Facebook

This course is a core requirement for the Social Media belt.

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AVAILABLE COURSES:

• KDMC – Getting started with Facebook for journalists

FROM JRC INTRANET: (login on JRC server for access)

• Video – Web 2.0 and engagement
• Kelly Metz – Social Media Guidelines

FROM STEVE BUTTRY:

• Include a link in your Twitter or Facebook profile
• Why not to sync Twitter and Facebook
• The key to social media ethics: good judgement
• Tips: Use breaking news photos and calls to action

FROM MANDY JENKINS:

• Intro to Facebook for Journalists
• Setting up an All-Purpose Facebook Account
• Sharing Your Content on Facebook
• Accuracy and accountability checklist for using social media
• Facebook subscribe: How to maintain a safe, positive and public life
• How to set up Facebook Subscribe for journalists
• 10 social media guidelines to live by

FROM FACEBOOK:

• Best practices
• Note posts
• Facebook + Journalists
• Facebook + Media
  • Innovative examples of media companies using Facebook for storytelling and integrating Facebook technology into their sites. Also includes product updates on social plugins, etc.

FROM POYNTER:

• How to verify – and when to publish news accounts posted on social media
• 5 small steps journalists can take to build bigger, more engaged audience
• How to use social networks to brand yourself as a writer
• How open-ended questions on Facebook can spark story leads
• How to effectively use Facebook mentions to engage users, share content
• 7 ways journalists can make better ethical decisions when using Facebook

MORE RESOURCES:

• Mashable: The Journalist’s Guide to Facebook
• Ben LaMothe – Can a Facebook Fan Page Be an Online Community?
• Lauren Drell – How Journalists Are Using Facebook to Share the News
• Kim Wilson – How to Deal w/ Trolls and Potty Mouths on Your Newsroom’s Facebook
• Cory Bergman – How people are engaging journalists on Facebook
• Chris Snider – Reporters that are doing social media the right way
• Sandy Carter – 4 steps to creating a social media listening strategy
• Corina MacKay – 3 tools to store and search your social media activity
• Andrea Vahl – 5 ways to control your Facebook privacy
• Lauren Fisher – Why Journalists should use Facebook more
• Daniel Victor – How to go viral on Facebook: Put it in an image
• 10,000 words – ProPublica image goes viral on Facebook

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