#Tip: Watch video of social video panel from Social Media Summit

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The BBC College of Journalism has posted video on YouTube of a panel on creating social video, which was held at the Social Media Summit in New York last month.

The panel featured Roy Sekoff, president and co-creator of HuffPost Live, Katherine Zaleski, managing editor of NowThis News and Olivia Ma, head of news and media partnerships at Google+. Watch the video below to hear more about some of the different approaches being taken in making video a more social experience for news consumers, across platforms.

And here’s more on HuffPost Live as well as NowThisNews, on their approaches to social video,

Hat tip: Paul Bradshaw, who also posted the video on his Tumblr

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#Tip: Videonotes can streamline online research

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Keeping track of notes when researching a story can sometimes be a struggle, especially when they refer to online resources. Videonotes (not to be confused with VideoNote) can help to ease the process by letting you tag notes to any video from around the internet, as this article from The Next Web explains.

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#Tip: Timeless tips for video journalists

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We might be hurtling ever forward into a future of digital possibilities but sometimes the old advice is still the best. It’s why print journalists are taught Orwell’s five rules for effective writing, published in 1946, and also why video journalist Cyndy Green chose to highlight the unearthed ‘hints to newsfilm cameramen’ by Paul Desdemaines Hugon, news editor at Pathé News, from 1916.

She offers some of the best snippets of advice, as well as linking to where the full transcript first appeared on the web, but you could probably skip the bit about sending a telegram to the editor once the negatives are shipped.

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#Tip: Producing multimedia with online in mind

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Journalism academic and founder of the Online Journalism Blog Paul Bradshaw put together a Storify last month looking at different ways news outlets have presented multimedia online. In the Storify Bradshaw highlights some of the key features of video and audio made with online in mind, compared to coverage on more traditional broadcast platforms.

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#Podcast: A look at the different ways news sites use live video

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News outlets are often looking at new and interesting ways to use video to tell stories online, and live video offers news sites a great opportunity to offer audiences different live experiences of the news agenda, from as-it-happens coverage at the heart of the story, to live video discussions in a news studio environment.

In this week’s podcast we look at some of the different ways news outlets – including the Telegraph, Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post – use live video on digital platforms and some of the benefits they enjoy as a result.

In order of appearance, the podcast hears from:

• Jonas Vig, co-founder and chief executive, Bambuser
• Nick Martin, news correspondent, Sky News
• James Weeks, head of video, Telegraph Media Group
• Sue Brooks, director of transformation, Associated Press
• Andy Regal, executive producer, Wall Street Journal Digital Video Network
• Roy Sekoff, president/co-creator, HuffPost Live

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Video interview skills

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On Poynter Casey Frechette offers some useful pointers on carrying out video interviews, from planning through to filming.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Read this advice on interviewing for video

Poynter has published a guide headlined ‘What journalists need to know about interviewing for video‘.

It contains advice on audio, lighting, framing a shot and the interview itself.

It is worth reading and bookmarking this link.

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The Sun launches ‘multimedia studio’ with video webchat

The Sun has launched a new “multimedia studio”, which it used this week to host a video webchat with actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The studio will not be in full-time use until February, but Schwarzenegger helped open the studio on Tuesday (22 January).

The 30 minute webchat used the Showcaster platform to provide live video from their new studio, alongside a chatbox in which users could post questions. The questions were moderated and put to Schwarzenegger by showbiz editor Gordon Smart.

A video of the interview was then posted on the Sun’s online ‘showbiz’ section, accompanied by a write-up of the interview focusing on the show-business related aspects of his answers.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Try online video editor Weavly

Weavly is an online video editor which allows you to create “video remixes” using multimedia content from YouTube, SoundCloud and Loopcam.

Editing is done inside the browser.

Weavly has created a page for journalists which explains the benefits and copyright.

It’s worth checking out to Weavly, which is still in beta.

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App of the week for journalists: Splice, an easy video editor

App of the week: Splice

Phones: iPhone

Cost: Free (£2.49 to go ad-free)

What is it? Splice is an easy-to-use video editor for iPhone. The best thing is that you won’t need to read a guide to the app before using it.

You can batch add video clips or photos already on your phone, trim the clips and select transitions and add titles.

It is fairly intuitive but if you get stuck there’s a short video that will get you started.

You can export to the iPhone’s camera roll and from there you can send by email, upload to YouTube or connect your phone by USB and add the edited video to your computer.

How is it of use to journalists?

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