Tools of the Trade - by Patrick Thornton on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 21:57 - View Comments

Help us in our latest networked journalism effort

We’ve started our second Publish2 group, and we’d love for you to help us to identify the tools, tips and tricks of social media.

Our first Publish2 group is for highlighting innovative beat reporters with social media, blogging and other Web tools. It is for acknowledging both individual beat reporters and their individual actions that help lead to better reporting or stories being broken. We use it on a weekly basis to form our Leaderboard, by taking the best examples from the past week.

Help us inform people by joining our groups and sharing your links.

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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.