Links and slides for workshops on Twitter, ethics, social media, SEO and crowdsourcing

I’m spending this week at the Bennington Banner. I’m leading workshops each day (plus one Thursday at the nearby Manchester Journal). Here are the links and slides:

Monday: Using social media for journalism

I’ll repeat this workshop (with some Twitter worked in) Thursday in Manchester.

Facebook news-feed changes mean newsrooms need new engagement strategies

Correction on AP photos: Newsrooms don’t have rights to post them on Facebook

Pottstown Mercury’s wanted-poster-style Pinboard is resulting in arrests

I’m starting to like Pinterest: a digital scrapbook (but potentially a baseball card collection)

How journalists and newsrooms can use Pinterest

Helpful links for learning and exploring Pinterest

Google+ Hangout helps with video interviews

Slides for these workshops:

Tuesday: Journalism ethics in small towns

Links for this workshop:

Avoiding ethical conflicts in small towns

SPJ Code of Ethics

Journalists’ Code of Ethics: Time for an update?

Guiding Principles for the Journalist

Bob Steele’s principles and questions have guided journalism ethics well

Suggestions for new guiding principles for the journalist

10 questions to help make ethical decisions

Here are the slides for the workshop:

Wednesday: #twutorial for journos

We’ll discuss the techniques covered in my post on how the Register Citizen used Twitter in its coverage of cyber-bullying in a sexual assault case. The links at the end of that post will take you to other #twutorial posts, which cover other techniques we will discuss.

Here are slides for the workshop:

Thursday: Search-engine optimization

7 keys to SEO: How to help people find your blog

Dan Petty’s Basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Google Trends

Here are the slides for this workshop:

Friday: Crowdsourcing

Here are links to some crowdsourcing examples I will be using (I might not get to all of them, depending on directions the discussion takes):

Guardian project on MP’s expenses

Morning Sun crowdsourcing on winter storm

Crowdsourced flooding map

#wheretheyserved map

Guardian coverage of meteor explosion

Atlantic coverage of meteor explosion

Here are helpful links for crowdsourcing (what are some other links I should include?):

Lessons from the Guardian’s expenses crowdsourcing project

Daniel Victor explains a project that used crowdsourcing

Crowdmap

5 ways to crowdsource easily, legally & with quality (Jeremy Caplan)

Lisa Fernandez shares a crowdsourcing (or fetching) lesson

Crowdsourcing Hurricane Irene recovery map in Connecticut

Slides for this workshop (they will be updated by Friday):

 

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