1. Social media provides valuable tools for climate change reporting by enabling journalists to strengthen relationships with users and sources, and promote their work to niche audiences.
2. Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and video platforms like YouTube can be used to engage audiences on climate change, spread content, and aggregate conversations around topics and events.
3. While social media provides opportunities for reporting, journalists must take care to verify information found online and avoid using private social media details without consent.
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1. SOCIAL MEDIA AND
CLIMATE CHANGE
REPORTING
Yinka Olaito
www.yinkaolaito.com
2. News consumers now search for news
throughout the day...news
organizations is to adapt to the
evolving habits of their readers.
3. ‘‘Social Media provides
valuable links to the world
around us; enables us to
strengthen our relationships
with users and sources; and
serve as an outlet to promote
and distribute our work. As
journalists
take part in this vibrant
conversation’’ .
Source: James Hohmann
5. NEED FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
IN CC REPORTING
Social Media is about: dialogue, the
community, and niche audiences — a complement
to the new direction of news publishing
6. 3 LEVELS OF NEWS
CONSUMERS
1.Traditional consumers-love print media.
2 Digital Consumers: go to the web and digital for news.
3.The Connected Consumers: go to Facebook and twitter to find news
update
7. AFRICA AND
SOCIAL MEDIA
Africa is currently the most dynamic
continent on Facebook. It gained more
than 50 percent of its 25 million
Facebook users in the six months up
to February 2011. The top three
countries in Africa are Egypt (5.6
million users), South Africa (3.7
million users) and Morocco (3 million
users).
Source: SocialBaker
8. SOCIAL MEDIA: CCR
AND SUCCESS
The future belongs to people who can
spread ideas.
9. SOCIAL MEDIA: CCR
AND SUCCESS
The result we seek must be intentional
and aspirational in its
design, calculation, presence and overall
21. FACEBOOK
AS CC
REPORTING
TOOL
Profile and page
22. MAXIMIZING FACEBOOK
FOR CC REPORTING
Wall
Notes: vital tool to engage
fans/friends, Easy to use Video
Photos,
Groups: Community of people with
common interest
Events
Links
46. DOWNSIDE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA
“Information from your Facebook
page, your blog entries, and your
tweets — even if you intend them to
be personal
messages to your friends or family —
can be easily circulated beyond your
intended audience. This content,
therefore,
represents you’’.
47. DOWNSIDE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA
The web’s democratic nature could result
in a lot of inaccurate buzz,
which makes the filtering role of news
organizations more important than ever.
Some reporters have been too eager to
pounce
on anything they see online, but being a
good gatekeeper means carefully
authenticating any information found on
Twitter or Facebook.
Source: James Hohmann
48. DOWNSIDE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA
It’s important to get consent if using
material from people’s
pages where they’d have a reasonable
expectation of privacy. On a breaking
news story, with heavy deadline
pressure and a
desire to get as much information as
possible, it’s tempting to yank details
from someone’s Facebook page and
throw them on
the web.
Source: James Hohmann
50. “Be honest about who you
are, identifying yourself as a XYZ
employee online if you would do so
in a similar situation offline. This
applies to your Twitter and Facebook
accounts, for example, as well as
personal blogs and
comments you post on other blogs or
stories.
51. RESOURCE
GATHERING
TOOLS
Google reader
RSS
IPAD Flipboard-links shared by friends on FB and Twitter
Instapper-free read later tool
Hunch: tool to personalise the internet and recommend
taste
Google +