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.
Plagiarism resources for newsrooms, nonprofits optimize with tech, indie media goes mainstream, journo branding increases news org appeal and highlights from the National Media Reform conference.
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Posted on April 15, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Using social media as a “personal brand” (and other tips for job seekers), looking at freelance deals, how media literacy forms activists, an updated editorial code and journalism as inspiration.
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Posted on April 9, 2013
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Context and use case on responsive design, 22 rules for reporting, a new street paper empowers San Diego, 10 ways data is changing journalism, buzz busting alt weeklies put it in perspective.
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Posted on April 2, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
ProPublica’s fav 5 tools to mine public records, a useful branding webinar, a case study on profitable magazine subscription models, PEW reports on teachers using tech and how search yields new audiences.
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Posted on March 26, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Ways publishers can optimize Facebook’s newsfeed, the influence of “knowledge journalists,” Medium’s sustainability goal for journalism, a thorny spot for an Atlantic editor, and digital activism.
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Posted on March 18, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Mastering SEO on WordPress, the latest in incremental revenue: in-image ads, Gannett pitches video, suggested improvements to IRS nonprofit designation, and skills to seed journalism’s future.
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Posted on March 11, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Self-guided training on breaking stories with economic data, navigating the minefield of branded content, data journalism and the future, print’s next step and a seasoned editor returns to school.
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Posted on March 4, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Data innovation in our midst: Computation in journalism, social media data as marketing campaign drivers, shining light on state-based government data, research is vital, and where the data jobs are.
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Posted on February 27, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
See who shared your link, tools for making graphics, a database of business execs and their connections, LinkedIn’s possible future in publishing, and a how-to for community information projects.
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Posted on February 18, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Help for journos inundated by new trends, on becoming an ombudsman, the Omidyar effect, a return to normality for the World Press Freedom Index and a new partnership for environmental coverage.
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Posted on February 11, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps