What Are Your Favorite Online Tools for Reporting?
Reporting has always been about digging for facts, finding people to talk with, and gathering visual and aural accounts. Now that broadband is widespread, the tools have changed.
This Saturday, I’ll be in South Florida teaching an Online News Association workshop on where to go and what to use to mine, crowdsource, and distribute stories. It’s part of ONA’s free all-day Parachute Training program. Today’s the last day to register.
As I put the finishing touches on my talk, I’d like to know:
- Which tools and methods are most effective for you? Twitter and Facebook for querying, discussing, and linking are two. Others?
- Are there specific tasks you want to figuring out? For example, how to filter through many streams of information to find gold?
Leave a comment, or reply to me @MacDivaONA on Twitter.
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February 18, 2010 | Filed Under General Journalism
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Monitoring: Google Alerts, Google Search RSS feeds, Google’s Subscribe to Site. Feedly. Seesmic for Twitter Search. Lazyfeed to see the latest info in various topics in real-time.
Organize research: Delicious for groups of links. Publish2 to save bibliographic info for research. Diigo to cache versions of sites that might be changed or removed.
Interview: Livestream.com – live web video and can be used with multiple cameras as well as screencasting. Edit resulting FLV files for free with RichFLV or motionbox.com. Skype + Call Graph to record calls and turn them into podcasts. Google Voice would also work for this. Audacity to edit the files.
Crafting: Windows Live Writer to post to various blogs. Zemanta to find media to enrich posts. Photoshop Express for quick photo processing and sharing. CoverItLive for live blogs.
Promote and Engage: Twitter, Bit.ly, Lijit, Google Analytics.
Plus: WordPress stuff: TweetMeme, Facebook Share, All-in-one SEO, Google XML Sitemaps, gooseGrade, ShareThis.
I just did something similar to what it sounds like you are doing, so I had a list on hand.
Good luck!
Thanks, Chrys, for your helpful presentation yesterday!