Tips and trick for using your smartphone to report, edit and publish from the field. Presented 10/13 at Newstrain Seattle.

1. #NewstrainNW

4. • Serve your audience on social media –
and reach a new one
• Feed tweets into your site as a breaking
story
• Use live tweets as your notes
• Helps staff communicate
• Start writing a story in-office from
reporters’ live tweets

5. • Mix play-by-play with context, background
• Pass on quotes, who is there, add media
• Note significant pauses and stops
• Divide and conquer as a team
• Take questions, respond when possible

8. • Group tweets by keyword
• Find other sources
• Expand your audience
• Organize content for display and archiving

9. • Search for hashtag(s) already in use
• If a hashtag is already in use, adopt it
• If not, choose one that’s simple & unique
• Geographic abbreviation helps
(#SEAStorm)
• Geographic better than branded

32. • Write a post on this session in
email. Email to
8d58j99skhgyx@tumblr.com
• Take photos or audio. Email
to 8d58j99skhgyx@tumblr.com
• Send tweets with hashtag
#NewstrainNW

34. Mandy
Jenkins
mandyjenkins@gmail.com
@mjenkins
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