1. Digital and Social Tools for
Election Coverage

2. Live Campaign Coverage

3. On Liveblogging
• Short, frequent takes
• Curate content from a variety of sources
• Can be short or long-term
• Promote liveblog before, during and
replays on site & social media
• Make it interactive

4. Think Beyond Text
• Videos • Audio
• Photos • Tweets
• Slides • Source
• Social Media documents
• Polls • Maps

5. CoveritLive/ScribbleLive

6. Use What You Have
Updates in (time-stamp, reverse-chron
order) in your blog or story template

7. Live Event Prep
• Get names, titles in advance when
possible
• Set scene & your role
• Describe your circumstances,
vantage point: At event, watching on
TV, curating tweets
• Get background materials

8. Live Tweeting
• Mix play-by-play with context, background
• Pass on quotes, who is there, add in
photos
• Use tweets as your notes for later
• Note significant pauses and stops
• Check facts before you hit “tweet”
• Take questions, respond when possible

9. #Hashtags can…
• Group tweets from the same event
• Expand your audience
• Tap into a national conversation

11. Add Readers’ Voices Into Your Story
• Can pull in tweets, Youtube videos,
Soundcloud audio, public Facebook
comments, photos from Flickr & Instragram
• Curate local reaction to national events
• Combine local and national materials

12. Tracking the Campaigns

13. Search for Conversations
• Search.twitter.com/advanced
• Use keywords, location, hashtag

14. Organize Your Twitter Stream
Make sense of incoming tweets

15. Build/Follow Twitter Lists
Make sense of incoming tweets
Lists to build:
• Local/national campaigns
• Campaign reporters
• Local politicos, tastemakers

16. Finding who to list
• By subject/location: Twellow.com,
Wefollow.com
• Muckrack.com (for finding
journalists)
• Check out others’ Twitter lists
• Listorious.com

17. Facebook Search

18. Build Facebook Lists
• Follow politicians and campaigns without
“fanning” pages
• Group pages however you’d want

19. Reader-Contributed
Coverage

20. Google Docs
• Gathering info using
Forms
• Results flow into a
shareable spreadsheet
• Can do surveys

21. Collect Reader Contributions

22. Crowdsourced map: MapaList

23. Crowdsourced audio: Soundcloud