Twitter: Advanced search tools for journalists
by Kevin Anderson on April 18, 2013
Twitter has a number of advanced search options that will help journalists find updates and photos to help them illustrate their stories. It can help them zero in on updates with photos, as well as finding updates by location so they can find people tweeting near a news event.
Using photo data to verify images on Flickr and Google+
by Kevin Anderson on April 5, 2013
Camera phones and social networks have created an almost unimaginable amount of user-generated content, and in our second in a series looking at how to take advantage of user-generated content, we look at techniques to verify photographs on photo-sharing sites Flickr and Google’s Picasa.
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Advanced UGC image search techniques for finding and verifying photos
by Kevin Anderson on April 4, 2013
In the third of our UGC series, we’ll look at advanced image search techniques that will help find photos that you can use in your news coverage and just as importantly keep you from publishing fake photos that spread quickly during large news events.
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Using photo-sharing site Flickr to source UGC images
by Kevin Anderson on March 29, 2013
In the first of several guides to user-generated content, we’ll look at Flickr, an early photo sharing site now owned by Yahoo. It has a number of features that make it useful for finding photos that you can use to illustrate your stories.
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Clear editorial goals essential to effective UGC strategy
by Kevin Anderson on March 22, 2013
News organisations have added depth to their journalism by embracing user-generated content, whether that is news tips, photos, videos and eyewitness accounts of breaking news stories, or comments on stories of the day. To create successful user-generated content strategies, news organisations need to clearly identify their editorial goals. That will drive focused, more manageable strategies that deliver results.
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UGC: Focus and diverse revenues key to commercial succes
by Kevin Anderson on March 22, 2013
News organisations are using a variety of content from their users in the form of photos and video shared via social media, blogs written by members of the public and comments on content. User-generated content clearly offers great opportunities editorially, but there are also successful strategies news businesses can use to develop UGC into a commercial opportunity.
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Editorial filters add value to UGC
by Syed Karim on March 21, 2013
With people creating and sharing more photos, videos and social media updates, the challenge isn’t finding content but sifting through the vast quantities of it for items of interest and quality. Developing an editorial process to filter user-generated content increases its value and creates deeper engagement with audiences.
How to adapt your Facebook strategy to the new news feed
by Kevin Anderson on March 12, 2013
Facebook never stands still. It is constantly adding features – as well as adapting ones from competitors – changing its design and tinkering with its privacy settings. The social network just announced major changes to its news feed that will impact on your social media strategy. We look at how news organisations can respond to make the most of the changes.
The message matters: The science of gaining more followers on Twitter
by Kevin Anderson on March 1, 2013
Every social media agency and self-anointed expert has advice on how to increase the number of people who follow you on Facebook and Twitter, but at least when it comes to Twitter, we now have some scientific research on what wins followers: Be positive and informative.
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How Montenegro’s Vijesti uses social media and events to build audience engagement
by Kevin Anderson on February 7, 2013
Montenegrin newspaper and online portal Vijesti saw a sharp spike in their Twitter followers and Facebook fans when their journalists used social media and a Twitter hashtag to cover protests last year, and now the news group uses social media to engage their audience directly in their journalism, even going as far as meeting them at “Twitter parties”.
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