exploring alternative channels for disseminating critical news stories
DESCRIPTION
The basic use of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flickr, You tube, Drop box, Audioboo, SoundCloud, UstreamTRANSCRIPT
Why your story may be rejected
Do I trash my stories Using social media Some Social media tools Facebook Twitter Other tools
When you step on toes
You didn’t balance your report
Cannot sell the paper/medium
Criticizes more than
developmental
Your story looks like commercial
NO!!!
Balance It
Leverage on your colleagues’ ability
Use other magazines (Total Education wants
Education stories, Big Issue and other community
newspapers)
Sell to Wire Service
Use Social Media
Social media has opened a new door of career
opportunities for media professionals
Journalists of all ages should recognize that
social media conversations aren’t entirely
frivolous; they can help us understand who
community members are, what’s important to
them and how they’re connecting with stories.
We’re all working toward a mission of
community building, whether it’s online or not
Blog: A discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
To create Wordpress account:Go to www.wordpress.comClick on get startedFill the your user detailsClick ‘Create Blog’Activate your blog from your mail
To Post in your new blogClick on ‘New Post’Type your ‘title’Type the body of your report
Click ‘Publish Post’ to have it posted on your blog
Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends, swap photos, and network.
To create a FacebookProfile, simply follow these steps
Go to www. Facebook.com Fill your details and click ‘sign up’ You may ‘find friends’ or skip it Input your profile information Save and Continue Input Profile Information and save
An online social networking
service and microblogging ser
vice that enables its users to
send and read text-based
messages of up to 140
characters, known as "tweets“
•Go to twitter.com
•Click ‘sign up for twitter’
•Fill your user information
•Click on ‘Create my Account’
•Click ‘Next’ on the welcome page
•Follow five users
•Import other users from your email
•Upload picture or skip
•Welcome to twitter
Share your world with family
& friends through your photos.
Have a conversation through
comments, notes and more on
your Flickr photos.
Click sign up now at http://www.flickr.com/
Send Large files with easeGo to dropbox.comClick on ‘Sign in’Fill your username/passwordUpload your files
drop your stories here: Go to: www.dropbox.comUsername: [email protected]: advocacy
Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows
billions of people to discover, watch and
share originally-created videos. YouTube
provides a forum for people to connect,
inform, and inspire others across the globe
and acts as a distribution platform for original
content creators and advertisers large and
small – Sign in with your gmail account at
www.youtube.com
Audioboo – To record, store and share audioboo.fm
Ustream - Stream Video and audio live online - ustream.tv
Soundcloud: Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created – soundcloud.com
These are just few of the toolsYou need to explore more