Newsroom 2.0: Integrating social networking into your publication
Newsroom 2.0 was held from 1:45-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2009 in Salon D at the DoubleTree hotel in Sacramento, Calif. at the 2009 JACC state conference.
A discussion on best practices to integrate social networking tools and services into print and online editions of a student-run publication.
Topics to be discussed included using social networking sites to increase web traffic and readership, the challenges of maintaining an online presence and popular web trends. For more information and updates on workshop topics, visit http://theguardsman.com/newsroom2point0 or follow Twitter user @newsroom2point0.
Speaker Bios:
Jessica Luthi is currently the editor in chief for The Guardsman from City College of San Francisco and a visual/web journalism major. Mrs. Luthi was a key designer on the redesign team for The Guardsman’s online edition and does web consulting on a part-time basis.
Currently the online editor and a copy editor for City College of San Francisco’s student newspaper, Alex Luthi had a major role in facilitating the redesign of The Guardsman’s online edition, theguardsman.com.
John Hornberg is the current executive editor of the Spartan Daily and a senior print journalism major at San Jose State University and a former editor-in-chief at The Current at American River College in Sacramento. He will be working as an intern at the copy desk at the Los Angeles Times this summer.
Web sites and tools mentioned in the workshop:
TweetGrid – Multiple Twitter searches updated in real time
Colonel Tribune – The Chicago Tribune’s Web ambassador
Visual Editors – The classroom for visual editors
Cover it Live – Quick, easy and cheap live blogging service, great for live events
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