links for 2011-05-24

• Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process: Tech News and Analysis «
  Examples of curation during the BBC Social Media Summit.
  (tags: journalism socialmedia twitter curation teaching)

links for 2011-05-23

• New tools in news gathering: Curation and verification in journalism | memeburn
  Looking at tools for journalists.
  (tags: curation teaching verification)
• My notes from the BBC Social Media Summit
  A summary of numerous speakers at the BBC Social Media Summit. An excellent analysis by Martin Belam
  (tags: socialmedia blog social_media bbc)
• The Media Blog: Journalism: Is it ever 'just a numbers game'?
  A look at what drives people to particular news sites as well as further discussion about social engagement. An analysis of Raju Narisetti's comments at BBC Social Media Summit
  (tags: bbcsms journalism metrics seo washingtonpost teaching)

links for 2011-05-20

• KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado – Lost Remote
  KMOV-TV in the US used social media to spread news about tornados and damage quickly via social media, particularly facebook.
  (tags: socialmedia facebook crowdsourcing journalism teaching)
• #bbcsms – Cultural Change – One Man and His Blog
  An interesting summary of the first session at #BBCSMS with examples of how to encourage journalists to use Twitter and get involved with their wider community.
  (tags: twitter socialmedia teaching community)

links for 2011-05-19

• Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped | World news | guardian.co.uk
  James Ball referred to this map during his visit to Brighton Future of News Group
  (tags: journalism data news map)
• 5 Rules for journalists using Storify – storify.com
  Staci Baird's piece gives great advice on how to use Storify well. She gives good examples of best practise.
  (tags: journalism socialmedia journalists tools curation)

links for 2011-05-18

• What Journalism Is Like Now – Working With 2,000 Sources – NYTimes.com
  Further to the Neal Mann article I linked to on Monday, Mathew Ingram of GigaOm expands on the original observations and includes National Public Radio's Andy Carvin in his discussion piece.
  Ingram points out the tools are available to everyone, but journalists are needed to filter and verify.
  (tags: socialmedia journalism teaching)

links for 2011-05-17

• BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog – #bbcsms: Charting a course for social media research for journalism
  Julie Posetti points out that social media training is essential for journalists today, and I agree with her.
  The social media world is far more noisy than it used to be which means journalists need to have even greater understanding of how to use social media as a tool to reach an audience, develop contacts and source stories.
  (tags: journalism socialmedia research social_media teaching)
• Dear Journalists, This is The Title Search Engines Care About
  There is a great deal of pressure to get the SEO right and increase traffic to websites. A simple headline with useful key words does help, but as this post by Dominic Litten points out there is more to it than a "boring" headline. There are ways to keep the wit in a story if you have good site architecture, a good sitemap, internal links etc.
  (tags: journalism journalists seo headlines)
• Personal branding and the evolution of ‘innovative’ journalism | Joseph Stashko Personal branding and the evolution of ‘innovative’ journalism | Thoughts on the media
  An interesting post from Joseph Stashko as he looks at what would make a student journalist stand out. It has started quite a debate on his blog.
  (tags: journalism Brand personalbranding)

links for 2011-05-16

• Social media guidelines for journalists
  Mindy McAdams writes a great deal of common sense here about using social media as a journalist.
  For professional purposes I use Facebook as a page, it keeps things simple and protects my personal account with its high security settings.
  (tags: journalism socialmedia twitter facebook)
• BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog – #bbcsms: The new journalism is working with 2,000 sources
  Neal Mann puts a strong case forward as to why journalists should be using social media. There are still people who resist, but it's not just a broadcasting tool, it's a way to find stories, interact with other professionals and learn a great deal.
  (tags: journalism socialmedia twitter teaching)
• #citylocal Sustaining Local Journalism conference | a storify | Wannabe Hacks
  This Storify created at the Sustaining Local Journalism conference at City University London, shows just how useful this tool is.
  (tags: local storify journalism socialmedia)

links for 2011-05-13

• Insite » Blog Archive » Making the most of RSS: readers reviewed
  There has been too much doom and gloom about RSS feeds and it's good to read something showing how useful and well used they are.
  I know I use feeds, either reading them on Google Reader, or feeding into Twitter and Facebook accounts.
  (tags: journalism RSS)

links for 2011-05-12

• How do you make local news on Twitter engaging? | Metamedia
  Mary's article shows how the Norwich Evening News promoted its readers' poll on Twitter by being interesting and engaging.

  It is important to have a person behind a feed to give a publication a human voice and show you are listening as well as broadcasting.

  I still support the use of feeds though, as it is labour intensive to post every story up individually. I started using feeds for the newspapers I used to work on back in 2008, because there was no one to post when I was on holiday. It kept a new service alive.

  (tags: twitter localnews maryhamilton journalism newspapers socialmedia)

links for 2011-05-11

• 6 Best Practices for Media Companies on Facebook
  These six best practices underline what I try to do with the pages I manage. It is important for your page to be seen to be run by a human being, complete with feedback etc.
  I particularly agree with number 2, make a thoughful comment.
  (tags: facebook journalism newspapers media)