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
http://tinyurl.com/56ron
http://snurl.com/399lf
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