Tools
Social networking allows people to share information, photos and other materials and talk about them online. There are many free social networking tools, including
- Ning allows anyone to create a social network instantly.
- Twitter is a "micro blogging" tool that enables people to communicate with their contacts (called followers) via short messages (called tweets).
- Facebook is an immensely popular social networking tool. Many news organizations have created "fan" pages on Facebook or share content on Facebook. One Knight-funded experiment by NewsCloud enables special news sites on Facebook.
- Flickr allows users to share photos. Sites can create photo groups around different topics and locations and link to them on Flickr.
- Seismic enables live video from computer to a site. It's a great tool for doing interviewing people.
Training
News University offers several low-cost Webinars on social media. Titles include:
- "Social Networks: The New Architecture of the Web"
- "Twitter for Journalists"
