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WashPo trials a visual commenting system

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans [...]

EveryBlock releases source code

Monday, July 6, 2009

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If you’ve ever looked at everyblock.com and wondered how they do it, wonder no more. The creators have released the source code used to develop the site. Thanks to Kirk LaPointe for the link. EveryBlock is the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, a journalist and programmer, and development team Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, Daniel X O’Neil, [...]

NY Times enlists readers as community reporters

Sunday, June 7, 2009

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The New York Times is asking readers to cover local body meetings as part of its The Local - Fort Greene/Clinton Hill blog initiative.

‘Technology doesn’t create community’

Sunday, May 3, 2009

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Via @shanerichmond comes another list of pointers on running good communities online.

Community management: a first-hand account

Friday, March 6, 2009

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More about online community management, this time from Paul Graham of Hacker News, a community site for programmers hosted by YCombinator.

Online community management 101

Monday, February 23, 2009

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Here are some notes from a workshop I participated in at Webstock about managing and sustaining communities online. It was led by Heather Champ, community manager for Flickr, and Derek Powazek, founder of Fray and more recently MagCloud, a web-to-print publishing site I've been meaning to link to for a while (but that's for another post).

News companies could do more to lead the conversation

Sunday, December 7, 2008

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I can't remember where I picked up this link to Seth Godin's post on how the New York Times could do better, but it's a goody. A couple of points from it: 1. Use their influence and brand to enable users to spread their content. Why, precisely, aren't the Zagats guides a NY Times product? Or Yelp? That's a quarter of a billion dollars worth of value that the paper with the most influential restaurant reviews page didn't create. Why didn't they build Wikipedia? Or a platform to influence the way politicians govern?

Pitfalls of citizen journalism

Monday, November 17, 2008

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This is out of date but something I wanted to remember (and my blog's as good a place as any to store things I want to refer to later). It's a cautionary note on citizen journalism, and specifically on CNN's experimental iReport site, from Crowdsourcing author Jeff Howe. "As many of you already know (certainly the readers of my book), I'm ambivalent about the usefulness of crowdsourcing in journalism. Today (October 3, 2008) proved my ambivalence isn't misguided.

Figuring out the building blocks of news communities

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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The prospect of (some) journalists becoming community managers over time continues to appeal to and intrigue me. By that I mean journalists opening up the news gathering, reporting and analysis process to readers, allowing communities to develop around areas of interest - enabling people with expertise and views to contribute material for news stories on, say, how health is administered in the Waikato, or pest management in the Waitakere ranges. The journalist becomes a community manager as well as news gatherer and news writer. Building communities, however, doesn't necessarily come easy.

Tips on managing blog comments

Monday, April 7, 2008

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UK blogger Martin Belam has been running a series on making the most of comments on blogs. It's quite wide-ranging and I'm finding it useful (especially in reinforcing my intention to move on from Blogger at some stage to a platform with more functionality). In this post he talks about how to engage with people commenting on blogs.

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