beatblogging – Ryan Sholin

Notes, links, and recent entanglements

Jul 15, 2009

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A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in… Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are…

New at IdeaLab: What’s new in ReportingOn 2.0 and what’s been left undone

Jul 15, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve got a post up that circles back to the first version of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project. In the post, I revisit some of the problems the 2.0 release was intended to solve, and I do a bit of scorekeeping on RO’s progress. Here’s a bit from the post about…

Why We Link: Your answers to why news organizations should tie the Web together

Jun 12, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

Last week, I asked for some on tips on why news organizations should link to external sources. I wanted your best reasons, and you happily provided them. Six of you answered via the Publish Tip Form I embedded in that blog post, and seven of you replied on Twitter. You can find my favorite answers…

Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org

Feb 12, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Pat rocks out an intermediate level Twitter for reporting screencast so I don’t have to. (Actually, I have to, but I’ll pass along Pat’s as well.) Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org

The community-directed reporter: Daniel Victor gears up to go mojo

Jan 8, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

From Daniel Victor comes news that he’s working on a new job description, and a new reporting beat: “If I can sell my editors on the concept, I would be the author and community manager of a new blog. My stated goal will be to have at least one originally reported story per day, usually…

A podcast in which I discuss the merits and limits of Ning with Pat Thornton

Jan 2, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

I spent 20 minutes or so talking about Wired Journalists and Ning with Pat Thornton last week for a BeatBlogging.org podcast. Here are some highlights from Pat’s list of questions: Would you choose Ning again if you could start over? How specific should a topic be for a Ning site to be specific? How many…

WiredJournalists.com welcomes BeatBlogging.org

Jun 19, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

After a round-robin series of conversations between Jay Rosen, David Cohn, Pat Thornton, and myself along with Howard Owens and Zac Echola, I’m happy to announce that WiredJournalists.com and BeatBlogging.org are joining forces to bring attention to the unsung beat reporters gathering their sources around the bonfire of a blog to better fulfill the mission…

2000 strong at Wired Journalists

May 15, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

So many milestones this week… Here’s another one: Wired Journalists now has more than 2000 members. The Ning-powered social network that Howard Owens, Zac Echola, and I created back in January has exceeded our expectations, in terms of numbers, interaction, community, and the learning/teaching that’s going on there. Plus, it’s really bringing some people out…

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