This afternoon I’m leading a webinar for my Digital First Media colleagues, Twitter improves your journalism.
It’s a primer for journalists who aren’t yet making much use of Twitter yet. Most of the points I will be covering are in my updated Twitter tips for journalists, my live-tweeting suggestions my advanced Twitter tips or Twitter time management tips (which could stand an update; will try to do that soon) so I won’t repeat them here.
I’ll also share some tips I’ve blogged about relating to accuracy and verification, as well as tips from Craig Silverman and Mandy Jenkins:
Eight Simple Rules For Doing Accurate Journalism
B.S. Detection for Journalists
I also mentioned my @statesman case study and Andy Carvin’s Storify curation.
Update: I answered questions for the webinar in a separate post. In the Jan. 5 webinar, someone asked about building a local following on Twitter. I also promised to post a link to Advanced Twitter Search.
Here are my slides for the webinar:
Hey Steve,
I would have loved to join in the webinar today. I registered, specifically came into the paper at this time of day for the webinar. I was unable to join because the session was ‘full’ mmmm. May I suggest not having a limit? I’ve attended many webinars, this was the first time this happened. I tried calling, for the listen only, the call dropped four times. So, here I am.
Also, unless I missed it, what would have been spectacular was to be tweeting comments during the webinar – assign a hashtag so everyone can be using the very tool you’re talking about during the webinar. I’ve been very active on Twitter, just joined JRC – at the Register Citizen. I was asked to do a guest post in June on the subject of social media and the journalist. I wanted to share it with you Social Media and the Journalist http://bit.ly/iAgvgl – Thanks! Hope to be able to join the next one and that you appreciate the feedback! Deb
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Thanks for your comment, Deb. I didn’t encourage a hashtag because this was a pretty elementary webinar where I was going to be introducing hashtags to some participants (but it’s a good suggestion, and I may do it, even if I do have to introduce the technique to some people). I apologize for the “full” message. I understood this webinar to be unlimited, but apparently it was capped at 100. I will be looking into that, and offering a repeat webinar. I also will be doing a more advanced Twitter webinar, which may be more appropriate to your experience level.
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Thanks so much Steve! Appreciate your feedback and thoughts 😉 I didn’t realize the today’s webinar was more introductory, so I will look forward to the next one either way. I will also look forward to meeting you next time you visit!
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