Twitter Basics for Journalists and Recovering Journos — contentious.com October 24, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentAmy Gahran offers a useful intro to Twitter:
“In my experience, Twitter’s biggest payoff is that it allows you to gather a personal posse who can support you in powerful, flexible, speedy ways.
Also, if you’re choosy about the people you follow, Twitter can be quite an effective radar screen for news or relevant issues.
But there are many other potential benefits, especially for journos…”
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Why Journos Should Learn Yahoo Pipes – Poynter Online October 10, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentAmy Gahran offers a quick intro to Yahoo Pipes, having just created her first one:
"For any topic or event you might cover, all kinds of people will be posting all kinds of content about it in many places. Exploring such related content is useful not only to journalists who follow beats or stories, but also to their audiences and communities. The trick is to gather it all together into one place, and to filter it so that you only see what's truly relevant."