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.
A tool to track social media conversations, getting a competitive market edge, the buzz about Vine, the rise of the entrepreneurial journo and insight into hyperlocal publishing models that work.
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Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on February 5, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Video lessons from Gannett, what nonprofits can learn from public radio, selling sponsored material without lowering standards, protecting digital content and cracking the social conversation.
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Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on January 28, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Spice up breaking-news posts on Facebook, lessons from running hyperlocal sites, a model for updating your corrections policy, “Budget Balancer” games and publishers’ true thoughts about agencies.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on January 22, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
How to build business directories (and revenue), the future of making money in journalism, fixing foreign news, education trends, and all you need to know about the Guide to Online News Startups.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on January 14, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
The future of blogs, a comprehensive calendar of 2013’s social-change events, the danger of dropping wire services, how news spreads on Twitter and how nonprofits relied on social media in 2012.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on January 7, 2013
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Free tools for data analysis, expert insight into app development, one way to boost newspapers’ online revenue, some good financial news (yes!) and partnering to help citizen news sites.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on December 28, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Big data for crisis maps, guidance for journalists sharing opinions, new opportunities with augmented reality, profitable newspapers (really), and Frontline’s secrets for successful collaboration.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on December 21, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Scholarships, clues to reach news junkies via mobile, why statistics — egad! — are vital for journalists, hope for freelancers, and how to vet demand, vital for startup success.
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People & Collaboration
Posted on December 18, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Deep thinking to draw audiences to hard stories. How to secure your WP site, evidence connecting social with action and tips to improve your job chances. Or, make money with a blog!
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People & Collaboration
Posted on December 11, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Loads to learn at this time of transition. The next in fact-checking, new ways of long-form, connecting in real life, post-industrial journalism and the future brand/journalism relationship.
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Posted on December 3, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
