Uncategorized - by Patrick Thornton on Thursday, May 8, 2008 11:55 - View Comments

Beat Blogging – An Elevator Pitch

People ask me for a beat blogging elevator pitch. Here’s a quick attempt at it.

In this video I talk about.

  • What beat blogging is
  • The first big obstacle we’ve noticed
  • Rolodex 2.0
  • Power of the Posse
  • Public versus Private Networks (being the center of conversation versus getting a scoop)

The most important thing to note: ANYONE CAN DO THIS. It takes almost no money. The only barrier is committing your time or as Amy points out: Finding a way to turn turn the network into a tool so that you can get work done through it.

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About BeatBlogging.org

BeatBlogging.org was a grant-funded journalism project that studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools to improve beat reporting. It ran for about two years, ending in the fall of 2009.

New content is occasionally produced here by the this project's former editor Patrick Thornton. The site is still up and will remain so because many journalists and professors still use and link to the content. BeatBlogging.org offers a fascinating glimpse into the former stages of journalism and social media. Today it's expected that journalists and journalism organization use social media, but just a few years ago that wasn't the case.

About the Author of this post
Patrick Thornton is the editor and lead writer of BeatBlogging.Org. He is @pwthornton on Twitter.