Great article about Facebook in current issue of Newsweek
August 13, 2007
Over my last several month’s worth of presentations, I’ve been telling a lot of journalists they should join (or at least try to understand) Facebook.
This week’s cover story in Newsweek is a great overview of Facebook by Steven Levy. If you still haven’t joined Facebook, at least read this story.
Newspapers should be concerned with how the people in their communities communicate and stay informed. That’s just one of the reasons why I think newspaper folks should try to understand and appreciate Facebook.
I would bet that in nearly every city in the United States, the fastest growing …
A few job descriptions for a newspaper’s new-media team
August 1, 2007
I’m always surprised at how the questions and phone calls I get kind of come in waves of specific topics.
The topic that it seems I’m getting asked the most about right now is “will I share our job descriptions?”
That’s a hard one for me because if you ask those who have worked with me, we really don’t have set job descriptions and I’m not sure I’ve ever really told someone what exactly his or her job is.
But when I came to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, all of the positions that were going to be on our new products team had to be …
More answers about our Facebook app and some thoughts on the techie stuff behind it
July 21, 2007
Back in May, our special-projects team here at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive built washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app — The Compass.
I wrote a pretty dang long post about it at that time.
I still probably get at least one or two e-mails and/or phone calls about it each week. And I’m surprised how much it still gets blogged about.
One of the questions I often get via e-mail is “would we do it again?”
Absolutely.
We’d do it differently, but we’d definitely do it again. And probably not for the reasons people think.
I think more and more traditional media companies ought to do more …
Chat transcript about LoudounExtra.com
July 17, 2007
Today on washingtonpost.com, I was a part of a live online discussion with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive CEO and Publisher Caroline Little.
We (well, mostly Caroline) answered questions about The Post’s new/first hyper-local site, LoudounExtra.com.
Here is a link to chat’s transcript on the washingtonpost.com site.
In all of my years of helping to set up live chats on our sites, I’m not sure I’ve ever actually participated in one, so this was a little different for me.
:)
LoudounExtra.com launches …
July 16, 2007
Our team’s first “hyper-local” site for washingtonpost.com launched this morning — LoudounExtra.com.
Because — as far as we can tell — no one knows what in the heck “hyper-local” really means, we decided we’d try to take a stab at what we thought it means with this site. More importantly, we didn’t think it meant a site that was essentially just community publishing.
I *love* community publishing. One of my core beliefs is that newspaper web sites need to be much more of a dialogue. But building a site with essentially just community-publishing tools and calling it “hyper-local” seems a little …
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