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5 power tips for using Twitter for research

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Five things you need to know aboutâ„¢. . . Twitter

A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.

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5 tips for making better video reports

Robb Montgomery films scenes for a documentary in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Five things you need to know aboutâ„¢. . . Video Reporting

A quick tutorial to guide beginners in making better video reports.

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Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago's Carol Marin

Camp Video Journalism

I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.

Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.

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Which video camera should I buy?

Robb Montgomery at Camp Video Journalism Chicago
I get asked this question a lot by editors I advise and people signing up for the Camp Video Journalism workshops and it is a good one.

I usually will respond with a few turnback queries to determine the best answer for them: