An interesting observation from Spot.us founder David Cohn in this Nieman Lab video interview - readers will pay for stories that explain how things work in their community, but not for think pieces. Spot.us works by inviting members of its community to suggest and respond to story ideas and then to pay for those which they most [...]
Friday, March 6, 2009
More about online community management, this time from Paul Graham of Hacker News, a community site for programmers hosted by YCombinator.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
A few tips on using social media from BBC blogger Robin Hamman: "Social media isn't something you add to a website, it's something you do. When I look back over the social media projects I've been involved in over the years, it's obvious that the key variable upon which success, or failure, is dependent is to what extent social media has actually been integrated into the overall editorial proposition."
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Guardian is increasing community content as part of the ongoing redesign of its website, working closely with social media company Pluck, according to journalism.co.uk.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The folks who told us 67% of Americans are unhappy with the quality of journalism these days may not have come up with any concrete suggestions for how to make them happy again, but Jeff Jarvis has one: invite your readers to collaborate with you.
Monday, January 28, 2008
I posted the other day about Radio NZ adding news feeds on Twitter, which I think is a great move. There are quite a few US and UK news feeds available, but as far as I'm aware RNZ is the only New Zealand news organisation providing feeds to the Twitterati. So well done them.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Peter Horrocks, head of BBC newsroom, posts a speech he made at the University of Leeds' Institute of Communication Studies about where user generated content fits in at the BBC. The BBC is restructuring its newsroom with the UGC team sitting alongside the news teams supplying content for broadcast and web outlets - there's more detail in the post.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Pluck is to supply community tools to Guardian website. This from Press Gazette.
Friday, December 7, 2007
The LA Times has launched a Readers' Representative blog which responds to readers' questions about how it covers stories and why - both on a general level and on specific stories.
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