Social Media
Laura Oliver
@lauraoliver
laura@journalism.co.uk
Media Wales and smellavision
Big no no...
Crowdsourcing
I will remember standing outside on the National Mall with around two million people, my fingertips frozen as I sent dozens of tweets from my Blackberry, and thinking I wasn't alone in my attempt at capturing the moment. It was the mobcast I'd been waiting for.
Andy Carvin, NPR
Why social media?
I liveblog a lot and I believe the format – minute-by-minute updates, combining news, analysis and links – allows journalists to report events with more thoroughness and immediacy than if they are just writing stories (…) If journalism is the first draft of history, live blogging is the first draft of journalism. It’s not perfect, but it’s deeply rewarding – on any day, I was able to publish almost every snippet that I thought worth sharing, which is not the case for anyone who has to squeeze material into a newspaper – and it beats sitting on a battlebus.
Liveblogging
http://www.delicious.com/lauraatjournalism.co.uk/socmedacademy