US Embassy Social Media Workshop

Fourteen Journalists participants have attended a two days Social Media Work shop organized by the US Embassy at USP, Laucala campus on 4-5 June.

The participants were from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and USP students.

The two days workshop was about how to use the social network to publish stories online.

The topics covered included how to use different software webs as twitter, how to gather and write stories using storify, hootsuite and how to create social media networks.

It was a successful and productive workshop which the participants were able to learn many new things.

It was facilitated by Mathilde Piard from the United States, and was funded by the US Embassy.

Such workshop is very important and useful for journalists to well verse and catch up with changing technology especially with social networking.

Participants of the Social Media Workshop by US Embassy, Suva.