MediaShift heightens its focus on collaboration, a “matter of survival for many journalistic organizations.” New site offers a deep archive of articles and collection of collaboration resources.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on March 26, 2012
Topics: Community, Distribution, Experiments, Resources Tags: Business Models, Collaboration, Partnerships
A living, usable frame for you to use: what the Argo project has explored along the way to multimedia blogging bliss, offers mulch to help your site thrive. “Capitalize, synthesize, harmonize...”
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on March 26, 2012
Topics: Distribution, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Collaboration, Digital Media, Digital Platforms, How To, Matt Thompson, Project ARGO, WordPress
Two days, 300 comments and 50 participants later, what did we learn? Publishers share revenue practices offered in a comprehensive easy to use index to help you hammer out new tracks to prosperity.
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, CRM, Featured, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
Go deep, surface themes, full metal distillation of the forum sliced into a usable body of knowledge you can build on, grow and mulch from. With handy jump links!
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, CRM, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
How-tos of basic business practices Does managing a sales staff stretch your comfort zone? What are all the different products you offer? How much do you pay for paper clips? The content here distilled from the recent JA forum on increasing revenue, where publishers running local and niche news sites shared what they’ve learned about...
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
The metaphor is reborn: “content is NOT king; it is queen. The point is that community building is king.” Does this yield collaboration as offspring? Affirmations and wisdom to inspire
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
Nuggets from two days of talk on money and publishing. How do you build half a dozen revenue streams? What do partnerships look like through a financial lens? Tips to use, connections to make.
Posted by Emily Harris on March 15, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
Got a topic to discuss with your community? Google Moderator helps streamline the process, making it easier for people to post thoughts, offer their comments and ask questions.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 28, 2011
Topics: Distribution, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Collaboration, Google Moderator, Online Conversations, Online Tools, User-Generated Content
This is a quick post for the community, reporting out real time on what’s been developing in the forum over the past couple of days. We convened the conversation in slices: Day one the forum explored collaboration, yesterday we dove into collaboration, today the final segment of this conversation addresses money. The content stream contributors are generously offering insights, curiosity, tools, experience, suggestions, hopes, and frustrations around the question in play. And behind the scenes, crucially, we’re tracking how this is all unfolding.
Posted by Lisa Skube on December 9, 2011
Topics: Blog, Community, Experiments, Technology Tags: 2012 Election, Civic Engagement, Collaboration, Editorial, Elections, Feedback, Forum, Improvements, Revenue, RSS, Sustainability
A powerful crowdsourcing tool, SeeClickFix documents issues that “become the seeds for news stories, investigative reports, and citizen advocacy pieces.” Check out their text and map widget!
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on November 23, 2011
Topics: Community, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Citizen Journalism, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Free Tools, Government Accountability, Mobile, Mobile Technology, Reporting Tools, Tools, Watchdog Reporting