Field monitors and Citizen journalists

training day 2By

Aasim Zafar Khan

Recap of Day 1: Mocksituational exercises, being reported in real

time into a group via the FB app

TWITTER

• Twitter is an online social media platform, also known as a micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read text messages of up to 140 characters. These messages are known as tweets.• Twitter stats: Over 500 million registered users, over 340 million

tweets per day, over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

TWITTER

To help you understand, Twitter is like a continuously updated Face book wall. Only messages from the people you choose to follow show up on your screen, and yours only show up on those who follow you.

Steps:• Build your profile (interactive)• Follow users of interest (interactive)

TWITTER

Start sending tweets! (interactive)Important twitter commands:• Follow, un-follow and block• Reply and RT• Hash-tags (VITAL)

What to do when there is no GPRS signal?

TIME NOW TO SEND TWEETS, REPLY, AND

FOLLOW FRIENDS AND OTHER ACCOUNTS OF

INTEREST!

GOOGLE ALERTS

• Google alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc), based entirely on your queries

Uses of Google alerts:• Monitoring a developing story• Keeping current on a competitor or an industry of interest• Getting the latest on personalities

Google documents

• Google documents is microsoft word, excel and powerpoint built into a USB on the web!• Coupled with Google drive, which is a cloud based storage

mechanism, google documents allows you to save, edit and share documents with users online, without the need of storing them offline• Google documents and drive allows you to keep all your important

documents in a cloud based service and edit, share them online.

DROPBOX

• Dropbox is a free, cross platform, cloud based file storage mechanism• Dropbox exists on the web, on your desktop and your mobile phone.• Any file you add to any of these platforms will be automatically

synchronized on all the other dropbox clients. • A public folder is also available so that files that need to be shared

with people is possible

DROPBOX

Steps:1.Create a drop-box account on a laptop2.Install drop-box on your android phone3.Put files into your drop-box folder4.Add files to the public drop-box folder5.Share public link of files added into the public folder

Journalism 101

What are the ethics of journalism? (interactive exercise)• Accuracy• Difference between fact and opinion• Plagarism• Honesty• Privacy• Transparency

Do’s and don’ts of a story

WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW5 of the 6 will do, 6 of 6 will be best.

• Information needs to be full and impartial, independent and accurate• Give equal time and coverage to all parties• Do not use inflammatory language• Do not take sides• Do not exaggarate