 Crowdsourcing for reporting  Monitoring For trends, conversation, what is happening in community.  Finding sources  Inspiration – story ideas

 Digital reporter Digital reporter  Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing

 Jake Tapper of ABC News:  A health insurance company raised its premiums in California, affecting thousands of people. He sent a tweet out to his followers, asking if any of them were members. tweeted she was. He followed her, got her information through DM, ed her, verified her situation and sent a camera crew to her.  “The next morning she was on ABC's Good Morning America. There is no way I could have done that before.”

 Denver Post: Parents raiding their children’s credit during the recession  Looking for a 20-something person whose credit had been trashed by parents who had taken a social security number for loans and other credit services  Found her through Twitter

 Picking the brains of smart people and influencers.  Great way to monitor news, events and happenings in your community.  Inspiration for story ideas.

 A great way to organize Who you follow Who follows you Accounts you may not officially follow but want to keep track of.

 Twitter suggestions  Look at the followers of people you follow

Topsy – idea-generator Topsy WeFollow – can search for experts, influencers WeFollow Twellow – a mixed bag Twellow Listorious – find followers and experts. Twiangulate – discover inner circles. Twiangulate Socialmention – real-time search Socialmention Advanced Twitter search – by subject or location Advanced Twitter

 You can make your list private or public.  You’re the only person who can see your private account.  But because your account could be hacked, don’t put confidential sources in public or private lists.

When you follow someone, Twitter will suggest others You can add the followers of the people you follow You can follow the lists of others

 Need to be strategic  Need to be constantly adding and deleting.

 Twitter hashtags City University State government Schools

 You’ll want to focus on creating one place where you can stay current on events and be inspired.

 Hashtracking  report/?hashtag=j491 report/?hashtag=j491  Twitter reach: 

 Advanced Twitter search Advanced Twitter search  Search operators Search operators  Real conversations (no links)  -filter:links

 During breaking news, look for secondary hashtags  In a big breaking story, retweets and commentary around the country might quickly overtake the hashtag. To find local people tweeting what they saw or experienced, use advanced search to search the hashtag with a location filter close to the scene.

 Reddit Reddit  Reddit community is generally smart and extraordinarily resourceful, which Denver Post found during Aurora shooting. (Dan Petty)Aurora shooting  Petty watches the sub-Reddit for Denver closely. 

 Finding people  Real-time public posts  Contacting a source  Crowdsourcing – asking for storm photos, for example.

 Unpredictable. Like a Google personalized search, but with a stronger reliance on social connections over any other ranking factors.  It relies on exact match and lacks the flexibility advanced operators.  Unlike Twitter search, you can't exclude one word while including another one. You can't filter results by location, etc.

 Facebook Facebook  Openstatussearch.com Openstatussearch.com

 Advanced Search to find contacts. Sort the results by degrees away from you and then request an introduction from one of your connections so that the source will be more comfortable with you. Advanced Search

 Let the story come to you! Keeping an up- to-date, robust profile ensures that potential sources will find you when they are seeking to tell their story.profile  Ask a private question to your network to find the right inside connection or piece of information. Ask  LinkedIn for journalists LinkedIn for journalists

 TwitZip TwitZip

 How a reporter used it. How a reporter used it.

 FourSquare FourSquare  Use Storify to search tweets by location.Storify

 Build your credible online news source network before news breaks.  Map out connections between sources.

 IFTTT IFTTT  Hootsuite Hootsuite

 Cull, hone and perfect your feeds.