The document discusses how a school newspaper staff began using Twitter to share information about school events and activities with students, families, and the community. Key reasons for using Twitter included allowing more students to follow sporting events and activities they couldn't attend in person and facilitating community outreach. The document provides guidance on who should tweet, when and how tweeting can support news reporting, building a Twitter following, using hashtags, and getting started with tweeting about school news and events.

1. Twitter
The Reporter’s New Notebook

2. Why Our Staff Tweets
 Wanted to get into social media slowly
 1 to 1 Initiative
 OMG! Kids like to tweet!
 Kids/Fans can’t go to every event
 Family and friends follow
 cool term: “Community Outreach”

3. When We Tweet
 Home and Away sporting events
 Lesser attended school events
 District and State Playoffs
 Other potential events
 NHSPA Convention
 School Sponsored Trips
 Live events

4. Who Tweets
 Adviser
 Reporter
 Other Teachers
 “Citizen Journalists”

5. How Does Tweeting Help Reporting?
 Online reporter’s notebook
 Continually writing the story
throughout the event
 Thoughts, opinions, emotion
s are immediate and noted
 Archived

6. Before

7. After

8. Building Your Twitter Community
 Tweet about stories your working on
 Tweet some (not all) school announcements
 Ask for feedback
 Tweet thing coming up in your next publication
 Respond to some (not all) tweets
 Follow them back

9. #Hashtags
 Saved searches
 Crowdsourcing
 Contests
 Hootsuite
 Storify
 Tweetchat

10. Getting Started
 Give reporter additional responsibilities
 Photog
 Reporter solely dedicated to tweeting

11. Follow us!
 @matt_raz
 @westsidewired
 @NHSPA
 @JEA
 @NSPA
 @jeadigitalmedia