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RSS readers reviewed 16 Dec 2009 | 04:19 pm
After talking to beat reporters about how they use RSS to research and report their beats, it seemed appropriate to go a step further and look at some of the technical how. No, I’m not going to try t...
Journalists use RSS to track rivals, news, tweets & other info 2 Dec 2009 | 03:11 pm
This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. RSS is an incredibly useful way for journalists to keep track of beats by watching what is being published online, whether on news sites...
SacBee’s Ortiz takes blog to top by engaging his users 17 Nov 2009 | 01:41 pm
This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. At most news organizations, sports and entertainment blogs rule the roost, but at The Sacramento Bee, Jon Ortiz has been able to take a ...
GothamSchools targets loyal and casual users with different content 12 Nov 2009 | 05:19 pm
This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. GothamSchools, like most news Web sites, serves multiple audiences: one part loyal readers and insiders and another part casual readers....
Q&A: David Cohn says Spot.Us needs to scale with technology, not people 16 Oct 2009 | 05:28 am
David Cohn recently expanded his community funded reporting project Spot.Us to Los Angeles. Cohn sat down with BeatBlogging.Org and discussed his plans to expand to more markets, his advice for those ...
Women use social media more than men 4 Oct 2009 | 10:21 am
Women make up the majority of users on most social media sites, according to Information is Beautiful. Here are some popular social networks with a majority of users being female: Flickr is 55 perce...
Engagement, not unique visitors should be No. 1 goal 3 Oct 2009 | 05:51 am
Unique visitors can be very misleading, especially since so many Web users are drive by users that stop by to view one Web page, before quickly going elsewhere. What’s more important is how we engage...
What I’m reading 26 Sep 2009 | 03:51 am
This is a new feature on BeatBlogging.Org where I share the links of the stories that I’m reading. This will be different than The Dose of social media, as these stories aren’t just social media relat...
News orgs should look to government for innovation 23 Sep 2009 | 09:06 am
I never thought I’d say this, but we need to look at some of the innovative things that government is doing. In a recent post for Poynter.org, I looked at NASA’s internal employee social network, Spa...
Rethinking commenting system 12 Sep 2009 | 03:29 am
Most newspapers have virtually identical commenting system to one another, but why is that? Shouldn’t there be more variety? The Washington Post developed a new commenting system, WebCom, that is radi...
