Review of Session

photo taken from room214

Last Friday, Kathryn Corrick, a digital strategist at McCann Erickson, came to our class to talk about social media and more research tools for journalists. I thought this is going to be another repetition of the stuff we talked about in class, such as delicious, twitter and so on.

However, I was very impressed with those dozens of new sites and possibilities she showed us. First of all, she said journalists with Iphones were quite behind. I swore to myself not to buy one of these things ever. I guess I have to, now.

I think the search tool addictomatic is brilliant. It gives you the most recent news on a certain subject on twitter, blogs, youtube and so on. I haven't signed in for Brightkite yet, but what I heard intruiged me. It is a location-based network where you can check out what friends in your area are up to.

What? Another social networking site? At the moment I am a member of four networking sites, including Facebook and Myspace - and it takes half an hour in the morning to go through all of them. Now, Friendfeed should solve that problem by showing me all updates on networking sites at one site. However, your friends have to use friendfeed as well in order for you to get updates.

Twitscoop is showing you what the most used words at the moment are. This could be quite useful when writing news stories for Debell Publishing as I always have to be as up-to-date as possible.

Some sites she mentioned were very hard to get into. I did not manage to use sites such as Marumushi or silobreaker in the way Kathryn Corrick showed us.

But all in all, I enjoyed her talk and I was proud that she liked our group blog wandersee.