20 Online Tools To Improve Your Journalism Career

By Erin Hallstrom Erickson

Chicago Magazine’s Scott Smith revealed 20 tools to enhance your web presence during an ASBPE November webcast. Below are the tools he mentioned as well as examples he provided during the webcast.

Evernote

http://www.evernote.com

14 Ways to Use Evernote: http://bit.ly/ctl176

Tumblr

Tumblr.com

http://newsweek.tumblr.com

http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/

http://ourmaninchicago.tumblr.com/

Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/

http://vimeo.com/10057755

Ustream

http://www.ustream.com

http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-launches-a-live-stream-box-partners-with-ustream/

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com

http://www.cafemagazine.com/index.php/gallery/

SoundCloud

http://soundcloud.com

CoverItLive

http://www.coveritlive.com/

http://www.wbez.org/bhaaga/2010/05/lunchbox-live-chat-archive-episode-11-does-chicago-have-an-image-problem/22872

http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=listliveevents&Itemid=223

Twitter lists

http://twitter.com/#!/HuffPostChicago/lists

http://twitter.com/#!/ChicagoMag/chicago-food-trucks

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Chicago-Food-Trucks-on-Twitter/

Tweetdeck

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

UberTwitter

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/technology_and_gaming/watch/v18601575AxFjn7P5

Twitpic/Plixi

http://twitpic.com/1npots

http://plixi.com/p/56515852

Bit.ly

http://bit.ly

http://bit.ly/aChBOA+

http://bit.ly/cCAoVO+

http://bit.ly/9NlKBC+

QuoteURL

http://quoteurl.com

http://www.breakingtweets.com/2010/03/13/explosions-rock-southern-afghanistan/

http://www.quoteurl.com/v1hho

Google Analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

Google reader

http://www.google.com/reader/

LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/

WordPress

http://www.thefordstory.com

http://www.good.is/

http://triblocal.com/la-grange-la-grange-park/

Disqus

http://mashable.com/2010/11/15/facebook-41-billion/

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