Comments on: Yes, people will post news, but perhaps not when YOU ask

By: The news is out there, you’ve just got to filter, aggregate and share it | The Evolving Newsroom

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:28:20 +0000

[...] Outing has written a good post about people wanting to upload and share ‘news’ but not necessarily with news or [...]

By: godius

godius — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:43:51 +0000

I totally agree, great post!

Grz Godius

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By: Dan Pacheco

Dan Pacheco — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:13:43 +0000

Quick, go register Twittocracy.com! Great idea. I wonder if the Twitter API would provide enough information to do that outside of Twitter?

By: Mirek Kowalski

Mirek Kowalski — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:14:04 +0000

I still believe, that if we are manage to create “elegant” platform dedicated for local activists, as a separate product from our newspaper site, which will be also an aggregation platform for local bloggers, it will works. Now I’m working on such a project for 10 biggest cities in Poland, localized to city districts (www.mmmojemiasto.pl), which achieved 400 thousand UU after 6 month. Still lot to do, but first results, are encouraging:-)

By: Yann Ropars

Yann Ropars — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:22:09 +0000

I was talking to one of the director of a local radio station last week about your ideas on hyper-local news. The tornadoes that happen in Windsors, CO was exactly what came to his mind. They wished they had a systems to collect information on the scene.

There is definitely a need for this and we’re close to reach a critical mass of users on Twitter like systems. If there was some sort of point system like many “blog comment” e.g. IntenseDebate – I think it would motivate people to participate and build online-journalistic equity – the Twittocracy!

Common unit of experience drive people action… a zip code is a unit of experience… Twitt80303… etc?

@YannR
Keep digging Steve!@

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links for 2008-08-25 — contentious.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:01:14 +0000

[...] Yes, people will post news, but perhaps not when YOU ask: SteveOuting.com Steve Outing is onto something really crucial here. I wish I'd realized this when we started the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project. It really is always easier to join a conversation than start one, especially online. "I’ve started to realize that news organizations would be wise to focus less on creating their own citJ platforms and hoping someone will post something, and more on leveraging the social networks where people already are posting news. My previous post about Twitter touches on this; that micro-blogging service contains (amid all the personal fluff) real news that people are witnessing." (tags: citizen+journalism media+evolution news+biz microblogging social+media services tidbits+fodder) [...]

By: Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Sunday squibs

Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Sunday squibs — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:30:30 +0000

[...] Yes, people will post news, but perhaps not when YOU ask. Steve Outing’s piece is related, in a way, to Doug Fisher’s as he looks at how real readers want to share their experiences. It’s interesting, as shown by both these pieces, how broad-based concepts (hyperlocal, citizen journalism) are being continually redefined as they run up against reality. [...]

By: Ken Sands

Ken Sands — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:48:14 +0000

My mantra for the past few years is “go where the people are” on the information superhighway instead of trying to coax them into your cul-de-sac.

By: Dan Pacheco

Dan Pacheco — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:12:54 +0000

Also, Twitter shows how you can use social connections and engagement outside of your site to take people back into your site via relevant links. That’s how I found this post. I have your blog in my feed reader, but most of my casual “grazing” time these days is in Twitter and Facebook. That means that news organizations can’t stop with just posting links in Twitter. They also need to grow their brands’ social connections with people who are likely to care about them. And I also think the brands need to interact more with the community — like @MarsPhoenix.

By: Julie Starr

Julie Starr — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:39:16 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. News companies need to get out to where people naturally spend time and engage with them there.

In my view that’s true not only for sourcing and soliciting ‘citizen news’ but also for distributing news.

Life’s busy, the web is huge and it’s becoming unreasonable to expect people to come to your site every day to read and post news. Much easier for them to engage with you if they come across you on the interwebs as they go about their daily business.