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.
Theme of the tweet week: ways to ease the change. A clearinghouse of free training, a visual how-to become a data journalist, and new ways to focus and fund your work.
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Posted on May 2, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
New Pew research finds most Americans are “quite attached” to local news, multiple ways to engage your community, tech to empower the next generation and tips on becoming a journo-preneur.
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Posted on April 25, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tips from this week in the Twitterverse. Media companies: nurture start-ups. Reporters: follow the money. Publishers: learn from the past, streamline your website, and check your success with six essential digital strategies.
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Posted on April 18, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
This week, we examine the importance of youth and diversity in media, then share tips to get the job done: build a local news site, crowdsource content with consent, and leverage sales staff.
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Posted on April 12, 2012
Topics: Education Experiments Innovation Policy Tweets for Keeps
Subscription options big players or small bloggers can install, easy apps for reporting fast from the field, and a new j-school focusing on collaboration. Plus: news orgs against public info access.
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Posted on April 4, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
This week we curated lists, scoped America’s media landscape, converted brand to revenue, and “newsgathered on the cheap.” Plus: lessons learned from opensource and startups.
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Posted on March 28, 2012
Topics: Experiments Innovation Revenue Tweets for Keeps
Creativity awarded: political climate illuminated by open data mapping & success across the spectrum of non & for profit news sites. Plus, a cautionary tale for hyperlocal publishers.
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Posted on March 21, 2012
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
The style guide of the times – do you keep all those symbols when you quote from Twitter? Debate over the 99 cent story model, and tough questions designed to change a newsroom’s success mindset.
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Posted on March 15, 2012
Topics: Technology Tweets for Keeps
Keepers this week include: Collusion, a new tool promising new tracking data; doing better business on FB and LinkedIn, and a brand new collaboration place for better journalism in the digital age.
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Posted on March 7, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
This week: the Chicago News Cooperative stopped publishing, the Philly Inquirer news staff petitioned potential owners to keep editorial integrity, and Gannett announced plans to paywall its papers.
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Posted on March 1, 2012
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
