These are slides for a program I will be doing for the Committee of Concerned Journalists and Georgetown University for visiting Portuguese journalists.

1. Social mediaand reporting Steve Buttry stephenbuttry@gmail.com Committee of Concerned Journalists Georgetown University #CCJPortugal August 30, 2011

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4. Getting started: Set up profile at Twitter.com Be sure to add bio, link, photo (later) Add mobile option (later) Tweet several times during workshop Choose people to follow (later) Twitter tips at stevebuttry.wordpress.com

5. Live-tweeting this workshop Straight reporting Commentary Links Photographs

6. Photo sharing

7. Document sharing

8. Link-sharing

9. Location-based services

10. Social blogging

11. Networking, travel

12. Curation

13. Live reporting

14. What’s next?

15. International tools

16. Social fame is fleeting

17. Social media uses Daily routine Find sources Breaking news Crowdsourcing Investigative reporting Report news Distribute content Personal & newsroom accounts

18. Short break

19. Many more users Much info private Tougher to search Not as immediate (less frequent updates) Engage, don’t intrude Great for breaking news Great real-time search Engagement not as intrusive Hashtags help w/ search, conversation

20. Connect w/ sources (balance, disclosure?) Check pages of agencies, people on beat Crowdsourcing (ask on their pages as well as yours) Look for people in the news Journalist page

21. Follow officials & agencies on beat Twitter Search (advanced) Hashtags (regular & spontaneous) NearbyTweets Breaking news Crowdsourcing

28. Before the big story breaks Follow lots of local people (NearbyTweets, replies, retweets, check followers) Join local conversation Master Twitter search (advanced) Promote local #hashtag taxonomy (#okstorm) Use Twitter routinely on your beat

29. Quakes and tornadoes Indonesia Twitter HQ, Virginia earthquake

33. When the big story breaks Twitter Search (advanced) Connect w/ witnesses Crowdsource Tweet early & often Seek verification Address rumors (say what you don’t know) Seek photos Converse Answer questions Thank contributors Promote fresh content Link to new reports (even competitors’) Be human (fun where appropriate)

34. @statesman case study

35. Crowdsource

36. Crowdsource

37. Say what you don’t know

38. Converse w/ public

39. Link to fresh content

40. Link to fresh content

41. Routine beat coverage Follow officials & agencies on beat Twitter Search (advanced) Hashtags (regular & spontaneous) Lists (Twitter, TweetDeck, HootSuite) Breaking news Crowdsourcing Liveblog (feeding in tweets)

42. People to follow Look for sources (find people) Ask sources Journalists in other communities When someone follows you, check out to see whether you should follow back When you follow someone, check whom they follow Tweeps mentioned in interesting tweets

49. Ethical considerations How do you identify yourself? Ask skeptical questions Seek verification Ask question, don’t repeat rumor Correct quickly

51. Twitter chats for journos #ASNEchat, starting today, Tuesdays, noon ET (5 p.m. Lisbon) #wjchat, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. ET (1 a.m. Lisbon) #spjchat, Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET #jrcchat, Wednesdays, noon ET

52. NPR’s Andy Carvin “I think curation has always been a part of journalism; we just didn't call it that.” – quoted in The Atlantic by Phoebe Connelly

53. What is curation? Museum curator: Studies topic Chooses relevant content (other sources & museum collection) Authenticates Groups related items Provides context Presents exhibit Journalism curator: Studies topic Chooses relevant content (social media, blogs, staff) Authenticates Groups related items Provides context Presents collected content

54. Curation tools for journos Google & other search engines Twitter Search (advanced) Other Social media search Storify, Storyful, Chirpstory Blackbird Pie Quote URL

55. Curation sources Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube …) Blogs Staff content (current & archives) Other news media (yes, competition)

56. Authenticate & attribute Ask: “How do you know that?” Ask careful questions of crowd to help you vet & verify Check links, tweets & information on sources Link to original source Attribute

57. Try something new Twitter Facebook Storify Flickr YouTube Google+ Foursquare StumbleUpon Tumblr LinkedIn Quora Scribd

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