Journalism connection project teaches how to fail forward
About the Author A journalist for 25 years and an editor for 15 years, Janet Coats has focused on newsroom innovation and emerging media platforms. She is now the initiative manager for New Media...
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Are we missing something? Let us know additional steps you recommend to include in the Tweetup guide or suggest your list of Tweetups others should check out. Simply put, a Tweetup is a set time and...
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Lisa Skube and Jeff Lennan present the JA at RJI in April 2011. Photo by Karen Stockman. In last week’s companion post, Virtual variety served daily: the Journalism Accelerator cafeteria, we stated: We...
View ArticleTwitter’s Official Page for Journalists
Today in an e-mail from Twitter’s PR team, the company introduced Twitter for Newsrooms (#TfN), a compelling resource akin to Facebook for Journalists that will help optimize the platform’s reporting...
View Article#wjchat
#wjchat is a chat for web journalists on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. PDT. We talk about all things content, technology, ethics, & business of journalism on the web.” Source: @wjchat “What it is: Web...
View ArticleJA How-to: A four-step guerrilla guide to social listening
Investing time exploring social listening tools can help tune your business strategy, connecting the dots for greater profitability AND deeper audience connections. Image: Intersection Consulting Have...
View ArticleHow to Use Twitter for Business: An Introductory Guide
People are in more control over how they consume media and what messages they care to hear… This changing nature of consumers‘ shopping habits means that instead of continuing to push marketing...
View ArticleFollowerwonk
What’s it all about? Followerwonk is essentially a Twitter research tool. It lets you search specific Twitter bios for key words or urls. You can see who your followers are following, what lists they...
View Article10 Best Practices for Twitter for Journalists
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have become part of a reporter’s toolkit. Yet research shows that media outlets and journalists tend to approach these Web 2.0 services with a 1.0...
View ArticleJA Resource Q&A: A social strategy of “purpose and intention”
Former journalist Kimberly Wilson started SocialNewsDesk to tailor social media management to the quirks of a newsroom. She wanted to solve three problems she saw in newsrooms social media management:...
View ArticleTweetCharts
Enter any word, phrase, hashtag, URL or username and TweetCharts will return a comprehensive report, including data on reply, retweet, and link percentages as well as the most common words, most...
View ArticleMentionmapp
Mention Mapp is the perfect way to find relevant users by allowing you to discover who interacts the most with what you and they are talking about. Mention Mapp works by uploading users’ tweets and...
View ArticleJA Tech-Tips: Twitter’s API is changing in March – what you need to know
Twitter's API changes in March 2013, are you ready? Twitter’s API (application programming interface) has become so popular that it’s rare you don’t see a website that has a feed of Twitter content or...
View ArticleJA Network Profile: The Breaking News Network explores new ways of expressing...
Started in 2009, the Breaking News Network curates the media and blog feeds in 350-plus cities worldwide to create a real-time ticker tape of social-media-sourced news in each city. The noncommercial...
View ArticleJA How-To: Social tools you can use to grow your business
For JA's social expert Nicole Staudinger, monitoring social is a daily practice. Sharing our best practices with you, what tools do you think we should try? 2012 was a huge year for social. According...
View ArticleJA Better Practices: Sixth annual Free Press Media Reform conference inspires...
Hilary Niles weighs in at the "Building Better Media Policy Reporting from the Ground Up" strategy session in Denver, at the Media Reform conference. Credit: Lisa Skube In early April, JA participated...
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Get detailed and visual analytics on anyone’s tweets, retweets, replies, mentions, hashtags… Browse, search, filter and get insights on the people you follow and those who follow you … Monitor your...
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