Presentation: How journalists can use social media

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Posted on : 07-24-2009 | By : Vadim Lavrusik | In : Higher Education, Social Media

Tags: collegemedia, Facebook, onlinejournalism, skype, socialmedia, Twitter, youtube

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Today I gave a workshop to college journalists from around the country at the Associated Collegiate Press Summer workshops. The title of the presentation was supposed to be, “Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Using Social Media as a Journalist.” Well, below are the results of the powerpoint I made. Though the presentation was for college journalists, the same principles apply.

Many of the key points come from the a Mashable post that I wrote a month back, but expanded on some of the example quite a bit. I would love some feedback. The college journalists seemed to respond well to it.

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