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.
Action after Journatic, the New England Center for Investigative Journalism’s innovative funding, getting local police drone data, a new cartoon pub and social media tips to cut time and cost.
Tools & Tactics
Tips & Techniques
Innovation & Experiments
Reports & Articles
People & Collaboration
Posted on July 9, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Paywalls bringing in pay, Olivier Fleurot on the journalism-conversation connection, business tips for nonprofits via INN, and useful ideas on copyright, keeping contacts and real time reporting.
Tools & Tactics
Tips & Techniques
Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on July 2, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Highlights this week: Remembering the humans in social media, two terrific tools for deeper community and government coverage, best practices for user-generated content.
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Tips & Techniques
Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on June 25, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
This week: nonprofit media revenue over the past seven years. New thinking on community and deals, training to track companies’ influence in politics, and backup tips from coach Tai Goodwin.
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Innovation & Experiments
People & Collaboration
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Posted on June 18, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Opportunity: African Americans are high Twitter users. Inspiration: teaching investigative skills. Practical: tips on startup space. Politics: The TV public records debate intensifies.
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Innovation & Experiments
People & Collaboration
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Posted on June 11, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Tidbits from the Twitterverse: a new “Internet defense” org, Chrome extensions for journos, what to consider when teaching anything, and – don’t miss this one – how to make money in journalism.
Tools & Tactics
Tips & Techniques
Innovation & Experiments
People & Collaboration
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Posted on June 4, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
A handy short list to up accuracy in reporting, building brand with your enemy, and a UK take on the big brand of news. Plus: A truly interactive paper that builds new tech right into the old.
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Innovation & Experiments
People & Collaboration
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Posted on May 28, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Learn, dig, and pivot. Tweets this week offer ideas on learning how to deepen or start a beat, showcase excellent reporting by checking others’ analytics, and share useful startup stories.
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Innovation & Experiments
People & Collaboration
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Posted on May 22, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Money tips: how collaboration and crowdfunding can help up publisher revenue. Brainfood: how to quantify journalists’ credibility and conversing (and listening) online.
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Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on May 16, 2012
Topics: Revenue Tweets for Keeps
How to ask the hard questions before signing up with an ad network, how to protect yourself and your sources from digital tracking, the benefits of data journalism and “responsive design” defined.
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Innovation & Experiments
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People & Collaboration
Posted on May 9, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
