Ideas for using smartphones to report news
Here is a pretty cool Google Docs slideshow on using smartphones to report by Tiffany Campbell, producer, lead for web enterprise, seattletimes.com.
Some highlights from the slideshow:
- Slide 12: An iPhone photo was used for A1 by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
- Slides 24-32: Livestreaming via smartphone
- Slides 35-37: Using Posterous for mobile blogging
- Slides 39-41: Mobile mapping
- Slides 46-59: Mobile apps for journalists (I'm sure Ian will like seeing Google Voice on Slide 59)
- Slide 60: Downsides to mobile reporting
- Slide 61-62: If you cannot read the whole slideshow - be sure to check out these two summary slides
- Slide 64, 67-70: Tiffany shows great tripods for smartphones - I'm gonna try to get one of these for our newsroom right away!
- Slide 65-66: Super-helpful battery pack list
