Presentation to the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Las Vegas on the importance of social media for journalists.

3. Old media

4. Reporter covering the session at SXSW on Media Armageddon: What Happens When the New York Times Dies. She’s got a laptop, cell phone, flip camera with tripod and a power strip to juice all those devices. New Media

5. Tech Blogger Leo Laporte with a Tricaster on his back The reporter is broadcasting live from a party with NewTek’sTricaster production studio in a backpack . He runs Twit.TV – an online technology broadcasting site.

7. So where to begin? The first step is to sign up for a G-mail account to access all the free Google applications and then subscribe to Google’s RSS reader. Also register your profile with Google. You also need Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Get a Flickr account for photo sharing. Get a Youtube account for video Flavors.me or Posterous gives you an instant blog presence Register at Digg and Stumbleupon for promoting content Get a Plancast account to promote events Get a Del.icio.us account for bookmarking favorite sites Sign up for Foursquare or Gowalla

8. Top iPhone Apps for Reporters Camera Plus Pro Twitpic QIK or QIK Pro Plus Cinch – iTalk Recorder Twitter, formerly known as Tweetie 2, Facebook and LinkedIn.com Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl, Where, Yelp Google Maps Dropbox Evernote Documents to Go by DataViz Awesome Note (+ToDo) Skype The AP Stylebook WordWeb English Dictionary & Thesaurus NYTimes App NPR App CNN Mobile 5-0 Radio Pro Police, Firefighter and EMS scanner Wolfram-Alpha Search Engine The World Factbook 2010

15. Twitter Tools for journalists Tweetdeckis a real time browser for Twitter. Twittertim.esis a real time personalized newspaper . Hootsuiteallows you to manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets . Twtpoll.com allows you to create polls or surveys, send them out on Twitter . Twtvite- organize and find local tweetups – real world events organized on Twitter. Twubs – identifies hashtags for various events. Hashtag is just the # symbol followed by a term describing a topic to a post. Wefollow - directory by city and subject matter. Twitter search - http://search.twitter.com/ - the search engine . And for more advanced searching try http://search.twitter.com/advanced Localtweepshttp://localtweeps.com/ find people on Twitter by zip codes. Ranks the most popular cities by twitter See handout or visit TechChi.com for the rest!

16. Facebook Nation More than 400 million active users 50% of its active users log on to Facebook in any given day Average user has 130 friends People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

18. Searching the social web Bing/Google Twitter Search – used to be summize.com. Check out the advanced site. Topsy.com for Twitter YourOpenBook.org – lets you search Facebook Searching Facebook Groups Searching LinkedIn Groups/networks

19. More search sites Technorati.com – searchable blogger database Zabasearch.com – for info on anyone Pipl – a searchable database of people Network Solution’s Whois registration Internet Archive for finding defunct web sites Zillow – for searching real estate Classmates – for school buddies Sec.gov – Edgar database of public filings Pacer – Public Access to Court Electronic Records Zipwho and Zipskinny – census data by zip

24. Other Interesting Sites Animoto.com Freephonebooth.com Tripit Gist Spezify.com

26. Scan Me

27. The future is so bright

28. Ignore social media at your own peril