Speedwriting for multiple platforms seems contingent on preparation, organizing your time and using the applications that save time and effort.

Sharon Chan’s (Seattle Times) use of analytics to determine when to blog to garner the most eyeballs, she said, also helped organize her day better, while apps like Timely made it easier to schedule tweets so she wasn’t burning out her entire day on Twitter - this is stuff that took her two years to figure out so she could balance enterprise reporting with her multimedia coverage.

And Maggie Leung (CNN Wire) with witty bluntness broke down the process of how to come up with a lengthy piece within minutes: to prewrite as much as possible while waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I loved how Thomas Flauding (The Plain Dealer) reminded us that Twitter is ultimately the most successful in engaging people as part of a conversation. He said journos that fielded live questions from readers about stories they were covering — from the mundane, such as what the accused was wearing at trial, to the personal — saw a spike in traffic.

— Susan Oh