I will be leading workshops on Twitter this week for four newsrooms in the Bay Area News Group. I will use tips or techniques from many, perhaps all, of my #twutorial posts:
Step one for using Twitter as a reporter: Master advanced search
Use lists, TweetDeck, HootSuite, saved searches, alerts to organize Twitter’s chaos
Denver Post staffers’ #theatershooting coverage demonstrates Twitter breaking news techniques
Hashtags help journalists find relevant tweets and reach more people
Advice and examples on how and what journalists should tweet
9 ways to find helpful people and organizations to follow on Twitter
To build Twitter followers: Join the conversation, tweet often, be yourself
10 ways Twitter is valuable for journalists
Updated Twitter time management tips
Don’t be selfish on Twitter; tweeting useful information is good business
What’s the best way to view Twitter’s users? 16 percent or 30 million
Twitter data shows journos’ ‘burstiness’ boosts followers
#Twutorial guest post from Deanna Utroske: Tips for twinterviewing
#Twutorial guest post by Menachem Wecker: How to use Twitter to find the best sources
#Twutorial guest post by Jaclyn Schiff: How using Storify can help you find great sources
Getting started on Twitter: #twutorial advice for a friend
Should a journalist livetweet a funeral? If so, how?
Use Twitter for conversation about an event, not just promotion
How to verify information from tweets: check it out
In addition, these two posts that predate the #twutorial series cover some of the points I’ll make in the workshop:
Updated and expanded Twitter tips for journalists
I may use this Andy Carvin Storify acount as an example as well as this Denver plane crash.
Here are the slides for my workshop today (I may not use all the slides and probably won’t get to the case study that the last several slides cover):
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Welcome to California Steve! Bay Area News folks, here is a link to Steve’s schedule classes for today and tomorrow. Drop by if you can. https://sites.google.com/site/bangstafftraining/
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