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“To truly have influence on Twitter, you must retweet other newspapers’ stories and blogs that aren’t affiliated with news organizations; you must really join the conversation.”

Tweet Time for short takes — my best bets from surfing the blogosphere: Community-directed reporting: Daniel Victor, of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, is experimenting with using readers as assigning editors of sorts: He’ll  solicit story ideas from readers as blog comments, and then let other readers vote on which stories he’ll pursue next. It’s a novel [...]

Tweet One way to really get a sense of what people in your niche are interested in is to create a newsletter for your readers. (Now, I’m not talking about an e-mail subscription to your blog or an RSS feed, although those are great ideas you should be doing, too.) This is something more personal, where [...]

Tweet One of the points I mentioned in my tips for fostering an online-first newsroom is that journalists need to connect with readers by creating communities. I think it’s a point that requires more elaboration. What does it mean to create a community of readers? You build out in your geographic area. This means that you create [...]

Tweet Time for some short takes of interesting finds around the blogosphere that relate to journalists and new media: Why things go viral: Why does one blog post end up as the front page of Digg and another doesn’t? Why does one tweet get retweeted a dozen times, and another gets ignored? Figure that out, [...]

Tweet OK, have to brag a bit here. Today, I was featured on Beat Blogging, an initiative of NewAssignment.Net, a research project based at New York University. It’s an informative blog that I read frequently — and that I’d encourage all journalists to read. So I felt pretty proud when NYU student Daniel Marrin contacted me [...]

Tweet I was reading the DigiDave blog, and he was mulling around an idea that he notes others have thought of as well: What if newsrooms had a cafe? He describes a small area that’s a public space. Readers could stop, chat, have a cup of Joe or even search the Web. ” You may [...]

Tweet I love Twitter, and I find it uniquely suited to help journalists create a community, reach their readers and find out what’s buzzing. Here are some tools I use regularly to help me use Twitter to the best advantage. This is a short list. There are many, many other Twitter tools. If someone finds [...]

Tweet I’m finding so much useful stuff on the blogosphere,  I just had to do another short takes. I hope you find them as useful as I did. Crowd sourcing: If you have no idea what crowd sourcing is or how it could work for journalists, you must read this post on Beat Blogging. The [...]

Tweet Here’s part three of my series, what’s an online-first newsroom look like. Today, I’ll talk about what a typical day should/could be like in an online-first newsroom. (Be sure to read the rest of the series: Part one examines the over-arching ideas that form a f0undation of an online-first newsroom; part two examines the [...]