Screencast: Advanced Twitter tips & tricks – search.twitter.com
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Today’s screencast focuses on advanced uses of search.twitter.com. This screencast is an excellent way to show your colleagues the power of Twitter and why they should be on it. Simply put, Twitter allows reporters to do their jobs easier and better.
These advanced search techniques are what allow Twitter to truly shine as a reporting tool. The ability to search by location, date, author name, etc is huge
If you’re new to Twitter, I recommend checking out our first screencast on Twitter, “How to use Twitter for reporting.” We have a Twitter 101 screencast coming soon.
Our previous screencasts can be found here.
Screencast: How to use RSS and Google Reader for journalism
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This week’s screencast is about using RSS for journalism and reporting.
We use Google Reader to demonstrate how RSS and RSS feed readers can be a powerful journalism tool. RSS feeds and feed readers can allow journalists to easily monitor a lot of disparate news sources. It’s much easier to use a tool like Google Reader to monitor information on the Web than it is to use Web browser bookmarks or to manually typing in URLs.
This video goes over:
- How to add find RSS feeds
- How to add RSS subscriptions to Reader
- How to use Reader’s more advanced features
- The power of searching within Reader
- And much more
Our previous screencasts can be found here.
Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting
This screencast goes over how I use Twitter for reporting.
This is not a beginner video, but many newcomers to Twitter will be able to watch this and quickly understand what is going on. In the future, we will have a beginner video and more advanced videos, but we first wanted to create a video that shows how Twitter can be a useful reporting tool.
This video goes over:
- Why I use Twitter for reporting
- The importance of a good profile
- The value of search.twitter.com
- Desktop clients like TweetDeck
- How to get an RSS feed of a search term
- And more
This is our second screencast video. You can find our first about Publish2 here. Both of these are pilots, and we would greatly appreciate any feedback.
Screencast: How to use Publish2 for beginners
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.
