9 online tools for journalists

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How can journalists improve the visibility of their articles? This presentation was the introduction to a workshop at the 2008 Spiked Journalism Summer School for 15 - 17 year olds students

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Spiked Journalism Summer School 2008

Twisting, plurking, tweeting and tumblring

Richard Sedley

Blogging basics

Blogging basicsInspiration Optimisation Publication

Inspiration

www.facebook.com

http://twist.flaptor.com

www.google.com/trends

Optimisation

Publication

www.twitter.com

www.plurk.com

www.qik.com

www.alertthingy.com

www.tumblr.com

http://snurl.com/39959

Task

• Spend a few minutes composing your first post– Facebook Lexicon: www.facebook.com/lexicon

– Twist: http://twist.flaptor.com

– Google Trends: www.google.com/trends

– Google Adwords: http://snurl.com/399lf

– Abakus Topword: http://tinyurl.com/56ron

– Twitter: www.twitter.com

– Plurk: www.plurk.com

– Qik: www.qik.com

– Alert Thingy: www.alertthingy.com

– Tumblr: www.tumblr.com

Assignment

• Keep a small diary: post your thoughts and writtenwork from this week on your blog

• Join Twitter and friend me (richardsedley) – share and keep in touch with others at the Summer School

www.cscape.com

www.richard-sedley.com

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