July 2011
7 posts
“Think flexibly. Think loosely. I think there’s a lot of fear and conservatism — not political conservatism, but brand conservatism — around letting loose your team or your voice in this new environment. We’ve done journalism this way for a really long time, we’re really nervous about breaking it up.”
—Questions for Baratunde Thurston: What The Onion can teach real news organizations about social media » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism (via bui)
New design!
We redesigned! Thanks to Ian Hill for putting it together.
While we’re at it, don’t forget to RSVP!!
Less than a month until PubCampWest!
Have you RSVP’d yet?
(P.S. I hope to have this tumblr redesigned VERY soon!)
“Pandering for traffic is not brand building. Winning the respect of your audience is.”
—Lewis DVorkin, Forbes. Journalists and Statistics: Paying Attention to the Data of a New Media World. (via futurejournalismproject)
June 2011
5 posts
5 Guidelines for Community Managers to Have Cross-Cultural Fluency →
pbs.org
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“Twitter for Newsrooms is a bit redundant for me because Twitter is my newsroom,” says Mediagazer founding editor Megan McCarthy. Indeed, I’ve heard many journalists compare watching the news cycle on Twitter to being in a physical newsroom when breaking news would come in on the wire.
Except now, instead of the modest hustle and bustle of a newsroom filled with tens of people, the “newsroom” experience of incoming and outgoing information has the potential to reach millions, with 200 million pieces of content produced a day.
” —Alexia Tsotsis (via soupsoup)
How NPR may scale Andy Carvin’s Twitter curation →
niemanlab.org
Integrating online will be one of the topics we discuss at PubCampWest Aug. 19-21 in Los Angeles. This post from Nieman Lab looks at the challenges faced by NPR’s Andy Carvin (right) when it comes to managing information coming to him from Twitter.
Integrating online will be one of the topics we discuss at PubCampWest Aug. 19-21 in Los Angeles. This post from Nieman Lab looks at the challenges faced by NPR’s Andy Carvin (right) when it comes to managing information coming to him from Twitter.
“During the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, Carvin noted, a rumor spread on Twitter that terrorists were using social media to coordinate their actions — and there was a rumor on top of that that the Indian government had told its citizens to refrain Twitter. ‘So there was a period of several hours,’ Carvin noted, ‘where some of the best eyewitnesses got skittish.’ From what we can tell, he said, the rumor likely started on TV, and found its way to Twitter. ‘But in situations like that,’ Carvin said, ‘I’d want to be able to know, in real time, ‘Who started this?’’”
May 2011
2 posts
More details
The full details of #pubcampwest:
What: We’re looking at tackling at least three topics: Integrating Online, Election 2012, and Reaching the whole community
When: August 19-21
Where: KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum, 474 Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA
Everyone is invited. That means public media folks, bloggers and lay folk.
We’ll have an RSVP link up soon.
Want to help? E-mail Kim Bui: kbui (at) kpcc -dot- org.
Mark your calendar
Be sure to mark your calendar for #pubcamp West Coast, August 19-21. More details coming soon! - Ian
April 2011
3 posts
We have a date!
Save the date for the biggest, coolest #pubcamp the Pacific Ocean has seen.
August 19-21, 2011.
Be there.
It begins....
Yes, we’re holding a #pubcamp this summer for California and the West Coast.
Keep an eye on this space.
