The first half of a class lecture; to be revised.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA RECAP
Journalism 320: Social Journalism
Dec 3 2013

2. You make your own networks
Who you follow | like | check in with every day

3. SOCIAL MEDIA HAS
3 functions
REPORTING | ENGAGING | SHARING

4. REPORTING
• Surveillance: (Twitter | RSS | Key sites)
• Research: (Search | Niche hubs | YouTube | LinkedIn| )
• Gathering: (Delicious | Stumbleupon | Spundge)
• Crowdsourcing: (Andy Carvin: crowdsourced newsroom)
• Verifying: (Storyful | Twitter | niche sites)

5. ENGAGING
• You engage to listen and to be heard
• Leaving comments and answering comments on
Facebook, news sites, other social media
• Tweeting, retweeting, tweeting at, twitter lists
• Remixing professional and amateur content (Zeega |
Storify )
• Covering live, real time events

6. SHARING
• Distributing links to what you produce on the channels
where your followers are interested in the subjects you
cover.
• Posting links to good information, whether you created it
or not
• Curating and aggregating the best information about a
particular subject

7. LinkedIn
• Your online resume, easily found
• Simple blogging platform for professionals
• Job searching network
• Excellent tool for locating sources
• Visualize your network on LinkedinLabs|InMaps

8. Analytics
• Wordpress.com doesn’t support Google Analytics
• Wordpress.org does provide a Google Analytics plugin
• Wordpress.com does provide its own stats info
• Good tutorial on Google Analytics

9. Mobile | Real-time
• Foursquare
• Geofeedia
• Ban.jo
• How journalists can use location-based apps as a
reporting tool (Poynter)