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#ONA12 tweets by the numbers

Journalists tweeted 34,505 times with the hashtag #ona12 — or 25 tweets for every 1,400 people at ONA, The Huffington Post’s Craig Kanalley writes today.

Before the tweets disappear, Kanalley used TwimeMachine — a free site that allows you to easily read and search your old tweets — to archive some of them.

He grabbed tweets from 30 Twitter users, who accounted for 7 percent of all #ona12 tweets.

Among them? Journalists from AP, Digital First Media, New Yew Times and -- of course -- Gannett (@kjmcginty).

#twitter #tweets #ONA #ona12 #gannett

ONA 2012: The best technology tools for journalists

Back from the Online News Association annual conference, my head is spinning with a few key topics — augmented reality, data visualization, possible resurgence of audio, reporting on the go, data visualization and the role of social media directors. (And did I mention data visualization?)

Here are resources I’m taking back to my Gannett newsroom after hearing from ONA panelists and participants.

Some are new and have piqued people’s interest. Some still have people buzzing months or even years in.

What should we add? Comment here or tweet me at @kjmcginty.

After the Deadline This plug-in or add-on speeds up the editing process by checking your story for grammar, spelling and style.

Buffer Easily schedule articles, pictures and links to move out via your social media accounts.

Census.IRE.Org IRE led this project to make the 2010 U.S. Census data more manageable for journalists. Next up, they’ll be creating guides to help journalists and will allow you to browse the American Community Survey results.

Chartbeat Chartbeat promises real-time analytics, including how long your audience is actively engaged and how far they’ve scrolled down the page. (Paid service. Free 30-day trial.)

FilterStorm Dessigned specifically for photojournalists, you can edit your photos and send them in via email, FTP, Dropbox or SFTP. ($3.99 in app store)

Gopano Create, share and view 360-degree photos and videos with any camera. (Free in app store)

HyperMac HyperMac is an external battery for any USB-driven device — your iPad, your iPhone, your laptop. "This is a life saver,” Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) promises.

iTimeLapse Create time lapse and stop motion videos from iPhone or iPad. Options include selecting how often to snap photos and how long the video should be. ($1.99 in the app store)

Meograph "Four-dimensional story-telling" This is video meets infographic — combining maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories “in context of where and when.”

Mobile Reporters' Field Guide Developed by UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism, this free PDF or iBook promises to be everything a reporter needs to know when reporting from an iPhone. Search Mobile Reporting Guide in the app store.

Overview "Visual document mining for journalists" Developed at the Associated Press, Overview analyzes the complete text of every document, extracting keywords and sorting documents into categories and sub-categories. Email [email protected] or tweet @overviewproject for your “preview login.”

Podio “An online workspace for everyone” Social work platform for basic project management tasks — calendar, contacts, activity stream — that helps teams collaborate and communicate. (Free and paid versions.)

Reddit “The front page of the Internet” Site tracks what’s new and what’s popular online. Submit your own links, or vote on others to drive what’s appearing on the front page. ("I think Reddit is on the rise," said Liz Heron.)

Reporters Committee First Aid mobile app Free guide gives reporters in the field immediate access to legal resources, particularly in situations where access or news gathering may be stymied. Search "reporters committee" in App Store.

Scribble Live Create, curate and publish content to provide real time coverage and storytelling.

SpliceApp A video editing app that works with music, photos, text or video clips. ($3.99 in app store)

Spundge "Smarter curation, genius content." Read, save, filter and annotate content from the web — Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube included. (Free and paid versions)

Spotify Digital music service gives you access to millions of songs. Consider creating and sharing music playlists from your local music scene.

Storify Take the best of what people post on social media — photos, tweets, videos — and easily publish it into a compelling story.

Topsy Search content published on Twitter and the web, and sort it by date or relevance.

Ustream Broadcast (free) live video to the world from a computer or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows.

Vyclone Record a video at the same time and place as another person, and this app will automatically synch your videos into a single, multi-angle masterpiece (based on GPS). (Free in app store)

Watch Up Tap the news videos you want to watch, creating your own playlist. Then sit back and watch. (Free iPad app.)

Want more? Links to other sources

Amy Webb, founder of WebbMedia, presented the Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012 to a standing-room only crowd — and she wants your input here.

Robert Hernandez posted this collection of multimedia tools a while back that is mostly still relevant.

A "Q and A with Liz Heron on Her Share-worthy Strategies" (via @caseycapachi) here.

Anthony DeRosa, Reuters social media editor, made his #ONA12 notes open here.

Poynter’s 12 bite-size takeaways from the Online News Association conference

NPR's David Wright posted these slides from his presentation, "Design is how it works." (thanks to @macloo)

ONA collected more than 100 articles about #ONA12 via Kippt here.

-- Compiled by Kate McGinty, reporter for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California.

#resources #apps #mobile #video #tools #technology

The Tennessean's Knight Stivender is proud of the site's coverage of Occupy Nashville, which was a finalist in the Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards Breaking News category. The winners were announced Saturday night, September 22. #ona12 #oja12 - Cindy McCurry-Ross

#ona12 oja12 #xs

"Holy Crap! We are working in the future."

Session: Design is How it Works

Presenter: Dave Wright, NPR

Design Problems:

Ads stagnate the design.

Nav has too many choices.

User experience isn't up to par

Design thinking can help:

Context

Research (talk to people about what they want.)

Empathy (user-centered)

Synthesis to insights

Five ways you can improve design

Experience is everywhere, craft an experience that can add value

Get your house in order - silos that don't talk to each other don't work. Traditional baggage: Distribution (manage risk) vs. Content (telling stories). Instead, have overlap - Technologists, Product Shepherds & User Experience. Good experience thrives in organizations where design is respected.

Evaluate & Iterate: If you're not agile, you're doing it wrong. (Small, Multidisciplinary, Empowered, Accountable)

Example: Planet Money: Audio first proposition. Paper prototype, scanned into tappable prototype.

Solving the right problems (Journalists are pre-wired for success: Ask Questions, challenge the status-quo, readers are fickle.) You're probably focused on the wrong ideas (weaponize metrics, use Twitter + surveys and Facebook to ask questions from your audience

Understand how things work. We say "build" for a reason. Have a common language and understand how each other think. Handing a psd file to someone and saying make this doesn't make you a web designer.

Holy Crap, we're working in the future. (Image from "Minority Report".)

— @AmyReadSJ

#ONA12

You can compare by state, see top 10 search terms and rising search terms.

#ONA12 #xs

A Python wrapper for the Associated Press' U.S. election data service.

#ONA12 #xs

Michael Davis, Lafayette Journal & Courier’s executive editor, shows off the newspaper’s iPad app at ONA12. With digital journalism, the future of his newspaper, he says, is going to be as good, if not better, than ever. — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press

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Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, and John Mura, the Courier-Journal, engage in meaningful conversation at ONA12. John talks about his passions: journalism, his wife, his teenage daughter — and fine Kentucky bourbons.

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Designing digital newsrooms

My summary of today's final ONA12# session follows below. A Storify of tweets can be found at http://storify.com/advocateeditor/ona-newsroom-design-session. Designing digital newsrooms of today and tomorrow requires careful thought, organizational skills and the right technology supporting workflow demands. Three speakers at ONA's Saturday session on restructuring our newsrooms focused on a wide range of essential ingredients. Gabriel Sama, founder of Rest of the World Media, has worked with newsrooms around the world on finding the best solutions. He noted creating an integrated newsrooms is not a goal in itself. In fact, the fully integrated newsroom does not exist, nor does the perfect CMS. There is no magic formula, but he does have a process for evluating news operations. Some of his key questions: > Who do we want to reach? How? Why? > Where and what do we want to publish? > How can we do it? News organizations must balance between what the audience wants and needs plus what the audience doesn't know it wants or needs. "The way we perceive ourselves as professionals plays a huge role in what we do, how we do it, how we organize, how we collaborate and how we execute journalism projects," he said. Some tips: Content must be shaped by the the audience, frequency, ...... Be mindful of process. Be aware of culture and values. Care about your business model. It's all about resources. Be demanding of technology. Build in flexibility. Plan for scale. Resources x time = results Focus most on the content that will allow you to differentiate you from others. Steve Hermann, editor of BBC News Online, discussed how BBC is building its new newsroom, which is best described as spokes on a wheel feeding the content to all platforms. A spoke may be the world desk or domestic desk feeding the center. There are no separate newsrooms. Anjali Mullany, social media editor for Fast Company, sees technology and workflow as the key to a successful digital newsroom. "When both work together seamlessly, the most interesting innovations and progress occur," she said. "They absolutely influence the type of journalism you can produce." She spoke about how Scribble Live (scribblelive.com) empowers reporters to publish without editors needed to handle posts and Spundge, an online tool that can help newsrooms communicate and publish stories to the CMS and social media. She stressed one key is got all employees using the same communications systems such as instant messenger. (http://www.spundge.com) She views employees not communicating as a major obstacle to success. One question focused on the importance of showing Web site analytics in the newsroom as one key driver for getting all employees to work together. Posted by Michael Shearer Executive Editor Media Network of Central Ohio

Burt Herman, co-counder of Storify, talks at ONA12 about why he created Storify, what about the platform works — and how Gannett news sites are using it. — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press

#ONA12

Abe Kwok, The Arizona Republic, offers headlines on the Top Tech Trends in 2012 by Amy Webb at ONA12. — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press

#ONA12 #xs

"We knew we had great stories to tell and we wanted to bring that directly to the location."

Colleen Wilson, Executive Director for Interactive KQED

#xs

Journalists share tips and gear recommendations during ONA12's Mobile Storytelling: The Next Level. -- Ed Forbes (Taken with Instagram)

#xs #ONA12 #journalism #mobile

Have you used Google Hangout? Google+ is not an ideal social-media platform, but Google Hangout is gold. Use it.

Robert Hernandez, encouraging journalists to use Google Hangout as an interactive tool during ONA's Mobile Storytelling: The Next Level panel.

#ONA12 #journalism #Google #mobile #xs

It's really about trying it.

SoundCloud's Jim Colgan, calling for journalists to continue innovating and experimenting with mobile newsgathering.

#ONA12 #journalism #mobile #xs

Tools for augmenting mobile newsgathering

A growing arsenal of mobile tools and applications are available to augment today's digital newsgathering.

Robert Hernandez, assistant professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, was part of a ONA12 panel that assessed these tools. Hernandez has curated a selection here.

Of special note, Hernandez argued, is Vyclone, a video and audio gathering app that allows multiple users to capture one event from different angles. Producers log in to Vyclone, begin filming and, in minutes, a stitched together piece with jump cuts is made available.

Pretty cool, especially for coverage of events like demonstrations, panels and breaking news events like fires.

Hernandez also pitched three must-have pieces of gear:

» A splitter that feeds audio from an iPhone to XLR and stereo. $48 from Comprehensive.

» An external battery pack for USB devices. From HyperShop. $70 and up.

» GoPano. An iPhone add-on that allows to film 360-degree panormaic video. Once displayed, a user can manipulate the panorama. From $80.

— Ed Forbes

#ONA12 #journalism #mobile tools #tools

“The biggest frustration of trying to help them (newsrooms) evolve is that our identity as professionals is incredibly strong.”

- Gabriel Sama, Rest of the World Media, at the Designing Digital Newsrooms session

#newsroomdesign #ona12 #xs

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