iPadJournos

The iPadJournos called it a semester with the conclusion of the social media portfolio evaluations on Thursday afternoon. Before a panel of six judges, the students in our Social Media Journalism class presented their blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts as well as one or two extra platforms such as Pinterest, Storify and Google+.

The following are the Storify projects the students in this class produced for their news curation assignment.

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our 15th and 16th week.

Nathan Hughes (@rvabusiness), a co-founder of the Social Media Club Richmond and a local real estate agent, spoke with our class on Tuesday morning. Hughes gave advice on how to build brands and market them efficiently. He said it is important to regularly interact with your followers in order to build relationships and attract prospective [...]

On April 10, our class visited CBS 6 (@CBS6) and was taken on an extended studio tour by Scott Wise (@Scott_Wise), the station’s director of interactive media, who has been working with us on our reporting projects throughout the semester.

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our 14th week.

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our 13th week.

Bryan DeVasher (@BryanDeVasher and @RTDNEWS), the social media editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to our class on Tuesday and reflected on the days when multimedia and social media did not exist. When he started his journalism career, he never would have imagined being in the job he holds today. DeVasher worked for the Daily [...]

Meagan Kelleher, director of web operations at Local TV, spoke with our iPadJournos class last Thursday via Skype and discussed different ways news organizations use to drive traffic to their websites. Kelleher oversees Local TV’s online departments and serves as a guide for online teams like the one at CBS 6 in Richmond.

Here are some of the tasks you need to complete during our 12th week.