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“We’ve all been part of communities since kindergarten, or earlier. Churches, schools, sports teams, and neighborhoods all satisfy basic human desires to interact with others and work toward a common goal. And yet, when these communities are online and we start to think of them as “social sites,” these concepts can suddenly feel foreign.”
Some excellent slides in here from the #nvision panel on 3/30/09 that included @etanowitz and Scott Karp of Publish2. Those first couple slides about the change from one-to-many communication to many-to-many are something I always need around.
Grants that look like they might fund nonprofit community journalism initiatives.
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, where I write about the development of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, I just posted something that starts to get into what Phase 2 of the “back channel for your beat” is going to look like.
Well, not what it’s going to *look* like exactly, but how it’s going to be framed.
Here’s a snippet:
“…the goal was always to give journalists — whether they’re a neighborhood blogger or the Baghdad bureau chief at the Washington Post — a place to ask questions about what they’re reporting on.
The shift that we’re making is a move from asking ‘What are you reporting on?’ to asking ‘What do you need to know about what you’re reporting on?‘
That’s where influences like Stack Overflow come into play. What’s the best way to organize and surface questions from journalists about a given topic?”
Check it out, and let me know if you think we’re on the right track. Things are really starting to come together, and some of you should start to hear from me privately soon, as I nose around for newsrooms and neighborhood bloggers to test out Phase 2.
They’re not actually open yet, but this sounds like a good coworking space — or at least a good idea for one. Just checking out what there is in town.
@allsongs is archiving some awesome live shows from SXSW. This one is SSLYBY, which I first heard on TV in Lawrence, KS when I was out in Kansas City recently.
SXSW 2008: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin : NPR Music
Heard this on @allsongs and need to save it for later. They played at SXSW, and appear to rock. They self-identify as “fight pop” which sounds accurate to me.
Tons of resources. Free tools. Good posts. And more.
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.)
Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing a 17+ year journalism career. I worked with Michele on the regional desk at ANG, before it became BANG, but you know it more informally as the cluster of newspapers in the Bay Area owned by MediaNews. Back then, she was an investigative/enterprise reporter winning awards for a long series on the failures of group homes for young people and the developmentally disabled.
I talked with Michele about moving from a print-focused newsroom to a Web-only culture where she is the reporter, editor, community manager, and communications officer of her own organization:
“That’s another thing that I think was a shock for me in moving from print to online – the shift in what your readers want and expect from you in terms of their psychic needs (which shift from information to attention-getting, sometimes) and the kind of engagement they anticipate. I figure it’ll take a lot of work for me to fine-tune that engagement level.”
Crucial stuff for anyone designing an application that they expect users to, y’know, use.
Applications of usability principles on a social network – creative briefing