expand your skills
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Breakout session at SPJ Region 8 Conference, Fort Worth Hilton, March 24, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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Expanding Your Skills:Become a Curator, Liveblogger & Data VisuzalizerSPJ Region 8 Conference – Fort WorthMarch 24, 2012
Jake BatsellAssistant ProfessorDivision of Journalism@jbatsell
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News used to bea one-way lecture …
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… but today, news is a two-way conversation.
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News consumers expect facts, but they also expect to have a voice in that ongoing conversation.
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Three Free Web-Based Tools That Can Instantly Help You Expand
Your Skills and Engage Your Audience
• Storify• CoverItLive
• Google Fusion Tables
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Storify is a social media curation platform that can be embedded into any blog.
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CoverItLive is a live-blogging platform that can incorporate real-time tweets, hashtags and comments.
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Google Fusion Tables convert spreadsheets into maps, charts and other interactive visual tools.