Archive for March, 2009
So, you have a blog. Now what? Vol. 2: community building
A key part of a successful blog (and getting traffic) is building a strong community. Check out vol. 2 for how to get people to read your blog. Getting people to read your blog is not enough, however. You look at the best blogs and you’ll notice that there are lots of comments after each [...]
Today’s Thought: Free-mium can work
The key to free-ium is making the free version kick ass, while making the premium version kick even more ass. You’ll never up-sell someone to premium if they free version is so crippled that it offers no value. We have to have two gears: useful and really useful.
It’s not what you know — it’s who you know (from your blog)
We’ve all heard this cliche, but it’s true. Connections matter and networking is the name of the game. It’s not that unfair either. Think about it from the position of a prospective employer: Would you rather hire someone you are familiar with and know a bit about their work or take a chance on a [...]
Telecommuting can replace newsrooms
BeatBlogging.Org doesn’t have any offices. There is no newsroom. Jay Rosen and I don’t even live in the same state. Oh, we do collaborate like mad. We just don’t need to be face-to-face to do it. The NYU students who work on the project don’t need to be at NYU or even in the New [...]
We are witnessing a journalism revolution
If you read one blog post this year, make it Clay Shirky’s “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” It’s the kind of thoughtful research and ideas about the future of newspapers and journalism that you won’t find in Time Magazine or The New York Times. It’s the kind of straight realism — and not the radicalism [...]
The real community journalist position the Post needs
The Washington Post has launched a new “community reporter” position that requires more skills than a typical reporter and pays less. What a new media double whammy! In a letter to the newspaper guild that represents Post workers, the Post says the Community Journalist will write for the paper’s Extras, Web, and the daily paper [...]