Social Media 303 for Journalists: Cutting through the Clutter. This was part of a Social Media series for journalists presented by Robin J Phillips, Web managing editor of BusinessJournalism.org. The series was presented over three days for the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism.

1. Social Media 303 Cutting through the clutter Reynolds Center for Business Journalism Twitter: @BizJournalism facebook.com/BizJournalism Robin J. Phillips @RobinJP

2. What you will learn.. That you are not alone You have more power than you think Giving up is not a good idea Several (free) tools can be useful for filtering social media How to set goals, schedule time for your social media What you want and get out of social media is very personal You will never see it all .. and that’s OK

3. Who says journalists don’t like clutter?

4. Social Media clutter

6. Set some goals Increase number of followers. Increase impact – number of retweets, interaction, story ideas generated. Increase fan/friend count. Track analytics to understand interaction, activity on your page. Set a goal for number of uploads a month. Increase number of views on your videos by integrating with rest of SM network. Make sure your key contacts on your beat are also LinkedIn contacts. Find discussions that are most relevant to your beat and take part.

7. “ Instead of meeting for a cup of coffee, I shoot the breeze with some PR folks/sources on Twitter.” Story ideas | breaking news | beat checks | brand development

8. “ I tweet and retweet high-value news and analysis on the economy, sustainability and urban issues.” Promote blogs, columns | new trip wire | appreciate the speed

9. “ Twitter is only as good as the people who are on it.” Immediate | concise | different form of writing | good multimedia tool

10. Let go of feeling overwhelmed

12. Lists and hashtags

13. BizJournalists list

14. Narrow the field

15. Filter with hashtags Hashtags were developed to create groupings on Twitter.

16. Official, unofficial, conflicting #hashtags

19. Let go of some things

20. Be stingy with your attention

21. Right tool for the job Source: Twitter

23. keyword/ hashtag

24. #Madoff

27. Sidebars

30. Mobile tools

31. Find your own balance