TwitterThe Reporter’s New Notebook

Why Our Staff Tweets

Wanted to get into social media slowly

1 to 1 Initiative

OMG! Kids like to tweet!

Kids/Fans can’t go to every event

Family and friends follow

cool term: “Community Outreach”

When We Tweet Home and Away sporting events

Lesser attended school events

District and State Playoffs

Other potential events

NHSPA Convention

School Sponsored Trips

Live events

Who Tweets

Adviser

Reporter

Other Teachers

“Citizen Journalists”

How Does Tweeting Help Reporting?

Online reporter’s notebook

Continually writing the story throughout the event

Thoughts, opinions, emotions are immediate and noted

Archived

Before

After

Building Your Twitter Community

Tweet about stories your working on

Tweet some (not all) school announcements

Ask for feedback

Tweet thing coming up in your next publication

Respond to some (not all) tweets

Follow them back

#Hashtags

Saved searches

Crowdsourcing

Contests

Hootsuite

Storify

Tweetchat

Getting Started

Give reporter additional responsibilities

Photog

Reporter solely dedicated to tweeting

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