Field monitors and Citizen journalists training day 2 By Aasim Zafar Khan.
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Transcript of Field monitors and Citizen journalists training day 2 By Aasim Zafar Khan.
Field monitors and Citizen journalists
training day 2By
Aasim Zafar Khan
Recap of Day 1: Mocksituational exercises, being reported in real
time into a group via the FB app
• Twitter is an online social media platform, also known as a micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read text messages of up to 140 characters. These messages are known as tweets.• Twitter stats: Over 500 million registered users, over 340 million
tweets per day, over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
To help you understand, Twitter is like a continuously updated Face book wall. Only messages from the people you choose to follow show up on your screen, and yours only show up on those who follow you.
Steps:• Build your profile (interactive)• Follow users of interest (interactive)
Start sending tweets! (interactive)Important twitter commands:• Follow, un-follow and block• Reply and RT• Hash-tags (VITAL)
What to do when there is no GPRS signal?
TIME NOW TO SEND TWEETS, REPLY, AND
FOLLOW FRIENDS AND OTHER ACCOUNTS OF
INTEREST!
GOOGLE ALERTS
• Google alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc), based entirely on your queries
Uses of Google alerts:• Monitoring a developing story• Keeping current on a competitor or an industry of interest• Getting the latest on personalities
Google documents
• Google documents is microsoft word, excel and powerpoint built into a USB on the web!• Coupled with Google drive, which is a cloud based storage
mechanism, google documents allows you to save, edit and share documents with users online, without the need of storing them offline• Google documents and drive allows you to keep all your important
documents in a cloud based service and edit, share them online.
DROPBOX
• Dropbox is a free, cross platform, cloud based file storage mechanism• Dropbox exists on the web, on your desktop and your mobile phone.• Any file you add to any of these platforms will be automatically
synchronized on all the other dropbox clients. • A public folder is also available so that files that need to be shared
with people is possible
DROPBOX
Steps:1.Create a drop-box account on a laptop2.Install drop-box on your android phone3.Put files into your drop-box folder4.Add files to the public drop-box folder5.Share public link of files added into the public folder
Journalism 101
What are the ethics of journalism? (interactive exercise)• Accuracy• Difference between fact and opinion• Plagarism• Honesty• Privacy• Transparency
Do’s and don’ts of a story
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW5 of the 6 will do, 6 of 6 will be best.
• Information needs to be full and impartial, independent and accurate• Give equal time and coverage to all parties• Do not use inflammatory language• Do not take sides• Do not exaggarate