Live Chat: Benefits of staffs using Facebook and Twitter

Okay, your students are using Facebook for fun, but how do you find its journalistic purpose?  Aaron Manfull, the Journalism Education Association’s digital media committee chair, Sarah Nichols, adviser at Whitney High School in Rocklin, Calif., and Wendy Wallace, director of Poynter’s High School Program teamed up for one of Poynter’s weekly journalism educators live chats. They worked to answer readers’ questions related to “What Are the Benefits of Engaging Your Audience On Facebook, Twitter, Etc.?”

There were a variety of questions covered during the chat ranging from how one can measure return on the time investment to those simply wanting to know what the point of Twitter is. You can find an archive of the discussion at: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=162593

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