Screencasts - by Patrick Thornton on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 15:10 - View Comments

Screencast: How to use Publish2 for beginners

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Note: This is a pilot in a new series we are developing. Your feedback would be much appreciated. How do you like the content? How is the video format? What should we improve?

This screencast is a beginners guide to Publish2 and link journalism.

Link journalism is becoming a big part of modern journalism, and this video should help you get started with one of our favorite social bookmarking sites, Publish2. BeatBlogging.Org has two Publish2 groups that you are welcome to join, Beat Blogging and Beat Blogging Tools.

This screencast will help you understand:

  • The sign-up and approval process.
  • The different ways to link on Publish2.
  • How to install the Publish2 toolbar.
  • How to utilize Publish2 groups.
  • How to nominate beat reporters to our Publish2 group.

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  • http://www.danielbachhuber.com/ Daniel

    I think the videos in a non-Quicktime format would be a marked improvement.

  • http://www.patthorntonfiles.com pat

    @Daniel,

    We have not been able to use Flash or mp4 compression and get acceptable results yet. It’s difficult to find a compression scheme that won’t make the Web text hard to read.

  • Jim Saunders

    How does Publish2 settle upon its criteria as to what constitutes a journalist or journalism organization?

  • http://www.danielbachhuber.com/ Daniel

    @Jim, Publish2 has editorial guidelines here:

    http://www.publish2.com/about/editorial-standards/

  • http://www.suzanneyada.com Suzanne Yada

    I think this is great. What software do you use to screencast?

    Beginning Twitter for journalists needs to be the next screencast. I was considering doing one myself but lack the software.

  • http://beatblogging.org/2009/02/11/screencast-how-to-use-twitter-for-reporting/ Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting | BeatBlogging.Org

    [...] is our second screencast video. You can find our first about Publish2 here. Both of these are pilots. We would greatly appreciate any [...]

  • http://beatblogging.org/2009/05/05/the-daily-roundup-a-second-dose-of-link-journalism-from-bloggers/ The daily roundup: a second dose of link journalism from bloggers | BeatBlogging.Org

    [...] much time, can drive serious traffic and provides additional content and insight for readers. With sites/tools like Publish2, link journalism has become incredibly [...]

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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.

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