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.
Google upgrades BigQuery data tool, 10 tenets of data journalism, Columbia J-school’s Lede Program on data practices, how can journalists measure impact?, survey supports efforts of freelancers
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Posted on April 1, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
The role of stories in fundraising, how to register nonprofit domains, how much is a good story worth?, ‘digital natives’ might not be so tech-savvy after all, a push for the Senate to ‘e-file’
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Posted on March 25, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Get creative to mine hard-to-get data, designing habits in a multi-device world, Vox aims to explain the news, ASU’s engagement hub for online network of citizen sources, news junkies love Twitter
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Posted on March 20, 2014
Topics: Innovation Tweets for Keeps
Visualizing humanities data, mining the ‘deep Web,’ seeing the difference between art and journalism, majority of newspaper audience still ‘print only,’ conflicting stances on future of j-schools
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Posted on March 12, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Resources for entrepreneurial journos, effect of customer service on the bottom line, reaching voters in Panama and elsewhere, surprising data on ebooks, app utilizes newspaper-inspired design
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Posted on March 8, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Estimating response time for info requests, using 10-K forms to write about companies, marketing your thought leadership, big data’s effect on journalism, NYT opts for scientist as data analyst
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Posted on February 26, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Churnalism ID’s news stories that poach from press releases, analysis of Wikipedia’s network of editors, TV home for social media generation, visualized storytelling, journalism exodus to startups
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Posted on February 19, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Tools for fact checking social media content, Upworthy’s “attention minutes” measures online audience, Watchup aims “to reinvent news watching,” focusing on transparency, resources for biz journos
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Posted on February 16, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Getting news to young commuters, ex-Patch editors go solo, looking at 2014’s environmental headlines, defining what content marketing actually is, CNN and Twitter partner on data tool
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Posted on February 5, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
Getting more out of Twitter lists, finding what readers want from your blog, JA’s Lisa Skube on what 2014 will hold for hyperlocals, the return of EveryBlock, a video Q&A app for journalists
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Posted on January 30, 2014
Topic: Tweets for Keeps
