Twitter moves at the speed of cyber optics. Most publishers aren’t able to track Twitter 24 hours a day. With so many brilliant ideas, resources, and breaking news on Twitter having the shelf life of a gnat, the JA pulls our top picks each week from our stream for you to find when it’s convenient. In this section you’ll find tweets from JA’s tweet stream that offer interesting tools, tactics, tips and techniques to help you experiment, innovate and collaborate.
Easy — and free — email encryption, tips for scholarly communications research, a newsroom without an office?, the future of NPR’s user experience, LinkedIn connects volunteers with nonprofits
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Posted on January 19, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Test your grammar skills, how local publishers use sponsorship for revenue, journalism’s ‘Netflix for news’, highlighting 2013’s digital media scholarships, searchable library of TV news captions
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People & Collaboration
Posted on January 14, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools for data visualization and design, digital solutions to help you unplug, managing work-at-home employees, 5 predictions for data-driven journalism in 2014, Detroit’s unique housing project
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Posted on January 7, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Merits of email encryption, curation and journalism better together, platform for high school journos to share work, open data not a substitute for good reporting, ONA’s 2013 roundup
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Posted on January 1, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools for reporting on sexual assault, create stunning interactive infographics, how news might anticipate readers’ needs in 2014, IBM’s 5 tech trends, increased potential when journos collaborate
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Posted on December 26, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
How journos can find truth in social media, advice for editors: develop newsroom leaders, journalism’s successful place in the future, how magazines fare on Twitter and why, fellowship deadlines
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Posted on December 18, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Making sense of government data, collecting tips for mobile reporting, potential power of multimedia storytelling, beautiful visualization of Web connections, broadcasting on special needs issues
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Posted on December 9, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Keen insights on infographics, training on computer-assisted reporting, the ethics of quoting Facebook posts, the debate on unpaid interns goes on, integrating developers into the newsroom
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Posted on December 3, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Making the most of Facebook, balancing hard and light news on social media, telling stories via Google virtual tour, stats that will alter your social strategy, help for freelancers in warzones
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Posted on November 26, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Explore LinkedIn’s powerful tools, tips to create innovative interactive infographics, media literacy toolkit for teachers, thinking of online videos as evidence, inspired media entrepreneurship
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Posted on November 19, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
