Although Facebook and Twitter are very useful for journalists in giving and getting news, there are TONS of other social media outlets that can be used to a journalist's advantage. Today in our journalism class we presented various types of social media apps that can be used by journalists for news aggregation, social media aggregation, organization of news, and many more ways.
My partner and I presented about TweetDeck- an app that started out on mobile phones and is now online for computers. It works by organizing your accounts (business and personal), organizing who you follow (news, reporters, friends etc) and everything is organized and easy-to-read and navigate. This program is excellent for journalists looking to organize all their followers/who they follow/different accounts they have.
Also, another group presented on how Pinterest could be used for journalists, and I was pleasantly surprised by how useful the site could be for journalists. I wasn't aware that so many news companies actually had Pinterest accounts. I have always held back from making an account because 1. It's another reason for me to procrastinate and 2. I thought it was just for materialistic things like puppies and clothing. However this is not the case; you can follow boards that offer news and other important things, not just kittens and shoes.
The other social media apps that were presented were pretty cool too. I just had no idea that there were so many other social media sites that can aid a journalist in finding news but also getting their stories out to the public. This was a pretty useful project and I'm glad there were some sites that people didn't even know about. I am excited to try some of these out, especially when I have my internship this summer--I can offer ideas for my newspaper to use these sites now that I know a little bit about them.
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