UGC Blog on International Education
Clips
- Becoming the Facebook Generation: What Defines Us?
- Israel, Hamas Fight Gaza Conflict Online
- Live Updates: Kenya General Elections
- Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories
- The Long Trip and the Long Wait: Azadeh’s Story Part 1
- The Truth: Americans Reveal What They Really Think of International Students
- UN Agency for Women the Culmination of Years of Effort
- Virtual Life and Digital Death
- We Are Not Terrorists: Muslim Experiences on Campus
Tags
Trainings and Strategy
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Evolution of Live Monitoring: Twitter and the Egypt Elections
One of the most common questions I get from people is how to start from nothing and develop an effective social media monitoring scheme. Here's one example, from liveblogging the Egyptian elections.
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In Depth Social Media Training: Personal Branding, Story Development
A compilation of materials used for a 6-week course focusing on skill development and workflow for reporters and hosts.
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Introduction to Social Media
What is social media for? Why should journalists get excited about it? An introduction to social media that ignores specific platforms and gets to the heart of why journalists should care.
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Twitter Basics (For Pure Beginners)
The absolute basics of the platform and the conventions you need to know to start playing with it.
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Making Twitter Your Newswire
Four sessions of an hour each to take a group of reporters who had never seen Twitter before, and get them to the point where they felt empowered to start playing with it.
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Advanced Search Techniques: Twitter and Google
A 1-hour refresher on advanced search techniques and strategies for Twitter and Google.
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Social Media Strategy (One Pager)
An attempt to show a radio news team where they can derive benefit from incorporating social media into their workflow.
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Social Media Workflow for Radio News Show
This sample workflow imagines the team has one person dedicated to digital and social media, and looks at how social media responsibilities might be effectively distributed among team members.
