by Rob Paterson
January 14, 2010 at 4:59 pm
· Filed under Facebook, NPR, Twitter
Once again – social media such as Twitter are ahead of all other sources.
Here is how the man, Andy Carvin, behind NPR’s brilliant use of these tools is harvesting the last 3 years of work to build the system so that it can help so much.
NPR has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to using social media to do great reporting. So when we saw that they’d created a Twitter list of people tweeting from Haiti, we wanted to know: How’d you figure out those folks were legit?
In the following interview, NPR’s social media strategist Andy Carvin tells us not only how the network is using Twitter and Facebook to find compelling angles and new sources for stories (like this one and this one), but also why you can’t just jump on a social network after disaster strikes and expect it to pay dividends.
BayNewser: When did you decide to create this list and how did you figure out who to include on it?
Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist, NPR Social Media Desk: This isn’t the first time we’ve done this in response to a disaster. In the days and hours leading up to Hurricane Ida last fall, people were concerned it was going to be a bit of a mess, so I quickly put together a Twitter list of local bloggers, local news sources, local broadcasters and others, just as a way of monitoring what theywere talking about. None of us had a sense of where the storm was going to go and how bad it was going to be, but at least this was a handy list both for NPR staff as well as the public at large.
An hour or two after the earthquake in Haiti was reported, I decided to do exactly the same thing again. It wasn’t a big topic of debate. It was just a natural step in helping our reporters and producers do research on Twitter.
The full interview is here
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