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.
Twitter highlights from Block by Block 2012, connecting young readers to newsprint, and a rare study: how to manage journalists through these turbulent times.
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Posted on September 18, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
New French fad: co-opetition for ads. Picking the right word for Twitter, rockstars of #opengov, a how-to on college police beats, and a quick explainer on journalism today worth passing on.
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Posted on September 10, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
The reach of social and the reporting implications, comps for both data-driven newsrooms and for freelancers, plus keeping an eye on new combinations and content under the journalism roof.
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Posted on September 4, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
How to deep-search Google, experiments in revenue, nuances of foundations funding for-profit news, tweeting your beat v. your personality and ten years of the internet in a full color graphic.
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Posted on August 28, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Be a political ad watcher! Fall in love with data! Consider whether Twitter will help or hurt your political reporting! Plus shield laws and citizens, and rethinking local ads.
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Posted on August 21, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
A new tool to track hot topics, looking for newsrooms to test. Learn to add GIFs to your reports and love it! Where to find political ad spending now it’s online, and urging j-schools to change.
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Posted on August 8, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Twitter’s new, unscientific political pulse, inspiration in the origins of Radio Lab, practical ad tools, verification virtues, and a thick journalism blogroll to help refresh your reading list.
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Posted on August 7, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Twitter keepers this week: increasing the value of images online, two views of the new newsroom, “ballsy” community storytelling and more Journatic fallout.
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Posted on July 26, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
How to localize anything, a Google tool that could draw attention to your writing, easier data and “citizen” journalism, and fascinating, long-term insights on how people relate to news.
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Posted on July 12, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
YouTube’s tool to protect sources, tips to live tweet, and thoughts from indie publishers on how to best use SEO. Plus, journalism skills in demand and AP’s new print project.
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Posted on July 12, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps