Using RSS and social media to find news
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Paul Bradshaw, a senior lecturer in online journalism at Birmingham City University, discusses strategies for using RSS and social networks to enhance newsgathering. He provides a list of useful RSS tools, recommendation for categorizing feeds, and actionable steps for journalists to streamline their information gathering. The document emphasizes the importance of integrating various online platforms to find ideas, leads, and contacts effectively.
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Using RSS and social media to find news
- 1. Paul Bradshaw Senior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog ‘ Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering’ (or: How to combine RSS and social networks to find ideas, leads and contacts)
- 2. New types of information
- 4. New types of journalist
- 5. link
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- 8. RSS
- 9. What sites have RSS? News sites Blogs Facebook, MySpace etc. Flickr (tags, comments, friends and groups only) YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Twitter Delicious, Digg, etc.
- 10. Other useful RSS tools Page2RSS.com Feedburner Google Docs 9cays
- 11. Searches by RSS Google News Search, Yahoo News Technorati, icerocket, ljseek Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes) video.google.com, YouTube Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit Boardreader Add mloovi
- 12. Monitor the conversation (ego)
- 13. 7 things you can do now Create an account with an RSS reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines). Add : 2 news site feeds 2 blog feeds 1 blog search feed (use Technorati or Google Blog Search) 1 news search feed (use Google News) 1 Twitter search feed (use search.twitter.com) 1 forum search feed (use Boardreader) 1 delicious tag feed
- 14. Get social
- 16. Managing your feeds Tip: create 10 category folders (e.g. searches; local; ego; Asia) and have max 5 feeds in each Use Yahoo! Pipes to truncate, filter and combine your RSS feeds
- 17. More things you can do now Add 2 RSS feeds recommended by Google Reader 2 Delicious users to your network (see who has bookmarked the same things) 2 ‘similar sites’ brought up by a Google search 2 blogs that link to a blog you subscribe to (use Technorati)
- 18. Paul Bradshaw Senior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog [email_address]