Home » Series: social-media-for-journalists

Social media for journalists: 10 ways to use Evernote

October 26, 2010

If social media is rewriting the rules of field after field, then publishing may be the field where its impact has been most immediate..and often, most painful. Yesterday, Chris Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Centre posted an interview with me about this very subject in CCC’s Beyond the Book podcast. Our conversation gave me a [...]

Read more →

LinkedIn for journalists: 5 reasons to shoot for 500+ connections

October 27, 2010

This post is part 2 in a series, Social Media for Journalists. There’s one thing I expect to see on every journalist’s LinkedIn page: Journalism is one of the few professions where hitting LinkedIn’s 500+ connection threshold should be part of the job description. That’s because, as with professionals in a handful of other fields [...]

Read more →

Social media for journalists: 9 feeds for your iGoogle dashboard

October 28, 2010

This blog post is the 3rd in a series, Social Media for Journalists. As a journalist, you depend on timely access to the lastest news…including the online murmurings that aren’t news yet, but could be the source of your next great story. You need a way to keep the most important information in your line [...]

Read more →

Social media for journalists: 10 essential tools

October 29, 2010

This is the final post in a series, Social media for journalists. We all know that social media is transforming the broadcast and publishing businesses. But social media offers journalists at as many useful opportunities as challenges. This week, I’ve highlighted three of the tools that are most crucial to my own work as a [...]

Read more →