Social Media
When news organizations use – and abuse – social media
I finally had a chance to join in #journchat on Twitter last night. It is a conversation among journalists that takes place from 8 to 11 p.m. EST on Mondays in which @journchat, the moderator, introduces questions (some of which come from other chatters) for journalists of all concentrations to discuss.
The fourth question was this: [...]
The Digital Roundtable: The beginning of live chatting on cm-life.com
Mid-September, I talked about one of my goals for the semester being the beginning of live chat discussions regarding Central Michigan University.
Well, we are well under way with it. We wrapped up our second “Digital Roundtable” discussion earlier tonight with CMU’s Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe, Director of Student Life Tony Voisin and Director of [...]
My aggregation experience: The Michigan government shutdown
Four years ago, aggregating at Central Michigan Life was virtually unheard of.
Staff policy was fixed on reporters and editors doing the legwork themselves – as in, make the phone calls, cross-reference and analyze. Don’t base your reporting on another newspaper’s reporting. Every story at CM Life required 2-3 sources at least before it could even [...]
Quotes to remember so far from ONA ‘09 livestreaming
Unfortunately, Mount Pleasant, Mich., is thousands of miles away from San Francisco and Online News Association 2009 at the Hilton.
But I did take some time today to check out two keynotes from today, via ONA 09’s Livestream. Here are some of the quotes that caught my ear, and they should for any journalist/media entrepreneur … [...]
Five goals for Central Michigan Life’s Web site the rest of the semester
As you can probably tell from the sporadic posting on this blog, my life has been, for the most part, Central Michigan Life.
We’re in the middle of Week 4 of the semester – football season is under way, our first CMU Board of Trustees meeting is Thursday and the archives from as far back as [...]
