Expanding Your Skills:Become a Curator, Liveblogger & Data VisuzalizerSPJ Region 8 Conference – Fort WorthMarch 24, 2012

Jake BatsellAssistant ProfessorDivision of Journalism@jbatsell

News used to bea one-way lecture …

… but today, news is a two-way conversation.

News consumers expect facts, but they also expect to have a voice in that ongoing conversation.

Three Free Web-Based Tools That Can Instantly Help You Expand

Your Skills and Engage Your Audience

• Storify• CoverItLive

• Google Fusion Tables

Storify is a social media curation platform that can be embedded into any blog.

CoverItLive is a live-blogging platform that can incorporate real-time tweets, hashtags and comments.

Google Fusion Tables convert spreadsheets into maps, charts and other interactive visual tools.

Thanks!Links available at

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jbatsell@smu.eduTwitter: @jbatsell