The basic use of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flickr, You tube, Drop box, Audioboo, SoundCloud, Ustream

1. Akin JIMOH
ajimoh@devcomsnetwork.org

2.  Why your story may be rejected
 Do I trash my stories
 Using social media
 Some Social media tools
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Other tools

3.  When you step on toes
 You didn’t balance your report
 Cannot sell the paper/medium
 Criticizes more than developmental
 Your story looks like commercial

4.  NO!!!
 Balance It
 Leverage on your colleagues’ ability
 Use other magazines (Total Education wants
Education stories, Big Issue and other community
newspapers)
 Sell to Wire Service
 Use Social Media

5.  Social media has opened a new door of career
opportunities for media professionals
 Journalists of all ages should recognize that social
media conversations aren’t entirely frivolous; they
can help us understand who community members
are, what’s important to them and how they’re
connecting with stories.
 We’re all working toward a mission of community
building, whether it’s online or not

6. Blog: A discussion or informational
site published on the World Wide
Web and consisting of discrete
entries ("posts")
To create Wordpress account:
 Go to www.wordpress.com
 Click on get started
 Fill the your user details
 Click ‘Create Blog’
 Activate your blog from your mail

7. To Post in your new blog
Click on ‘New Post’
Type your ‘title’
Type the body of your
report
Click ‘Publish Post’ to have
it posted on your blog

8.  Facebook is a great way to stay in touch
with friends, swap photos, and network.
To create a FacebookProfile, simply follow
these steps
 Go to www. Facebook.com
 Fill your details and click ‘sign up’
 You may ‘find friends’ or skip it
 Input your profile information
 Save and Continue
 Input Profile Information and save

9. An online social networking
service and microblogging servic
e that enables its users to send
and read text-based messages of
up to 140 characters, known as
"tweets“

10. •Go to twitter.com
•Click ‘sign up for twitter’
•Fill your user information
•Click on ‘Create my Account’
•Click ‘Next’ on the welcome page
•Follow five users
•Import other users from your email
•Upload picture or skip
•Welcome to twitter

11. Share your world with family &
friends through your photos. Have
a conversation through
comments, notes and more on
your Flickr photos.
Click sign up now at http://www.flickr.com/

12. Send Large files with ease
Go to dropbox.com
Click on ‘Sign in’
Fill your username/password
Upload your files
drop your stories here:
Go to: www.dropbox.com
Username: info@devcomsnetwork.org
Password: advocacy

13. Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows
billions of people to discover, watch and
share originally-created videos. YouTube
provides a forum for people to connect,
inform, and inspire others across the globe
and acts as a distribution platform for
original content creators and advertisers
large and small – Sign in with your gmail
account at www.youtube.com

14.  Audioboo – To record, store and share
audioboo.fm
 Ustream - Stream Video and audio live
online - ustream.tv
 Soundcloud: Capture a voice, moment or
music in seconds or upload audio you’ve
already created – soundcloud.com

15. These are just few of the tools
You need to explore more