Here's a slightly revised version of the Social Networks: Engaging Users With News webinar I gave to a few hundred virtual attendees when I flew out to the Poynter Institute in Florida in May.

The slideshow offers eight different areas of social networking that news publishers — anyone from a single individual to a full newsroom — can leverage to engage people around news events in a more robust, interactive way. Specifically:

• Blue skies: new approaches to news
• Google Map mashups
• Instant social networks
• Geocoding and citizen photography
• The awesomeness of Twitter
• Widgets: tapping into local conversations
• Facebook & the news
• Community video

Journalism profs, are you paying attention?

This was part of the News University course I taught under the Knight Digital Media Center leadership series. (Go here for the NewsU webinar.)

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