Multimedia for Social Media

What can you do with tools: Organize your twitter life; edit video; make pictures pretty; make gifs; make graphics; create illustrations

SOME SUGGESTIONS

Tool: Piktochart

Good for: Complete infographics

Alternative: Infogr.am

Tool: ThingLink

Good for: A quick interactive experience. Can be layered with a tool like Piktochart to create “roll overs”

Tool: CartoDB one click

Good for: Multi-pin maps, mapping spreadsheets, including more information in each pin, allowing users to contribute

Alternative: Maps.google.com, Zeemaps

Tool: DataWrapper

Good for: Simple charts that are interactive for the user

Alternative: Infogr.am

Tool: Videolicious

Good for: Quick iPhone/iPad video with voiceover track

Alternative: iMovie app

Or: Verse

Tool: Stellar

Good for: Simple audio slideshows that are not completely linear (not every image has to be a photograph)

Alternative: Sway

Tool: evrybit

Good for: Live coverage with photos and video

Alternative: Twitter

Tool: Momento app

Good for: Turning a gallery of photos into a shareable gif

Alternative: giphy

Or: Ripl creates layered, animated images

Tool: Canva

Good for: graphic design; shareable pictures

Alternative: Over

Tool: PowToon

Good for: Explanatory videos that wouldn’t otherwise have good visuals

Alternative: Moovly

Tool: Storify

Good for: creating a narrative around social media posts across platforms; archiving live event coverage

Alternative: Twitter embed

Tool: Facebook live

Good for: video connecting to the audience in real time and providing commentary

Alternative: Instagram live

More great reading

5 quick steps to catchy Instagram captions

https://www.newswhip.com/2017/08/creating-instagram-captions/#6ubuxs6luSpVPObk.99

How to Choose A Social Media Management Tool

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/technology-data/how-choose-social-media-management-tool?utm_source=API+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign

30 of the Latest and Greatest Data Storytelling Tools

https://medium.com/@ToTheVictor/nicar30tools-da83db0f3dc6

Essential Tools and Tactics for Video on Social

https://www.newswhip.com/2016/07/essential-tools-tactics-video-social/#5za0AgTTtJGcDyvq.99

JournalistsToolbox.org

Project today

Our project for the day is to cover the cost of coming to campus. We will create a hashtag together and everyone will choose a tool to tell this story. Find a person, find some numbers, find a quick story and tell it. Post to your own Twitter account with the hashtag and we will come together to talk about what works.

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