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Using Web 2.0 Tools in Journalism 1.0
A workshop to shows you how to use various Web 2.0, social
networking, social bookmarking, interactive mapping tools to find
sources, improve your stories, etc.
www.sreetips.com/web2.html
- Get connected: Social networking sites:
LinkedIn.com ("MySpace for Professionals") | Facebook.com (newsfeed, The Wall, poke, apps, Scrabulous + tips for journalists)
- Interactive Mapping:
Google MyMaps
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Photoshop, Avid alternatives: Online photo and video editing
SnipShot.com | Jumpcut.com
- Your Money:
Tools to take charge of your money:
Finance.yahoo.com | 25 Web 2.0 finance tools
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Your Health: Tools to take charge of your health:
RevolutionHealth.com
| WebMD's Symptom Checker
- Open sources/free software:
Sree's tips on free software options (almost every category)
- New, collaborative way to free Office:
Docs.google.com (documents, spreadsheets, presentations) | Zoho.com
- Sree's collection of blogs to know:
Figuring Out Blogs & Whatever's Next
- Keep better track of... everything:
Google.com/alerts | Yahoo.com/alerts
- RSS, please: Keep abreast of blogs and more:
Sitara Nieves explains it all | Google Reader | MyYahoo
- Citizen Broadcasting
BlogTalkRadio.com: Easy-to-use web radio shows
Mogulus.com: Consumer video broadcasting
LiveVideo.com: Consumer video broadcasting
- Hyperlocal Datamining Mashups
EveryBlock.com: "A news feed for your block"
ZIPSkinny.com: "Get the skinny on that ZIP (demographics by ZIP code)"
YourStreet.com:
"YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing
and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations
down to the street level"
Topix.net: "The
leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information
and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city"
LiveNewsCameras.com: 50+ live news webcams
ZocDoc.com: A sorta OpenTable for doctors and dentists
WhoIsSick.org: Self-reported local health watch
Other resources from Sree
Sreenivasan
Columbia New Media Professor & WNBC-TV Tech Reporter
SREE ADVICE ON WNBC: www.wnbc.com/technology
FIGURING OUT BLOGS &
WHATEVER'S NEXT: www.sreetips.com/blogs.html
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BETTER GOOGLING: www.sreetips.com/google.html
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