Newspaper pros, students Tweet conference events

There’s a whole lot of tweeting going on this week from the Newspaper Association of America and American Society of News Editors event in Washington, President Obama speech included… and some excellent use of their conference “hashtags” on Twitter, with links to stories by student journalists and others.

Even if you don’t have a Twitter account (but you should!), you can follow the links from the event-specific tags NAAmXc, ASNE12:

• https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23NAAmXc
• https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23asne12
• https://twitter.com/#!/NAAupdates
• NAAmediaXchange
• Note that organization-name hashtags are risky…  producing links to everything from aviation to the National Autism Association https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23NAA
• Other confusion “@asne” is not the American organization; it’s someone in Osaka who hasn’t used the address, but got there first. The American Society of News Editors website is asne.org (not .com; that’s someone else again) and its Twitter handle is @NewsEditors:  https://twitter.com/#!/NewsEditors

Samples of what’s going on, in no particular order — also interesting folks to follow if you do have a Twitter account. (Mine is https://twitter.com/#!/bobstep) Admittedly, this is not journalism; it’s cutting-and-pasting links so that I can find them later myself…