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Jul 06
» 10,000 Words: 30 things for journalism graduates to do this summer | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
Here’s the first 10:
1. Start a blog and post at least twice a week
2. If you already have a blog, write a post that gets retweeted 20 times
3. Shoot 100 amazing photos and post them on Flickr
4. Friend at least 50 journalists on Twitter who in turn follow you back
5. Become a part of a crowdsourcing project (start here)
6. Improve at least five Wikipedia entries
7. Create an audio slideshow using Soundslides
8. Shoot and edit a three-minute video and post it to YouTube
9. Design a website from scratch using HTML and CSS
10. Create and maintain a Delicious account with at least 50 links that you find interesting.
[More to come …]
» What We Gotta Know about These Tools - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas … You’re only a stranger once.
- Who we are.
- What we offer.
- Who we’re offering that to.
- Which tool is a match.
“ USC football coach Pete Carroll — @PeteCarroll — posts music videos from YouTube for his “song of the day” feature. He posts videos of his players and always updates his nearly 30,000 followers about when he’ll be on the radio, TV or at a function. Carroll is the ultimate social networking coach because he’s active on both Twitter and Facebook and participates on the team’s football-related Web site, USCRipsIt.com. He’s so fanatic about social networking that he hired Ben Malcolmson as USC’s director of online media to focus strictly on that.
“ Just as news organizations are getting on top of Twitter, could the service already be yesterday’s news? Daniel Honigman, a former social media guru at Tribune Interactive, says lifestreaming might be taking its place. (Disclosure - I write for the blog Old Media, New Tricks with Honigman). What the heck is lifestreaming? It’s a way to take all of your social media and multimedia efforts and easily post them in one place, and usually the narrative is a running stream of consciousness. So, if a reporter would normally live tweet an event, why not lifestream it, with photos, videos and even audio all in one place?
