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Mandy Jenkins, Social Media Producer for TBD.com, spoke to our COMM 361 Online Journalism class on Tuesday, Feb. 10.  A graduate of Kent State in Ohio, Jenkins’ background is mostly in online journalism.  Before TBD, Jenkins began her own blog titled “Zombie Journalism.” 

Jenkins advises that the best way to get jobs and to get noticed is to do good work and connect with people individually — people you want to emulate and work with.

TBD is a local news Web site for the D.C. metro area, including Northern Virginia and parts of Maryland.  It employs 15 reporters and has built a blog network of over 200 local bloggers. 

Jenkins said that forming good relationships with people is the only way to obtain good news.  Tipsters are quoted and credited in TBD news stories.  As a result, they are eager to come back and help again.

Online sites recommended by Jenkins:

• Hootsuite.com / Twitterdeck.com — lists other people with the same accounts; has news source lists 
• Twellow.com — like a Yellow Pages for Twitter
• Trendsmap.com — lets you see news bubble up on national and international maps
• Storify.com — lets you build a story that pulls in tweets, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube; embeds Web sites into the story; can write all your text around it

 Note:  Jenkins did not use the word “persistence” in her presentation, but she certainly personifies the concept.

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