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Social Bookmarking for Journalists

Perhaps you've heard of social news sites before. Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Reddit let readers decide what the most important news story of the day is. But journalists can use these as tools to stay informed and spread their work around.

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If You Are A Journalist Social Bookmarking Can Work Wonders For You

For a longer introduction, read this Columbia Journalism Review article I wrote: Digg This

The short introduction: I am a journalist first, but have found that social bookmarking has helped me (a. Network (b. Find new sources (c. Stay informed and (d. Get my stories in front of more eyes.

If you want to be a Wired journalist - you should start bookmarking.

The goal of our first discussion is to find out what different social bookmarking sites there are and how they are different. This is a place for introductions to the concept.

The second discussion is more about utility: How can journalists leverage social bookmarking.

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Beth Lawton Comment by Beth Lawton on March 31, 2008 at 6:50am
Wasn't sure if y'all had heard about this... Publish2 is launching a Digg-type site, but only (pre-approved) journalists will be able to vote on the stories. It was in TechCrunch today. Here's the link:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/publish2-to-launch-digg-variation-as-journalist-resource/
 
 

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