Expand Your Skills
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The document discusses how Jake Batsell presented at the SPJ Region 8 Conference in Fort Worth on March 24, 2012 about expanding journalism skills through curation, liveblogging, and data visualization. It introduces three free web-based tools - Storify for curating social media, CoverItLive for live blogging incorporating tweets and comments, and Google Fusion Tables for converting spreadsheets into interactive visuals. Contact information is provided for Jake Batsell to learn more.
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Expand Your Skills
- 1. Expanding Your Skills: Become a Curator, Liveblogger& Data Visuzalizer SPJ Region 8 Conference – Fort Worth March 24, 2012 Jake Batsell Assistant Professor Division of Journalism @jbatsell
- 2. News used to be a one-way lecture …
- 3. … but today, news is a two-way conversation.
- 4. News consumers expect facts, but they also expect to have a voice in that ongoing conversation.
- 5. Three Free Web-Based Tools That Can Instantly Help You Expand Your Skills and Engage Your Audience •Storify •CoverItLive • Google Fusion Tables
- 6. Storify is a social media curation platform that can be embedded into any blog.
- 7. CoverItLive is a live-blogging platform that can incorporate real- time tweets, hashtag s and comments.
- 8. Google Fusion Tables convert spreadsheets into maps, charts and other interactive visual tools.
- 9. Thanks! Links available at www.delicious.com/jbatsell/spjfw12 jbatsell@smu.edu Twitter: @jbatsell