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Not really a social media tool for journalists, but a useful free (with limitations) product for creating newsletters.
I have added it following a request to Media Helping Media from a journalist in Africa for advice on newsletters and templates, so I figured others might value knowing that this exists.
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Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you're reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share them for you through the day.
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Free tools that enables you to enhance images with text in less than 30 seconds and attach to social media shares. A good way of getting some extra info out with your tweets.
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Search engine for visual inspiration and free stock photos for the advertising community including images of creative commons and public domain.
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A great free tool for an easy search of Flickr for Creative Commons images that you can adapt and use. The format is neat once you set the search conditions. Gives you the download options and the html code for the attribution. Speeds up my usual Flickr or Creative Commons search for images.
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Hootsuite app directory.
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This is a great free app to show what key words your followers are using. So, if you are a news site pushing out tweets on the top stories, you can monitor how those tweets were received and shared and, if necessary, respond by following up on the issues raised. It makes it easier to monitor and respond to the conversation created by your content. 
Nanpon Dakat's curator insight,
September 17, 2014 6:04 AM
Politics of self interest and misinformation at the end of Nigeria's possible collision with posterity. claims and counter claims. missing public funds syphoned for purchased of armament intended for the massacre of tax payers a chunk of whom are poor and already over burden by the tyranny of a select few.
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Bring Your Stories and Ideas
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Great tool for creating either a standalone blog/news site or compiling reports to embed elsewhere.
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Whether you’re writing a blog post, email, or job application, an extra pair of eyes can really help get your message across. Poetica makes it easy to ask friends and colleagues for instant feedback on your text. It’s for anything you’re struggling to write, anywhere on the web.
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Wickr - Self-destructing messages, photos, videos and more. Wickr's mission is to provide secure communications that Leave No Trace. People are being tracked online and their information is being sold in ways they do not understand by numerous governments and corporations throughout the world. Your private communications are worth money. Online communications should be untraceable by default.
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Below, Kara Oehler, Jesse Shapins and James Burns, the co-founders of Zeega, a Knight News Challenge winner, write about the ...
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Telling stories with maps.
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From the site: "StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. StoryMapJS is currently in an alpha release, which means that we're looking for early adopters to try it out and give us some feedback. We're working on a user-friendly authoring tool, but for now, you will have to be comfortable looking up the geocodes for your locations yourself and creating a JSON data file. If you're ready to get started, read our advanced documentation and give it a try. You can use our support forumto post questions, or email support@knightlab.zendesk.com." 
Carol Zuegner's curator insight,
April 28, 2014 10:28 AM
This is a tool and a practice I want to do more with. Maybe with the backpack in Alaska.
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This looks really intuitive. A simple interface with stunning results. Would be great for journaists producing updates for tablets, smartphones or email newsletters. 
Robin Good's curator insight,
October 27, 2013 3:09 PM
Lucidpress is a web app which allows you to design, layout, format and publish most any type of document or publication without needing to buy an expensive software program. The key advantage of Lucidpress is that it offers one editing environment to prepare both print and digital publications for the web or mobile devices. Final work can be exported to high quality PDF files, or to JPG, PNG or PDF files for individual pages. Lucidpress integrates with Google Drive and it allows to easily import texts, images as well as video clips from YouTube. My comment: There is certainly a need for an easy-to-use web-based design environment for pubs of all kinds which Lucidpress attempts to intercepts. The design app is quite powerful and well designed but unless you are a designer you are going to be disappointed with the results. Available templates are few and very old-fashioned. This is probably the area where Lucidpress has the maximum opportunity for improvement. Integrating quality design into the service and non-design customers will do the rest. Free to use. Try it out now: https://www.lucidpress.com Tutorials: http://support.lucidpress.com/categories/20121236-Tutorials 
Margaret Waage's curator insight,
October 30, 2013 4:46 PM
I'm testing this right now...looks like a wonderful tool. Many thanks!!
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Use Videolicious to make and edit professional-quality video, automatically. Just choose your shots and Videolicious does the rest.
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Videolicious added to The Social Media Kitbag for Journailsts. Last week I added the Android app for making news videos - StoryMaker - this one is for IOS and claim to be planning to roll out an Android version.
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Present.me - the video presentation platform. Share all your presentation content in one place. Slides, slides and audio, slides and video or just video. No software to install, all you need is your slides, a webcam and YOU!
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Could this be used by journalists to create short news bulletins? Has anyone any experience of doing so? Please share.
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Scoopshot gives you authentic and unique photos and video directly from your audience. Engage your audience directly on their mobile phones!
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From the site: "Scoopshot is a crowdsourcing service for news photos and videos. We give you unique content and direct access to mobile photographers around the world." 
helpingmedia's comment,
April 9, 2013 3:35 AM
It seems a useful tool. Free of charge to download, use and upload material but check the copyright notices on the Terms and Conditions to check who owns what and when that changes. I mailed them asking whether there was a Creative Commons option for those more interested in reach rather than revenue and the answer was "for the moment we do not support the CC license model, although situation can change in the future." Would be a good option to add.
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Ivy enables your visitors to highlight quotes from your content and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Easily install it on your site in under a minute!
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Great tools for enabling the audience to share the parts of your content they find appealing.
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Design graphics for social media posts, presentations, podcast covers, posters or Facebook covers.
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Canva - free social media graphics tool added to The Social Media Kitbag For Journalists.
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Embedly delivers the ultra-fast, easy to use products and tools for richer sites and apps.
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This is an excellent free tool for enriching content with components/assets that can be embedded with a couple of clicks and shared with a few more.
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Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web.
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Looking forward to the release of a Mac version and have put my name down to be informed when it's ready.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial/tableau-mac-coming-soon
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Captricity incorporate human intelligence with OCR / ICR in order to transcribe handwriting & text on forms into a spreadsheet or database.
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Discover the upcoming talent in the biggest community of broadcasters, producers, and musicians.
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Could this be useful for exiled media and citizen journalists?
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Pixlr Editor is a free online photo editor with a prefessional touch. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration required jump right in!
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Mix your videos and photos with others around you to automatically create a new kind of movie.
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Real time video and stills news collaboration tool for finding the best live coverage of a breaking/developing news story, mashing it together and producing a broadcast item to publish and share...
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A brilliant way to quote
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Kwout enables you to grab part of a web page and embed the element in a blog or website or share via social media with links back to the original. Could be useful for writing articles where you need to source other sites.
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(PLEASE NOTE: While the Guardian Project is hosting this BETA release, this app and service was developed and supported by a number of organizations. You can learn mo...
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Yet to experiment with this but the video looks great. 
CJCambodia's curator insight,
March 14, 2015 5:45 AM
លោកអ្នកអាចប្រើកម្មវិធី StoryMaker ដើម្បីធ្វើការងាររាយការណ៏ពីហេតុការណ៏ នានាដែលលោកអ្នកបានជួបប្រទះ តាមរយះ smartphone របស់លោកអ្នក ដូចជាអ្នកការសែតអាជីពដូច្នោះដែរ។ អ្វីដែលគួរអោយចាប់អារម្មណ៏នោះគឺ មានទម្រង់បំពេញងាយស្រួល ពីការសរសេរព័ត៌មាន ការថតរូប ការថតវិដេអូ និងការធ្វើបទសំភាសន៏។
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Video beyond the box. Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video.
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From the site: "Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds." 
margarida caetano's curator insight,
March 7, 2015 6:29 AM
From the site: "Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds." |
