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Watch out if you're taking pictures.
23/02/2011
22/02/2011
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A common-sense guide to verifying Tweets. It also underlines why it is important to have a website, biography and picture on your Twitter account if you want to be taken seriously.
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Just the sort of thing needed for mapping locations using postcodes.
21/02/2011
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Facebook pages are changing to look more like profiles. This is a handy guide to making sure the five selected images at the top of the page suit your brand.
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Paul Bradshaw explains his reasoning behind community building assignments on the MA courses he teaches in at Birmingham City University and City University, London.
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A selection of useful tools to track tweet from Poynter via Journalism.co.uk
18/02/2011
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Map of protests in Libya.
17/02/2011
links for 2011-02-17
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Tumblr as a tool for blogging and building a community. Great analysis.
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Interesting experiments with map use. Maps are an extremely useful web tool.
15/02/2011
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A good summary showing some of the interesting tools and ideas created at The Guardian's SXSW hackday.
14/02/2011
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Ideas and development of new tools for journalists at The Guardian's SXSW hack day. Joanna Geary from The Times is excited!
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Journalist Joseph Stashko explains how he set up Hyperlocal Blog Preston and the reasons behind this.
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This is another very simple guide to using Twitter. I thought it was simple and well written.
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Extremely interesting piece by the always readable Kevin Anderson about integrated newsrooms
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Examples of what the BBC has done for online journalism. The way BBC staff write for the web is second to none. I use the headlines as particularly good examples. Paul Bradshaw invites suggestions to add to the list he put together.
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Curation as a social media artform. How US NPR journalist Andy Carvin pulled together tweets and sources to cover the January 25 uprising in Egypt.
11/02/2011
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Curation has always been part of journalism. Now CMS, social bookmarking and other forms of social media gives journalists better tools.
In this interview Andy Carvin from American public radio service NPR talks about this curation of the Egyptian revolution.
07/02/2011
links for 2011-02-07
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“Don’t even start writing till you have decided what the one big thing is going to be, and then say it to yourself in just one sentence.” See if you can do it in just six words. A story with a clear focus makes more sense."
Great advice
05/02/2011
links for 2011-02-05
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How it all began and an explaination of how hashtags work
Sarah Booker 