Links & resources on journalism, social media for journalists, climate change, open data. Extract from the training delivered on Social Media for journalists in Lesotho (see other slideshare).

1. Resources for journalists on
Social Medias & Climate Change
Africa Adaptation Programme
Maseru, 22 February 2012
© Richmond Magazine

2. Climate Change data & info:
Climate Change institutional sites
Climate Change Knowledge Portal (World Bank)
Open Data resources for climate change (World Bank)
Country data for climate change (Lesotho) (World Bank)
IPCC - intergovernmental panel on climate change
UN climate change Gateway (United Nations)
UN Framework convention on climate change (Country Adaptation
programmes) (United Nations)
Climage pledges (UNEP)
Climate change adaptation (UNDP)
African Adaptation Programme (Lesotho profile) (UNDP)
Southern Africa Regional Climate Change Programme
African Adaptation Programme (UNDP) & AAP Baobab Coalition
(facebook) (African Adaptation Programme)
Climate Change & Disaster reduction
Global Facility for Disaster Risk& Reduction (GFDRR)
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate center portal and more links
UN international Strategy for disaster reduction (United Nations)
PreventionWeb – information needs of the disaster reduction
community (Lesotho statistics & risk profile as well as news feed)
Resources
Climate Change
More climate change resources & news
Alertnet Climate change information desk, climate-
change related resources directory , and online
course on reporting on climate change (Alertnet,
Reuters)
BBC Climate change hot topic as well as guide
Africa Adapt, sharing knowledge on mitigation
practices
Climate & Development Knowlegde network (CDKN)
Climate Ark – Climate change and global warming
portal
Apps4Africa, a challenge on building apps to fight
climate change
WWF climate change entry and climate news
Greenpeace climate blog and climate change campaign
Sci-Dev network on Climate change & Energy
Open Data Sources:
• Open Data resources for climate change
(World Bank)
• Country data for climate change (World Bank)
• The World Bank Open Data (Lesotho) (data catalog)
• UN data (Lesotho)
• UNDP Open Data (Lesotho)
• AFDB Open Data for Africa (by country)

3. Resources
Social Media & web tools
Social Media & Web Tools
Facebook
Twitter, Trendsmap, Monitter, Tweetmeme,Trendistic &
more ways to track trends, nearbytweets, etc
YouTube video search
Flickr images (advanced search for creative commmons) &
getty images (royalty free or rights managed)
Google Images search and advanced search for free images
Creative Commons Power search for free images
Google Insight for searches and use for journalists & PR
Google News for news feeds
Google Alerts for news on selected keywords , and Google
Public Alerts emergency alerts on google maps (explained)
SocialMention to search on blogs and social networks
Google reader tro aggregate news
iGoogle dashboard & news aggregator
Netvibes dashboard & news aggregator
Bloglines news aggregator
Technorati Blog search engine and blog authority, indexing
112 million blogs !
Check user names availability
Video on the social media revolution
« African » Social Media
Why the future of African journalism lies in social media ,
slideshare presentation
Social Media in Africa article & resources part 1 & part 2
Africa Social Media Pulse Check article
Afrigator (a South African aggregator of African blogs and
news), (closed down in Dec 2011 but now on Twitter
@afrigator
Zoopy (a YouTube/Flickr like service also out of South
Africa) – made for mobile
Ushahidi (an SMS crisis reporting and mapping engine from
Kenya).
Amatomou (a South African news and social media
aggregator)
ForgetmenotAfrica brings email to every phone though etxt.
The Grid, geo-based social network

4. Resources
Journalism & social media
Journalism, organizations:
International Journalism Network , with interesting topics like
disasters, citizen journalism, the environment, social
networking, ICFJ anywhere online courses on digital media,
International Center for Journalism (ICFJ) with interesting
resources on Citizen journalism and the coverage of disaster
& crisis, environmental reporting (and much more)
Internews, empowering local media
Open Society Foundation and resources on social media
Center for Integration & Imprivement of Journalism - CiiJ: -
Resources
Knight Citizen News Network
Citizen journalism & social media tools
Introduction to mobile journalism tools
Mobile Media Tool Kit - how to use mobile tech to
enable citizen media (create, share, engage, etc) – great
case studies and tools
Mobiles in a box tools & tactics for mobile advocacy
Global Voices (Lesotho)
Spot.us: crowd-funded reporting
10 browser add ons for journalists media article
10 tools to improve your online journalism
Muckrack – journalist directory, alerts and more
Examples of journalism using social media
Somalia speaks - Al Jazeera in Somalia
Snow storm in the Balkans – crisismapping by AL Jazeera &
SBTF
How journalists innovate using frontlinesms around the world
Journalism & social media guides
8 ways to use social media in the newsroom
The journalist’s guide to Facebook (Mashable)
The Journalist's Guide to Twitter (Mashable)
Everything I Need to Know About Twitter (Mashable)
Social Journalism: Past, Present and Future (Mashable)
Social media self guide training for journalists with powerpoint
How Tumblr is changing journalism blog article
Zombie Journalism resources guides on social media
Digital Storytelling & mobile strategy blog article
Tips on crowdsourcing news blog article
How journalists can leverage social media article
Engage your community to power coverage self training guides
10 ways journalism schools are teaching social media (Mashable)
Writing for the Web – how users read Web articles
Newbie: 12 Tips for Twitter users
SocialBrite guide
Gaining more web skills
Learning 2.0 on blogging, RSS, wikis, podcasts…
Itrainonline on multimedia, web development, searching the
internet etc
Deep Web searching tools
Center for earnign and performance technologies : top 100 tools
ICT Hub Knowlegde base and how to increase IT skills in an
organization
Starting on Twitter from Beth

5. Resources
More
ICT for climate change & development:
ICT, climate Change & development (and case studies) from
Nexus
MobileActive, mobile technology for social impact
Ushahidi and Crowdmap crisismapping tools : ex : Samoa
incident reporting,
FrontlineSMS, mobile technology for social change
Kiwanja Mobile Application Database (from the founder of
FrontlineSMS)
SMS in action, a map of SMS based initiatives for
development
Mobile Active case studies
E-agriculture portal
Solutions for water.org project
Water for People project
Projet Sauti Ya Wakulima for farming in Tanzania
Information helps combat food insecurity in Kenya article
(and more)
Farmers in Peru share organic expertise via internet article
Kabissa, networks for civil society groups using ICT for
change
Lesotho Media :
Country profile:
Lesotho Media Profile from EISA
Lesotho Newspaper & News Media Guide by ABYZ
Lesotho Media by Map of the workd
Media:
Sunday Express
Lesotho Time
Lesotho News Agency
Informative News
PCFM
Mo Africa FM
Public Eye
News Feeds
EIN Lesotho News Feed
Google News for news feeds
Reuters Lesotho News Feed

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