I’m leaving NPR. As a present to myself, I made this guide to almost every single Social Sandbox post from last November to the present, organized by topic. (Here’s the web version if you want to bookmark it or send it to your coworkers or pass along to a friend.) - Mel
(If you want to follow me beyond this, I’m melodykramer and @mkramer on Twitter.)
First up: Why Does the Sandbox Exist? / Best Of / 7 Things You Can Do Pretty Easily Without Wasting a Lot of Time That Will Have a Decent Return for the Amount of Effort You Put In / Make Stories More Shareable with the Quotable Tool / Steal this sign idea from Mountain Stage. It’s smart. / NPR’s mission statement / How to Follow NPR Reporters on Social / Guide to the API
TWITTER TIPS:
- How to see who is following your news organization on Twitter without mentioning your news org.
- Geolocating tweets during breaking news** (without spammers)**
- How to do a great Twitter chat** (**Part Two)
- The best ways to tweet your stuff
- How to do a bilingual Twitter chat
- IFTTT-Twitter Functionality
- How to Issue a Correction on Twitter
- Tweet your stuff, Public Media
- Our human Twitter experiment (and more)
- How to construct advanced Twitter searches during breaking news
- Use analytics.twitter.com to find analytics on your tweets
- You can post animated gifs on Twitter
- Which Twitter platforms are the best?
- Searching Twitter for NPR.org tweets
- Write your tweets in paragraphs
- Scheduling tweets with images (why it’s important)
- A great way to visualize Twitter chats
- Finding connections between tweeters
- Social Media Verification Tips from the Library
- A Nice use of Twitter reply
- Viewing another user’s timeline on Tweetdeck
REDDIT TIPS:
- An Overview of Reddit for Journalists by Tory Starr
- Using Reddit and Quora to scout a new city
- Using Reddit to find story ideas
- Reddit’s Bit Of News Bot and why it’s really smart
- What happens when you allow badging in comment sections
- How to do a Reddit AMA (more) (even more)
FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM TIPS
- How to make Instagram photos look like native Twitter images on Twitter
- How to hold a Facebook chat
- How to Search and Be Human on Facebook
- How to Search Past Facebook Posts
- Should I post that? Some ethical guidelines.
- How to use Facebook’s Graph Search to Diversify Sources
- Really Great Facebook Groups and Newsletters
- How to turn Follow on
- Why a Post on 3-D Printing Did Well on Facebook
- Reusing Evergreen Content on Facebook
PINTEREST/LINKEDIN/TUMBLR TIPS
- How NPR is Using Pinterest (More)
- How to Use LinkedIn for a Callout
- Creating images for Pinterest and Facebook
- Tips for Tumblr
- Planet Money used the Internet to Track down a t-shirt owner
COOL TOOLS
- New York Times crowdsourcing platform Hive
- Every tool and project I learned about at Mozfest
- @findmystation and @similarnews
- 10 interesting things to note and peruse
- Tools and Ideas from ONA
- Personalize stories based on geography
- Soundcite
- Mugs of NPR (ha ha ha)
- The Social Media Team Gets a Cell Phone
- Some commenting tools and talk
- Two lists of Free Tools for Journalists
- Journalism Tools from 2013
LEARN FROM NPR SERIES AND PEOPLE
- Claire O’Neill’s Great Reddit Project
- #secretteachers
- #nprcensus
- Eleanor Kagen on AMA’s social promotions
- Charlie Mahtesian on Reddit chats
- Serri Graslie on callouts on social media
- #nprwolves
- #nprcities
- Gene Demby on Twitter
- #menpr
- Kimberly Springer and archives
- What Lindsay Rae Myers learned at PMDMC
- Sports Reporting at WWNO with Jason Saul
- #bobsmovierecs
- #bookyourtrip
- #guiltyandcharged
- Dana Farrington using images on Facebook really well
- #nprhustle
- #nprgrapes
- #nprwit
- #blacksintech
TIPS
- How to be a mensch on social
- Stop being so apologetic about being ambitious
- You should follow these listservs
- Make your internal emails public
- Really great Facebook groups and listservs to join if you’re a journalist
- How to share during breaking news
- Use your archives (!!!!!!!)
- What we can learn from the Kardashians
- What we can learn from John Green
- Increase engagement using profanity or tagging
- Why it’s important to create social headlines
- How NPR socialized Howard’s mine pieces on social
- How the @nprnews human Twitter experiment went
- Using Quotes to promote stories
- Try posting a piece on Github
- How journalists are using Yo
- Pluck out quotes and facts
- Vacation time is great
- On Sharing, in Public
- Got 20 minutes? Start here.
- What is AR Journalism?
- Newsletters you should read
- Ari Shapiro on social
- On audio and virality
GUIDES
- A Guide to NPR’s Social Media platforms
- An Overview of Reddit for Journalists by Tory Starr
- How NPR is using Pinterest
- Helpful stuff for Election Night
- Why NPR is on Snapchat and Reddit (NPR on Snapchat)
- NPR Foreign Correspondents on Social
- Intro Note for the NPR Summer 2014 Interns
- Prototyping on the Fly
- How NPR Built Our Analytics Dashboard
- What NPR learned from our @nprnews Twitter experiment
- David Folkenflik’s live-tweeting news feedback** (and his tweets)**
- NPR Reporters on Social Media
January 7, 2015