This is the presentation built to go along with the webinar "Mobile Reporting 101" for the RTDNA. In it, I describe the must-have apps for reporters who want to be able to cover breaking news events in the field, using smartphones to upload text, audio and even streaming video.

1. Newsroom in your pocket Covering breaking news with a mobile phone Strategies to engage with tomorrow’s news consumers – and creators

2. “Singularity” “The computer in your cellphone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one at MIT in 1965. What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket. “What fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.” --Futurist Ray Kurzweil

3. Future Displays From CES: Quantum LED technology Creates LED grid in RGB color Powered by temp differential Bluetooth connectivity Augmented reality

5. How Good is the Video?

6. How Good is the Video?

7. How Good is the Video?

8. “Inflection Points” Iran: Twitter+Mobile+Facebook “Hamed” is an Iranian refugee living in the Netherlands, and it was from there that he posted the death of 27-year-old NedaSalehiAfghaSoltani. "I am no hero," Hamedsaid. "The real hero is my friend who risked his life making the video." A Facebook friend, that is. Hamed never met the author of the film except on the social networking site.

9. “Inflection Points” World Cup Soccer 2010 ESPN announced an $100MM plus investment into mobile video in 2011. “Fans don’t care how they get their content as long as they get it. “Mobile is personal, mobile is digital, mobile is video and mobile is social.” --Brian Colbert, senior director of mobile ad sales at ESPN

10. “Inflection Points” Tablets, tablets, everywhere! More than 80 tablets announced at the CES show. Each wants you to develop content for their store (Apple’s iPad App store now larger than their laptop biz) “Hope you have a good browser on that thing…”

13. A Brief Aside About Equipment “The best camera in the world is the one that you have with you when the picture happens.” Way too many variables in each market to make a blanket recommendation (carrier coverage, local HSDPA servers down-rezzing videos, etc.)

14. DeviceAnywhere

15. DeviceAtlas

16. What’s in Your Backpack? #1 cause of video problems: dirty optics (the phone is in your pocket, after all…)

17. Noise Cancelling + Mike

18. Battery Booster(s)

19. GorillaMobile Tripod

20. Gaff Tape / Duct Tape

21. Armored Case

22. Skills Overview Identify & connect with sources while in the field Coordinate with other team members Search and access content in various forms (web, video) Accurately & quickly enter text Capture, edit & transmit still photos Capture, edit & transmit audio Capture, edit & transmit video

23. Skills Overview 8. Use GPS to navigate to a location 9. Upload content to a CMS 10. Stream audio/video live to web 11. Transmit/share files with another reporter’s mobile device 12. Generate or use QR codes 13. Geo-tag content

24. 1. Find Sources Social Networking sites – join them all and establish a presence Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Gowalla, SCVNGR, FourSquare CrossPaths, StreetMaven, TweetyMap, MeetUp

27. 2. Coordinate Coverage Yammer Posterous Tumblr Weegoh CrossPathz BrightKite

28. EnLegion

30. 3. Search & Access Content Beyond Google: Dragon Medical, iTriage World Factbook HazMat, PoliceScanner Wikipanion Plus Firefighter Companion VideoTime for Facebook EzUbi (for your audio/video) DailyMotion Premium (for viral videos)

31. 4. Accurately Enter Text Dragon Dictate

32. TextExpander

33. SimpleNote

34. 5. Capture & Edit Photos Photoshop Express

35. Instagram

36. MediaMarker

37. Scanner Pro

38. Photo Transfer

39. 6. Capture & Edit Audio Audioboo

40. Cinch

41. Caster: Mobile Studio

42. 7. Capture & Edit Video iMovie

43. Splice

45. 8. Use GPS to Navigate

46. 9. Upload Content to CMS Blogpress

47. WordPress

49. LiveJournal

50. Squarespace

51. Typepad

52. Picasa

54. 10. Stream Audio/Video Live UStream

57. 11. Transfer Files Filer

58. 12. Generate/Use QR Codes

60. BeeTagg

61. 13. Geo-Tag Content

62. SeeClickFix

63. Monitor Comments with Disqus

64. Learning/Training in Tools MobileQuest - http://www.artesianmedia.com/mobilequest Make it fun & non-threatening Give prizes at the end

67. Very forward-thinking

68. Aggressive approach to new technologySchibsted – Fast Bear toMarket

69. FasterThan TV VG.nohadthe video 6 hoursbeforethe TV newschannelscouldgettheir video tothestation, ingested, edited, v/o, etc.

70. Organizing Chaos MISTAKES: Many voices Logistics Getting material to office

71. Not Always Reliable Rumor: Indian gov’t asking Twitter to be shut down because it was being used by terrorists to track cops Reality: rumor spread by high school junior in Boston

73. Shelby Star

74. Reuters

75. Hierarchical Information Flow Question: How often, and under what conditions, do you interact with your readers?

76. Wildfires – Urgent Need for Info

77. Readers Do It Themselves

78. Monetization

80. For the Code Geeks…