JIC & JIS – New Media Tools

Are you using Google power?

• Searches (Internet, Blogs, Video, Images, News)

• Question (When did California High School open?)

• vs. Answer: *

• Narrow even more + / “”

Media Monitoring

• Visit your favorite news sites (CNN, AP, SFGate.com, Contra Costa Times)

• Or you make a list of media to monitor

• Google News

• Google Alerts

• Record streaming video

Gathering / Listening

• Google Hot Trends

• Google News Timeline

• Yahoo Buzz

• Google Blog Search (just announced at the end of 2008)

• Tweetscan

• Social Mention (SocialMention.com)

Work Smarter!

• RSS Feeds (RSS in Plain English)

Disseminating

• Get on the wire! (You Witness News)

• Blogs & Blogging (Blogger.com, wordpress.com, typepad.com)

• Twitter (Twitter in Plain English)

• Map It! (How to video 3:27)

• Google Maps Mania

• Your Own TV Station (CalFIRE, LAFD, Broadcast LIVE!)

• Your Own Radio Station (Blog Talk Radio, LAFD)

• Podcast (gcast.com, Audacity)

Agencies using New Media

• FEMA / Health & Human Services / Peanut Butter Recall

• Media Shift – Wildfires