SOCIAL NETWORKS

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BLOGS
Blogs are the calling card of a good digital journalist . They offer great flexibility when it comes to publishing texts and including images, videos or podcasts to make it more attractive to the public, so they are the best way to spread the content you have already created on the platforms we have shown you. If you want to get started in the blogosphere, these are your main allies:

Wordpress
It is the best-known platform for creating blogs and the most used by users around the world. It is easy to use and can be accessed from mobile devices. Although the free version already offers a large catalog of applications and plugins, if you are interested in exploring everything it offers, they also have a paid version. If you want to become an expert in Wordpress, remember that there are free courses that you can access.

Blogger
It allows you to create your own blog for free. Although it does not offer as many possibilities as Wordpress, it is one of the best alternatives to get started in the world of blogging.

Some digital journalists prefer to use their own websites to distribute their content . In this case, it is best to control the process from the beginning, so having knowledge of computers and programming can be very useful.



Digital cyberspace and social networks have become one of the best showcases for spreading news . Any of the most popular ones, such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, offer digital journalists a speed and visibility that would otherwise be very difficult to achieve. The possibility of creating live videos, as offered by Facebook, Instagram, Periscope or Snapchat , as well as the immediacy provided by stories, stories that are deleted after 24 hours, provide a new way of doing digital journalism.

The new technology journalist must have a community manager side and know how to apply digital tools to bring multimedia content to his community . He must bring out all his professional skills as a journalist to know how to write good texts that engage many people, so that they end up following his publications and the benin phone data community grows ever larger. Although the number of followers is not the most important metric, knowing how to do good digital communication will result in increased interaction. Comments, shares, likes and other actions on social networks represent a kind of citizen journalism. Where before, in the traditional newspaper there were letters to the editor, now in digital editions, there are comments on the web and on networks, which means immediate feedback on the quality of the type of journalism we are generating.



Training to be a good digital journalist
These are just a few of all the tools that the Internet offers, but there are many more . Knowing them is only the first step. Although experience is important, training to be a digital journalist is essential to becoming a good communicator . Fortunately, there are numerous free courses that you can take to improve your skills, so what are you waiting for? Get ready to work as a digital journalist!