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Facebook Comments reduces vitriol « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. Facebook Comments reduces vitriol. I ‘ve been advocating using Facebook’s comments system on public sites for a while (I didn’t realize how long – 2 years? It’s been surprising that so few publishers (both traditional and startup) have stuck with the usual systems. Mostly the argument seems to come down to either (1) we want to own our own system, not use someone else’s or (2) anonymous comments are an important part of the dialog. In the past couple of years as Facebo...
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MinnPost continues weaning off foundation money « joemichaud.com
https://joemichaud.com/2012/01/30/minnpost-continues-weaning-off-foundation-money
About Local Interactive Strategies. MinnPost continues weaning off foundation money. The news that MinnPost. Posted a second year in the black is important not just for MinnPost, but also for nonprofit independent news sites in general. Significantly, MinnPost CEO Joel Kramer told Nieman Journalism Lab. I’ll admit I was concerned by the buzz when MinnPost first launched, and its foundation support was being held up as a replicable model for sustaining independent local journalism in the U.S....You are...
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2011 February 22 « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. The evolution of UGC: sites, blogs, Facebook, then what? Interesting piece in the NYT this week, Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. Which looks at how young people’s self-publishing efforts have migrated from blogs to Facebook et al. The money quote: I don’t use my blog anymore. All the people I’m trying to reach are on Facebook. 8211; or more specifically, how to persuade those. More recently working on ConcertRat.com, I went looking around the w...
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Opportunity to help small businesses with social media? « joemichaud.com
https://joemichaud.com/2011/11/10/opportunity-to-help-small-businesses-with-social-media
About Local Interactive Strategies. Opportunity to help small businesses with social media? Quickbooks owner Intuit posted an infographic that could be useful to local indie publishers on a couple of levels. First, it’s good stuff to share with your customers – most of whom are probably small businesses. They can see where they stand in comparison to their peers in digital marketing, probably not research they’re doing on their own. Via: The Expanding Small Business Web [INFOGRAPHIC]. November 10, 2011.
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2011 October 31 « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. I’m glad someone is taking a five-year-anniversary look at the impact of Newspaper Next, and that Justin Ellis, a fellow Press Herald alum, has done it, as part of the Nieman Journalism Lab. The first installment, “The path of disruption: Did Newspaper Next succeed in transforming newspapers? 8221; is a pretty good start. Still, I have to poke at a couple of assumptions in the piece. On which N2 was based) is that internal disruptive innovation will always. Few contact...
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2012 November 14 « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. Future of journalism future of newspapers civic engagement. There’s plenty of hand-wringing about the future of journalism, and I thought a couple of pieces in the past few weeks made nice bookends showing why this hand-wringing is pointless. 1 The Christian Science Monitor worries “Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? 2 Street Fight worries Does Hyperlocal ‘Engagement’ Work And Can it Be Monetized? Has been picking up some of the journalistic slack ...
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2011 November 10 « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. Opportunity to help small businesses with social media? Quickbooks owner Intuit posted an infographic that could be useful to local indie publishers on a couple of levels. First, it’s good stuff to share with your customers – most of whom are probably small businesses. They can see where they stand in comparison to their peers in digital marketing, probably not research they’re doing on their own. Via: The Expanding Small Business Web [INFOGRAPHIC]. November 10, 2011.
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Future of journalism ≠ future of newspapers ≠ civic engagement « joemichaud.com
https://joemichaud.com/2012/11/14/future-of-journalism-≠-future-of-newspapers-≠-civic-engagement
About Local Interactive Strategies. Future of journalism future of newspapers civic engagement. There’s plenty of hand-wringing about the future of journalism, and I thought a couple of pieces in the past few weeks made nice bookends showing why this hand-wringing is pointless. 1 The Christian Science Monitor worries “Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? 2 Street Fight worries Does Hyperlocal ‘Engagement’ Work And Can it Be Monetized? Has been picking up some of the journalistic slack ...
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Uncategorized « joemichaud.com
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About Local Interactive Strategies. Reflecting on two years of “Grow and Strengthen”. Coaching news startups has been a very rewarding part of my recent professional life, including two rounds of a program called “Grow and Strengthen” at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair (NJ) State University, a vital hub in the NJ news ecosystem. This is a very cool multimedia package. February 9, 2015. Future of journalism future of newspapers civic engagement. I would point out that these pieces are usuall...
