Twitter CEO Evan Williams and Susan Mernit at ONA 09
to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone‘s visit to Columbia College Chicago, to TweetCamp, sponsored by Association for Women Journalists and other groups, it’s been an information near-overload about social media and Twitter in particular.
This is the first of series of posts about each of these diverse, but related events. I am going to try to point out for students the notable information from the various events, as well as discuss social media and its increasingly important role in journalism. It is a tool, nothing more, but it is a useful and affordable tool for reporters.
Reporters are using Twitter to locate sources and to dig up leads and story ideas, so Williams discussion of the coming lists feature was welcomed by the audience. Of course the question of how will Twitter make money came up, but Williams insists Twitter is in for the long haul, so getting things right is important now, not just cashing in.
You can read Jessica Estrepa’s Live-blog of Susan Mernit’s interview with Evan Williams at the ONA site. Jess is one of the student journalists who applied to be part of the ONA working press for the conference.
Jess Estrepa and other student journos at ONA 09 at "the Mac table."
These students get into the conference for free and get some monetary support for attending the conference. The work they produce is featured on the ONA site and becomes a great portfolio addition. The connections they make at the conference prove useful in job-hunting and establishing a network of collaborators in the world of online journalism. It is a great way to get involved, and though it is lots of work, it is rewarding and fun, too.
You can listen to Biz Stone’s talk at Columbia (again?). And the useful Twub, will produce a collection of all the tweets made about TweetCamp Chicago, provided the twitterer used the conference hashtag, #tcchi. Following on this introduction to all the Twitter madness,
Twitter Talk
San Francisco view from Chinatown.
I’m twittered out, at least for the time-being. Following Craig Kanalley’s session on BreakingTweets in our class, I was out in San Francisco for the for the Online News Association (ONA) conference. The keynote speaker there was Evan “Evhead” Williams, CEO of Twitter who posts to his blog via SMS,
Twitter CEO Evan Williams and Susan Mernit at ONA 09
to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone‘s visit to Columbia College Chicago, to TweetCamp, sponsored by Association for Women Journalists and other groups, it’s been an information near-overload about social media and Twitter in particular.
This is the first of series of posts about each of these diverse, but related events. I am going to try to point out for students the notable information from the various events, as well as discuss social media and its increasingly important role in journalism. It is a tool, nothing more, but it is a useful and affordable tool for reporters.
Reporters are using Twitter to locate sources and to dig up leads and story ideas, so Williams discussion of the coming lists feature was welcomed by the audience. Of course the question of how will Twitter make money came up, but Williams insists Twitter is in for the long haul, so getting things right is important now, not just cashing in.
You can read Jessica Estrepa’s Live-blog of Susan Mernit’s interview with Evan Williams at the ONA site. Jess is one of the student journalists who applied to be part of the ONA working press for the conference.
Jess Estrepa and other student journos at ONA 09 at "the Mac table."
These students get into the conference for free and get some monetary support for attending the conference. The work they produce is featured on the ONA site and becomes a great portfolio addition. The connections they make at the conference prove useful in job-hunting and establishing a network of collaborators in the world of online journalism. It is a great way to get involved, and though it is lots of work, it is rewarding and fun, too.
You can listen to Biz Stone’s talk at Columbia (again?). And the useful Twub, will produce a collection of all the tweets made about TweetCamp Chicago, provided the twitterer used the conference hashtag, #tcchi. Following on this introduction to all the Twitter madness,
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