Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists

Kenny Smithwww.kennysmith.orgwww.twitter.com/kennysmith

Social media

FacebookTwitterFew, if any of the other platforms

Twitter statsThis week at Chirp:

Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users300,000 new users sign up per dayTwitter receives 180 million unique visitors per month 75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party applications60% of all tweets come from third-party appsThere are 600 million search queries on Twitter per dayThere are over 100,000 Twitter applications37% of active Twitter users use their phone to tweetLOC archives

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/just_the_facts_statistics_from_twitter_chirp.php

Facebook student stats

36% reported logging on to Facebook every day 21% reported logging on to Facebook several times per day(Jones, Johnson-Yale, Millermaier, Seoane Perez, 2009)

Feast of feeds

Yahoo Pipes – an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. pipes.yahoo.com

Wikis – simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. www.wikispaces.com, et al

Twitterfall – view Twitter trends and patterns. Twitterfall.com

Delicious – social bookmarks. del.icio.us

Local product

On the ground coverage

Service to community

Jeff Jarvis

Formerly of advance.netCUNY journalism professorAdviser to many start-upswww.buzzmachine.comAuthor, What Would Google Do?

“Do what you do best, link to the rest.”

Samford Bubble

Samford Crimson, SNN, al.com

Community Contributions and the Culture of Feedback

Audience voice.

What does the community know? What troubles them? What question do they wish I’d really asked the

county commissioner?

Conversation.

Departmental Culture

Converging a department’s media offerings.

Exodus.

Day One.

Game Changers

Cell phoneiPadappsDroidFlipsEvolving online technologies

Tools vs. Arts

Winners vs. Losers in teaching to tools and software.

The love of learning.

The forward thinking of college students.

Understanding the need of the tool.

The Foundation Stone

“Vigorous writing is concise.”

“Omit needless words.” Elements of Style

The overview given

Storytelling

Storytelling

HOWS

WHYS

Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists

Kenny Smithwww.kennysmith.orgwww.twitter.com/kennysmith