The ideal Citizen journalist set-up

On the back of the QIK post below i just thought id mention what i think is the ideal set-up for a Citizen journalist.

Of course these days of cross-posting, RSS feeds and social networking site means alot of different services, application and websites all linking into each other and we dont want NewsJack to be left out. Taking that into account, we cant provide everything ourselves (or at least not yet), so in the meantime this is my ideal set up for citizen journalists.


Firts thing you need, (of course im bound to say this) a NewsJack account. So go set up an account and get your channel going.

You'll need a Blogger account for the written word and RSS feeds. There are other blogger sites out there, but this is the one I use.

Get QIK so you can stream live if you need to.


Sign up and install the Locatik which is a really handy location detector, and you can also post up the locations with a link to the video which gets displayed on a Google map for others to browse. Not just useful for NewsJack either, other members post interesting things such as recommendations for eating, tourist attractions, etc.




Hopefully you will also be able to embed your video into NewsJack aswell in the near future, meaning you only have to upload video to your favoured service and then post the code to NewsJack. But thats a little way off yet.


In the meantime the services mentioned above should help you out:)


Jack

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

Yes we love this little app, and anyone thinking of using the NewsJack service should also install this app. Of course its a seperate thing from NewsJack, but we feel it would compliment it so much we have to plug it here:). Ok so the video i have isnt very interesting, (ill try and get something a little more interesting, tricky in a backwood town:)) but the principle that you can stream live from your phone is fantastic:).