Africa
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.
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.
- [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.]
- @anthonyshadid remembered #smweditors at @ColumbiaJour @ Columbia University: Graduate School of Journalism instagr.am/p/HILiItGipD/
Anyone interested in social media , journalism, transparency etc etc should be following #smweditors
Follow all of today's #smweditors panelists: @AntDeRosa @lheron @ericcarvin @sree @emjbanks @minnie6998 @realadrianc @newsgyrl- Digital Educator & Founder, Social Media News NY, @Krochmal, did the Livestream
- General Social Media Tips:
.@AntDeRosa: "I think you need to be a journalist first before you use all these social media tools." #SMWeditors
"The only thing I write that's going to the Library of Congress is my tweet" - @Sree #WatchWhatYouTweet #smweditors
"I spend 3-7 minutes composing each Tweet ... that's how important it is." - @sree #SMWeditors- .@ericcarvin on getting a job in SM: "You need to be good at something besides social media." #smweditors
If you're good in real life you can be great on Twitter. But have other skills besides social media. #smweditors
I am a DSLR Photographer, Video shooter and editor, Graphic Artist and Community Manager <--- not just social #smweditors
"We need better ways to explain to people who aren't digital natives how we experience the Web and understand it." -@AntDeRosa #smweditors
If you don't want to include your email address in your Twitter profile, include a link to your LinkedIn profile. #smweditors #latism
non-power users social media is for light-weight or attitudinal opinions. Within AP, it's anything but light weight @ericcarvin #smweditors
