Digital & Social Tools for Election Coverage

Digital and Social Tools for Election Coverage

Live Campaign Coverage

On Liveblogging• Short, frequent takes• Curate content from a variety of sources• Can be short or long-term• Promote liveblog before, during and replays on site & social media• Make it interactive

Think Beyond Text• Videos • Audio• Photos • Tweets• Slides • Source• Social Media documents• Polls • Maps

CoveritLive/ScribbleLive

Use What You HaveUpdates in (time-stamp, reverse-chronorder) in your blog or story template

Live Event Prep• Get names, titles in advance when possible• Set scene & your role• Describe your circumstances, vantage point: At event, watching on TV, curating tweets• Get background materials

Live Tweeting• Mix play-by-play with context, background• Pass on quotes, who is there, add in photos• Use tweets as your notes for later• Note significant pauses and stops• Check facts before you hit “tweet”• Take questions, respond when possible

#Hashtags can…• Group tweets from the same event• Expand your audience• Tap into a national conversation

Add Readers’ Voices Into Your Story • Can pull in tweets, Youtube videos, Soundcloud audio, public Facebook comments, photos from Flickr & Instragram • Curate local reaction to national events • Combine local and national materials

Tracking the Campaigns

Search for Conversations• Search.twitter.com/advanced• Use keywords, location, hashtag

Organize Your Twitter StreamMake sense of incoming tweets

Build/Follow Twitter ListsMake sense of incoming tweetsLists to build:• Local/national campaigns• Campaign reporters• Local politicos, tastemakers

Finding who to list• By subject/location: Twellow.com, Wefollow.com• Muckrack.com (for finding journalists)• Check out others’ Twitter lists• Listorious.com

Facebook Search

Build Facebook Lists• Follow politicians and campaigns without “fanning” pages• Group pages however you’d want

Reader-Contributed Coverage

Google Docs• Gathering info using Forms• Results flow into a shareable spreadsheet• Can do surveys

Collect Reader Contributions

Crowdsourced map: MapaList

Crowdsourced audio: Soundcloud

Digital & Social Tools for Election Coverage

by Mandy Jenkins on Sep 06, 2012

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