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Challenging Conventional Wisdom of Social Media

Seven Social Media Editors: AP’s @EricCarvin, Reuters’s @AntDeRosa, NYT’s @LHeron, Mashable’s @EMJBanks, NBCLatino’s @RealAdrianC, CBS Sports’s @Minnie6998 and Black Enterprise’s @newsgyrl joined @ColumbiaJourn's @Sree for NYC Social Media Week closing event to share practical and useful tips.

  1. At the beginning of the program (6 pm), Prof. Sree Sreenivasan (better known as @sree) paid tribute to the great Anthony Shadid as others stood in silence.

  2. [RIP, @AnthonyShadid, 43. As any gathering of journalists today  should, we'll be paying tribute tonight to this terrific reporter who died  while doing what he loved - telling the stories of the Middle East to the world. As Don Van Natta Jr (@DVNjr) tweeted last night: "By Anthony  Shadid" was a beacon of humanity and truth.]
  3. Anyone interested in social media , journalism, transparency etc etc should be following #smweditors
  4. Digital Educator & Founder, Social Media News NY, @Krochmal, did the Livestream
  5. General Social Media Tips:
  6. .@AntDeRosa: "I think you need to be a journalist first before you use all these social media tools." #SMWeditors
  7. "The only thing I write that's going to the Library of Congress is my tweet" - @Sree #WatchWhatYouTweet #smweditors
  8. @sree Recommends you need to think about each tweet. Even if only one person sees it! #SMW #smweditors
  9. "I spend 3-7 minutes composing each Tweet ... that's how important it is." - @sree #SMWeditors
  10. .@ericcarvin on getting a job in SM: "You need to be good at something besides social media." #smweditors
  11. If you're good in real life you can be great on Twitter. But have other skills besides social media. #smweditors
  12. I am a DSLR Photographer, Video shooter and editor, Graphic Artist and Community Manager <--- not just social #smweditors
  13. @Minnie6998 Suggests using Elance to get temp jobs to get your foot in the door. #SMW #smweditors
  14. "We need better ways to explain to people who aren't digital natives how we experience the Web and understand it." -@AntDeRosa #smweditors
  15. "Conversation is important, not just broadcast." #smweditors
  16. If you don't want to include your email address in your Twitter profile, include a link to your LinkedIn profile. #smweditors #latism
  17. non-power users social media is for light-weight or attitudinal opinions. Within AP, it's anything but light weight @ericcarvin #smweditors

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Digital Journalist. Master Storify-er. @ColumbiaSIPA Student. '12 @ColumbiaJourn Alum. Fmr w/ @BronxInk. Tweets about #HornofAfrica, #Oromo, #Ethiopia, #SocialMedia | 414-367-6642 |Founder, [email protected]

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