Five things you need to know about™. . . Twitter
A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.
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New media and video journalism
A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.
Continue reading ‘5 power tips for using Twitter for research’
Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.
One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.
Not sure how best to use Twitter for your newsroom or for yourself? You may want to register for this new Twitter Webinar I have just designed for the Paris-based World Editors Forum.
I, naturally, just tweeted the details but for those who follow this blog instead of @robbmontgomery the details, cost and links are included here.
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I will deliver three sessions on mulitmedia reporting at Wordstock in Toronto, Oct 3. 2009
We will cover the fundamentals of tech and technique all with a veteran journalist’s understanding and expertise in using these tools to produce compelling digital mulit media.
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Daily News Egypt is doing a good job of using Twitter to cover Obama and Clinton speech at Cairo University today
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Is it ethical for newsrooms and journalists to use “autofollow” scripts to inflate the followers of their Twitter accounts?
Please answer my poll.
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Fake TV journalist Stephen Colbert conducts a funny, yet fairly useful interview with Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. Twitter, Stone and to a degree, Colbert himself in this context, are all certainly victim of the “law of unintended consequences.”
The Colbert staff cleverly filed Tweets to Stephen’s stream while he was interviewing the guy who created Twitter. Stephen pretended to live Tweet and even post a tweetpic photo of Stone during the interview. Warning: Colbert intentionally mispronounces the word “Tweets.” He calls them “Twats,” for comedic effect.
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This media jobs project is called Media Professionals and is something I have been tinkering with off and on for a couple of years. Now is the time to take this jobs feed to Twitter and Plaxo where more journalism job seekers are going these days.
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