February 2, 2010 • 4:36 pm Comments Off
Please complete my survey
February 1, 2010 • 5:58 pm Comments Off
Exercise: Twitter
Set up a twitter account.
Follow at least 20 other twitterers. Include two from the course.
Create and send out at least three tweets.
Create at least two groups.
Save at least two searches.
Retweet at least two tweets.
Use at least three hashtags
Install and familiarize yourself with Tweetdeck.
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• 3:39 pm 0
Exercise: Saving stuff
Being a good digital journalist is about organising yourself well. That means monitoring web sites, and being able to find links and pieces of information you’ve saved quickly and efficiently.
Please do the following exercises:
Bookmarks:
Set up an account on delicious, add the Firefox extension, and add at least 20 bookmarks and 30 tags related to your beat and personal interests to your account.
Add at least two other course participants to your delicious network.
RSS:
Set up Google Reader and add at least 20 Singapore or beat-related feeds to your account.
Create at least three folders for them.
Add at least two other course participants to the list of people you follow.
Evernote:
Set up an Evernote account, and create at least two notebooks.
Add the web clipper to your browser and save at least 20 notes related to your work or interests.
Add at least 30 tags to your notes.
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• 12:34 pm 0
Module: Research and the Art of Search
• 12:27 pm 0
Module: Twitter
To start off, here is a post on Twitter explained and some Twitter history. To learn how to set up an account, go here.
The twitter basics are
How To Follow Someone on Twitter
Messaging via Twitter: Private
Then there’s
Then there’s using Tweetdeck
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• 9:57 am 0
Module: Gathering Tools
A lot of being a journalist is about organising the information you’ve got so you can get to it quickly.
That means being prepared:
- keeping your bookmarks well organized
- grabbing information when you come across it
- keeping that information organized
- knowing how to find it when you need it.
Two of my favorite tools for this are Evernote and Del.icio.us.
Delicious is a bookmark organizer: it lets you store website addresses so you can find them quickly—as well as letting you search for other websites in the bookmarks of other users. It also works whatever computer you’re on, so there’s no danger of you losing your bookmarks if your computer crashes or you’re at home when all your bookmarks are at work.
Here’s how to get started with delicious.
To install the Firefox addon, go here. For Internet Explorer, check out this page.
Evernote makes it easy to store pretty much anything and find it quickly. I take notes during press conferences and interviews with it, but its main purpose is to grab information from other sources and store it—not just on your computer but on the net.
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Jeremy Wagstaff
