Blogging/Tweeting Show-Me Institute Blogosphere Conference

by elpresidente | 8:34 am, November 21, 2009 | Comments Off

A packed house–100+ in attendance

People’s Press Collective heads east to St. Louis to expand the empire of citizen journalist proletariat!

Follow on Twitter–http://twitter.com/slapstickpols and scroll for updates

Investigative Journalism:
–importance of open records requests, be focused in search parameters and willing to negotiate over costs
–audits from past years and whether or not things have actually improved/been corrected
–”change orders” that includes bid estimate and then final estimate (uncover budgetary excesses)
–for fun: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex.htm

Social Media: (hashtag for event #showme)
–personal branding of blogs, find a niche and an audience
–Facebook “big brother of Twitter”
–Facebook and importance of stickiness and “time on site”
–Twitter as organizational tool of conversations (Tweetdeck etc. for organizing groups)
–Twitter as the new newswire, instantaneous news updates, what’s really happening, stay ahead of media, leading the way on live events
–mashable.com, twitcam.com
–never write something you wouldn’t want published on the front page of the New York Times, build an audience but build the right kind of audience, be circumspect in use of social media
–beware of follow fetish–distracting for you, and a diversion for those who faketweet (hired Tweeters, legislators claiming to “connect” by following you on Twitter)

Missouri Blogosphere:
–”if an opinion piece [a good one] is published and no one reads it, does it have an impact?”
–”honesty through paranoia”
–a tour of the Missouri blogosphere:
http://missourirecord.com/
http://johncombest.com/
http://www.showmedaily.org/
http://archpundit.com/
http://stlouisteaparty.com/
http://archcitychronicle.com/

–cultivate relationships with media, earned media gives traction, good practices will make you seen as a credible source
–as consumers of information, print/online “traditional” media vs. blogs just a question of credibility as a source of information
–reality: blog economics not good, incentive is making a difference in your community

Where is media going?:
–dismissal of Internet as CB radio of 21st century (whoops!)
–MSM won’t acknowledge real problem: their own bias and what they miss, stories they select and others they choose not to cover, only getting half the story
–New Media acknowledges their own biases
–great stories filling in the gap of media, they can’t cover everything (even without bias issue, simply understaffed)
–plenty of competition and talent at national level, not a lot at local level
–citizen journalists steal traditional media thunder

Videography:
–do’s: fill the frame, use a tripod, make sure nothing is moving into your shot, mic subjects/shotgun mics if possible; don’ts: talk
–flexibility of livestreaming, loss of quality offset by variety of applicability
–price of hardware/software (i.e., more expensive) does not make the content or product better, take time to familiarize yourself with all aspects

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