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Success In The New News Industry
I’ve been kicking around an idea after reading the book Outliers: The Story of Success. One of the major themes of the book is that success doesn’t come just from having raw talent or outworking the competition. Successful people usually have talent, work ethic, AND are able to put them to use to become experts [...]
WordPress 2.8 – A Quick View of the Highlights
WordPress 2.8 is rolling out today, and there are several features and enhancements I’m pretty excited about. They keep making my favorite content management tool better and better!
Theme Management Drastically Improved
We now have functionality similar to that of plugin management. Now there’s no need to find a theme, download it to your home computer, unzip [...]
SEO – A Five Year Plan
Matt Cutts recently answered the question “Will SEO exist in five years?” via video. Don’t worry, this is a really short clip, and there’s not a lot of geek speak in it at all. However, keep in mind that he’s a Google employee and he’s talking about SEO in the context of Google.
As we’ve pointed [...]
Social Network Links on Every Post
Aunt Bea asked a question about placing social networking links at the bottom of posts. Simple answer…there’s a plugin for that–Sociable makes it super easy to place those little buttons at the bottom of every post. Right out of the virtual box, Sociable automatically puts these links a the end of every post.
In fact, Sociable [...]
Is Your Newsroom Using Twitter? Effectively?
Before I get to anything that may come across as negative, let me say that I follow lots of people who work in at my local paper, The Knoxville New Sentinel. And there’s one huge reason I follow them…
They are engaging.
(I’m going to go ahead and get my #followfriday in now so you can follow [...]
Twitter Could Be The Fabeled Google Killer
Why else do you think Google is so anxious to buy them?
Twitter is a great communication tool, but it’s real power lies in something it hasn’t fully exploited yet–search. Not search in the sense that Google does search, but search in the sense of the way you want to search.
Real time search. Search that is [...]
Leveraging Twitter With Tweetmeme
If you haven’t heard about Tweetmeme yet, chances are you will soon–like right now. In fact you can see evidence on this page–that little “Retweet This” button is provided by Tweetmeme.
I’ll give you the high points. Tweetmeme is a service that’s sort of like Digg in that it allows you to “vote” for a web [...]
Six Ways TweetDeck Makes Twitter Better
Trace and I are obviously huge fans of Twitter, but if you’re only using Twitter the website, you are missing out on all kinds of cool things people are doing with Twitter the service. TweetDeck is definitely my favorite application that utilizes Twitter because it makes it so powerful. I’ve fielded a couple of questions [...]
How News Organizations Can Get My Money
Alternate title:Yet Another Solution to Newspapers’ Problems
Media moguls, feel free to take this idea and run with it–I have neither the capital nor the initiative to implement it.
Media pundits, feel free to bash this idea. I haven’t seen an idea out there yet that someone hasn’t hated.
So the basic idea is pretty simple–customize the news [...]