Being the sort of person who puts all their work online, I thought it might be useful to put the agenda for next week’s one-day training course up, along with useful hyperlinks. As always, contributions welcomed. Here’s what I’ll be covering:
1. Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering: how to mix social media and RSS to bring the news to you
- Passive-aggressive newsgathering
- The 3 RSS reader strategy
- Workshop: creating a search mashup or email/text alert to track breaking news
2. Right place, right time – all the time: diaries, alerts, trends and stringers
- Setting up news diaries, news alerts and filters
- Monitoring trends and statistics
- Plugging into communities – creating social capital and building reader relationships
- Workshop: setting up dynamic diary with alerts
3. Making product out of process
- Using Twitter, bookmarking, blogging and commenting to bring in readers from the start of newsgathering – and shape the end product
- Mobile phone journalism tips and tricks
- Avoiding being ‘gamed’ – the AP principles
- Workshops: planning news story through ‘news diamond‘ process; cover breaking story
- Workshops: rethinking print article as conversation
