Online chat between journalists, bloggers and public relations professionals reaches one-year milestone
Monday night #journchat still going (and growing) strong
11.23.2009 – The #journchat conversation which takes place Monday nights from 8-10 p.m. EST via Twitter turns one year old today.
The chat between journalists, bloggers and public relations professionals explores each industry's integration with social media while creating and cultivating relationships. Each Monday 200+ participants send questions to the moderator, Sarah Evans (@journchat), and respond to others' comments.
The first chat was held on Monday, November 24, 2008.
For the first six months, the chat was the number one trending topic on Twitter and it is estimated that more than 6,000 individuals have participated (whether passively or actively) with more than 110K lifetime tweets.
This past year #journchat has had featured guests (who responded to non-stop questions for two hours), including:
Jennifer Preston, social media editor, New York Times
Steve Brusk, national assignment editor, CNN
Adam Ostrow, managing editor, Mashable
Richard Laermer, founder, Bad Pitch Blog
What's next?
The first #journchat LIVE was hosted on August 17, 2009 with seven locations across the United States and Canada, in addition to the online forum. The announcement of the next LIVE date is coming up in December.
The chat has had several sponsors who pay to have their message shared with participants at key times during the chat. Prior to sponsorships beginning, a poll was sent to participants to ask permission. In 2010 an exclusive chat sponsorship will be announced.
#journchat success stories will also be shared in 2010. Several participants have shared how they landed a job, internship, story or source from those they met in the chat. Stay tuned!
Improvements currently up for consideration are: weekly themes and/or topics, chat questions selected and submitted in advance of the chat (via the #journchat Facebook group) among others.
HOW TO:
All tweets are tagged with #journchat which makes following the discussion very easy with applications like TweetChat or TweetGrid. Transcripts from each chat are sent via @PRsarahevansimmediately following the chat. A transcript for the month of November can be found, here.
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- The #journchat conversation takes place Monday nights from 8-10 p.m. EST via Twitter between journalists, bloggers and public relations professionals. Each Monday 200+ participants send questions to the moderator, Sarah Evans (@journchat), and respond to others' comments.
- The first chat was held on Monday, November 24, 2008.
- More than 110K #journchat tweets have been sent this past year.
- The first #journchat LIVE was hosted on August 17, 2009 with seven locations across the United States and Canada.
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