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  • Stylebook includes new social media guidelines
    Shared by Tommy Thomason 50 weeks 4 days ago

    So is it smart phone or smartphone? Ereader or e-reader? And can you use "friend" as a verb now? The AP Stylebook has the answers in its new revision, which now includes guidelines for references to social media.
  • A journalist's primer on Facebook
    Shared by Tommy Thomason 1 year 32 weeks ago

    The very best way, of course, to get an overview of social media and to see how you can use Facebook and Twitter and the like is to come to one of TCCJ's workshops (And you're in luck, because another is scheduled for the University of Texas at Tyler on July 21). But here's a nice summary of how individual journalists and newspapers are using Facebook. It also includes a look at some of the ethical issues we have to deal with when we begin to use social media at our newspapers.
  • What journalists need to know about user-generated video
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 18 weeks ago

    So you've found a video on YouTube that you'd like to use on your Web site or you're interested in writing a story about. What are the ethical considerations and how do you decide if it's worth covering? What are your legal responsibilities from accepting video from a user? Leah Betancourt, the digital community manager at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has all of those answers in this post.
  • 69% of adults don't know what Twitter is
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 27 weeks ago

    So if you think the Twitter trend is overplayed or just "don't get it" when it comes to the microblogging service you're not alone. A Harris poll indicates 69% of adults don't know enough about Twitter to have an informed opinion about it. Mashable has the full report posted. If you're curious about Twitter, just click the Twitter tag under the Topics section on our Around the Web page for some Twitter info.
  • How to use social media responsibly
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 34 weeks ago

    Leah Betancourt of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has some advice on Mashable for journalists on how to best use social media. Her piece summarizes several policies that have been set by major metros, but also offers some practical tips that might be useful for to community journalists.
  • Everything I need to know about Twitter I learned in j-school
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 34 weeks ago

    Ann Handley has an great how-to about using journalistic writing skills on Twitter. "... news journalism works best when it’s simple and direct, at least in the story’s lead sentences. And simplicity (and other tenets of good journalism — like brevity, and clarity, and immediacy) are now cornerstones of how many businesses, brands and individuals communicate on Twitter," she writes.
  • NYT hires "social media editor"
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 36 weeks ago

    The New York Times has hired a "social media editor" who is going to be connecting with users on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. The first link is a blog post from Mashable, a blog about social media trends. The second link is to the new social media editor's Twitter account.