Local Conversations

While working on my screencasting skills; here are a few tips and blog post on personal branding.

Links featured in this video:
http://www.centernetworks.com/power-personal-brand
http://www.google.com/alerts
http://vik.podbean.com/
http://personalbrandingblog.wordpress.com/
http://twitter.com
http://www.ajvaynerchuk.com/protecting-your-personal-brand-on-twitter-twitter-tip/

With my last video from the Next Newsroom conference, I had a chance to interview Kara Andrade who is a Social Media Strategist and Web Editor at Maynard Institute. Kara also trains journalist to use social media tools, mentions how it’s a journalist job to filter signal from the noise, and gives advice for journalist/newsrooms that are looking to embrace social media.

Kara also answered a few questions on how to get started with social media and what social networking sites should newsrooms keep an eye on now.

Video length 4:16

After the Next Newsroom conference Local Conversations sits down with Gary Kebbel of the Knight Foundation to talk about the future of the news and information industry.
Gary talks about how blogs launched citizen journalism and has created the opportunity for everyone to be a publisher.

I asked Gary for advice for existing and future journalist, take a look at his response as his comment mentions how over time journalism will be less controlled.

Gary is the founding editor of USA TODAY.com and Newsweek.com and former editor of the front-page editor of Washingtonpost.com. For more information about Gary Kebbel see is site at http://www.garykebbel.com

After Next Newsroom conference Local Conversations talks with Chris O’Brien about the Next Newsroom project. The Next Newsroom Conference was held April 3-4th at Duke University in Durham, NC. For more information about the conference see: http://www.nextnewsroom.com - http://wiki.nextnewsroom.com