticate & attribute Ask: “How do you know that?” Ask careful questions of crowd to help you vet & verify Check links, tweets & information on sources Link to original source Attribute
We’ll discuss the leading social tools for journalists: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, each strong for a few years now, and Google+, the newest (potentially) major player.
I’ll get the participants started on Twitter if they aren’t already, so they can live-tweet the class.
I’ll suggest different approaches for people to take in their live-tweeting
We’ll discuss different types of social tools.
After the overview session, we’ll do a session focusing on Twitter.
We’lldiscuss some examples of Twitter’s use for breakingnews.
We’ll also discuss the Denver plane crash that Mike Wilson survived and how the media missed an opportunity by not using Twitter.
The next several slides will illustrate points from my February case study of how @statesman used Twitter effectively in the story of the terrorist plane crash into the IRS building in Austin.
I’ll use the next several slides in a discussion of how Bill Doskoch used Twitter on a more routine (and amusing) daily story.
The third session of the workshop will deal with curation, specifically the use of Storify, as well as live reporting using CoverILive.
In the last session, I will give the class time to work on new tools. Each person will choose a platform he or she hasn’t used much before and work on expanding his or her profile and exploring its uses for journalists.