Kasper Sørensen

Online Journalist, Blogger, Social Media Producer, Fly Fisher and full-time Geek

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Google Maps: An essential tool for online journalists

August 7th, 2009

I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out, together with the lovely guys at Seismonaut, what tools are the most essential for todays online journalist (see our list). One thing was to figure out what they were, the other is writing something down that is useful and encourages a hands-on approach. And if it can help eliminate the fear of using that kind of technology at the same time, well, that’s just a bonus.

Here’s a short rundown of the main points in the first draft.

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Posted in Digital Journalism, Tools, Tutorials

Tags: google maps online journalism Tools

JEEcamp: When Journalists get together to discuss entrepreneurship

May 10th, 2009

JEEcamp is over and everyone hopefully got something useful out of the day, I know I did. The room was filled with an entrepreneurial spirit and ideas were flying around all day.

Even though the industry looks pretty dull, the general feeling I got, was that people have now realised that there is no point in trying to desperately hold on to your job, but now is the time to look forward. Naturally, this forces people to think of new things rather than trying to fix the old, – exciting I think.

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Posted in Digital Journalism

Tags: jeecamp journalism media

Live Coverage of JEEcamp

May 8th, 2009

During the JEEcamp unconference I was live blogging the event using CoverItLive. The full transcript is still available here. I also did some videos along the way, scroll down and enjoy.

CoverItLive:

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Posted in Digital Journalism

Tags: business jeecamp journalism media online journalism

Live blogging JEEcamp: The Journalism Enterprise and Entrepreneurship unconference

May 7th, 2009

JEEcamp 2009

Tomorrow I will be live blogging from JEEcamp – the Journalism Enterprise and Entrepreneurship unconference. Joining me, will be a team of online journalism students from the Birmingham City University, some of which are also hard working reporters at my little baby; Birmingham Recycled. We will be using a variety of tools including CoverItLive, Qik, Bambuser, Flickr and of course twitter.