Comments on: Get over yourself and offer useful services http://steveouting.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/ Journalist, consultant, entrepreneur ... Musings on digital media, Web 2.0/3.0, & news in the Internet era Wed, 02 May 2012 20:38:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: contentious.com - links for 2008-02-16 http://steveouting.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/comment-page-1/#comment-12 contentious.com - links for 2008-02-16 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:21:34 +0000 http://growingyournewswebsite.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/#comment-12 [...] Get over yourself and offer useful services: GrowingYourNewsWebsite.com “’Get over yourself’ means acknowledging & leading your readers and users to good sources of content beyond your news organization. It means becoming more useful as an intelligent filter to the massive amount of content that’s available online.” (tags: tidbits+fodder local aggregation services news+biz syndication) [...] [...] Get over yourself and offer useful services: GrowingYourNewsWebsite.com “’Get over yourself’ means acknowledging & leading your readers and users to good sources of content beyond your news organization. It means becoming more useful as an intelligent filter to the massive amount of content that’s available online.” (tags: tidbits+fodder local aggregation services news+biz syndication) [...]

]]> By: agahran http://steveouting.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/comment-page-1/#comment-11 agahran Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:02:59 +0000 http://growingyournewswebsite.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/#comment-11 Just as a side note, I was glad to see that the OutsideIn local newsletter you showed highlights a recent story from my community journalism project, bouldercarbontax.org. I didn't even know they were indexing us, way cool! Yes, you're absolutely right -- news orgs can get a lot of benefit from becoming useful filters as well as producers. My own version of "get over yourself" is "It's not all about your site." - Amy Gahran Just as a side note, I was glad to see that the OutsideIn local newsletter you showed highlights a recent story from my community journalism project, bouldercarbontax.org. I didn’t even know they were indexing us, way cool!

Yes, you’re absolutely right — news orgs can get a lot of benefit from becoming useful filters as well as producers. My own version of “get over yourself” is “It’s not all about your site.”

- Amy Gahran

]]> By: agahran http://steveouting.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/comment-page-1/#comment-4245 agahran Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:02:59 +0000 http://growingyournewswebsite.com/2008/02/15/get-over-yourself-and-offer-useful-services/#comment-4245 Just as a side note, I was glad to see that the OutsideIn local newsletter you showed highlights a recent story from my community journalism project, bouldercarbontax.org. I didn't even know they were indexing us, way cool!<br /><br /> Yes, you're absolutely right -- news orgs can get a lot of benefit from becoming useful filters as well as producers. My own version of "get over yourself" is "It's not all about your site."<br /><br /> - Amy Gahran Just as a side note, I was glad to see that the OutsideIn local newsletter you showed highlights a recent story from my community journalism project, bouldercarbontax.org. I didn't even know they were indexing us, way cool!

Yes, you're absolutely right — news orgs can get a lot of benefit from becoming useful filters as well as producers. My own version of "get over yourself" is "It's not all about your site."

– Amy Gahran

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