The Evolving Newsroom

‘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.

Communities, tips

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).

Communities, flickr, Fray, management, webstock

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.

clay shirky, Communities, Journalism, latimes, webstock

‘Content is no longer king; context is’

Friday, September 12, 2008

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Food for thought from BusinessWeek, a US publication experimenting with involving readers in magazine issues from conception through publication and subsequent debate. "[The idea] is to reinvent journalism as a process that involves the reader in the front end, to advocate story ideas; in the middle, to inform the reporting of a story; and in the end, to expand on the conversation a story creates. That latter conversation is not a letter-to-the-editor monologue, but rather a dialogue between the professional writers and the audience."

business week, Communities, news, reader engagement

BoingBoing makes moderation policies fun

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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Anyone writing a moderation policy for a news website - and there must be a few of you doing just that at the moment - might want to check out BoingBoing moderator Teresa Neilsen Hayden's Q&A on their moderation policy.

boingboing, comments, Communities, moderation