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I have 5 minutes

Jen Reeves — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:14:42 +0000

I was asked to present my experience at the Reynolds Journalism Institute as a member of the first class of fellows. As a faculty fellow, I was able to spend a lot of time working, thinking and trying to institute my lessons learned with my students and my newsroom at KOMU.

Five minutes.

I wish I could really summarize this experience in five minutes. But since I have five minutes, I’m going to focus on how I grew and changed my goals. I first focused on how newsrooms can collaborate. It’s still important… But I learned during this time that even if I find the most amazing way to bring multiple newsrooms together with the help of technology, it isn’t worth the effort if people don’t use the information. That’s why I moved to the most important word for my life as a journalist and as a journalism professor:

Community.

We need to find ways to teach our journalism students and our industry how to respect the process and work it takes to build community. This is crucial as more people turn to journalists for their personal skills and abilities – it’s very possible they aren’t going to them because of their newsroom. We need to be open, honest and connected. Hopefully I can search for ways to share this knowledge so we can all use the great skills of the journalism profession in this new socially connected world.

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What do you think? I’m going to try to say these things in five minutes – but I have a lifetime to try to expand upon these thoughts.

Making a good impression

Jen Reeves — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:53:27 +0000

I’m about to speak to a group of people attending the regional SPJ conference about making a good impression online. Here’s the slides… I’d love your thoughts about how you present yourself – or how you look at possible employees when you are searching online.

Putting Your Best Foot Forward

My attempt at helping journos learn Twitter

Jen Reeves — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:31:10 +0000

I held a brown bag session this afternoon over lunch to show how I use Twitter and why I think journalists should take a look at it as a new news source. It isn’t the end all be all answer to all of our challenges, but I do think it’s a change in how we gather and share news and information.

I loaded up the first half of the presentation… The second half included questions and answers and a little bit of show and tell. If you have questions or need some show and tell, leave a comment here and I’ll see if I can help get you started.

Here are the slides I used during the presentation just in case you’re curious. I ran through a few pretty quickly to get to the second half of the presentation.

Twitter Brown Bag Presentation

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All of my follow up notes to this presentation are a permanent link to the right of the blog called “Twitter Tips.” Please feel free to leave comments here if there are additional details that were missed.

UPDATE: You can go here to watch part 2 of the webcast.

Talking Twitter

Jen Reeves — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:20:20 +0000

I’m planning to speak about Twitter journalism during a lunch time webcast and Missouri School of Journalism brown bag session today. (If you are in Columbia, it’s in the forum on the second floor of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at noon) It should be a lot of fun. If you can’t attend, I’ve written up my notes right here. If you can attend, those are just notes. I’m going to show more examples and field questions from the audience. It may be a packed house. It may not. If you are interested in watching, feel free to visit the RJI website to see the streaming video.

I promise to post the video here as soon as I can get my hands on it. Have fun!

UPDATE – if you go to the RJI website, just click on the “RJI Live” link to the left. And if you want to join in on the Twitter conversation before, during and after the event, please use #tweettalk as the hashtag!

Introducing new ideas… without sounding crazy

Jen Reeves — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:11:02 +0000

I am one of the younger faculty members at the Missouri School of Journalism. I’m also a bit energetic.

Okay. I have a lot of energy.

So when I present the faculty with a new idea or a great concept… Some of them tune me out because they assume they won’t understand what the heck I’m talking about. I get excited about new ways journalists can share information. I get really excited when journalists are only a piece of the news gathering process. I get super excited when life is simplified with the help of technology.

So after enough professors and students asked… I’m putting together a presentation on how journalists can use Twitter next Monday. I’d love to hear the ways you use Twitter so my presentation isn’t JUST my ideas. There are so many different ways, it would be wonderful to get input from places beyond my world so I can prove that I’m not the only person who thinks Twitter is a helpful tool. So please leave comments here or on Twitter or even on my Facebook page if we’re friends. I would love links and stories about successes and failures when it came down to journalists using Twitter. Thanks!!