Whooie. This was a busy week. It was Social Media Week, which I couldn’t attend any events until Friday because of scheduling issues with work and school. I was able to tweet up a storm from all of the conferences, but as not to drive my followers on @DJShelly crazy, I tweeted from my lesser known account, @DJShellyMishaps. I ended up making it to the Breaking News panel led by Amy Guth of the Chicago Tribune. That led to a lot of interesting discussions regarding if you see breaking news happen, should you report it or should you let it slide and who do you attribute breaking news events when you hear them from someone on Twitter.
I then attended the #SMWReboot panel in the evening led by Bill Adee with Nancy Loo, Robert Feder, Richard Roeper and Steve Dahl all talking about Social Media and news reporting. After the intros, a few of us were trying to keep track of the swear count since Steve dropped one right off the bat. But to the seriousness of it all, it was interesting that Robert Feder, who had been covering the moves of the 3 for years was together with them on a panel about just that plus Social Media. Nancy Loo has been tweeting for awhile and with the amount of influence she has, helped land her the job as fill-in anchor and reporter at WGN TV. Feder took a year off after writing for the Sun-Times for almost 3 decades. Roeper is a comedian doing Radio and writing movie reviews. Dahl started his own podcast and is now charging $9.95 for people to subscribe to listen to him.
Roeper and Dahl were dropping swears and finally Nancy tweeted asking if she should swear. She ended up not swearing at all. Feder censored himself.
Listening to the four speak and tweeting and retweeting a lot of stuff from the conferences on my DJShellyMishaps account really encouraged me to tweet more, without boring the people who listen to death. Feder tweets his columns, Nancy tweets interesting stuff about being an every day on-the-go mom.
I’ll write another blog post later about the all day conference at Columbia College, including two morning panelists getting pulled to do the Keynote plus be there when the High School students were given their awards.
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