Free Post local journalism Andrea Faye Hart: creating a brave space for civic engagement Is a more engaged and representative journalism the pathway to more sustainable local news? Chicago's City Bureau thinks so, and is setting out to prove it.
Free Post bureau of investigative journalism The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is taking community seriously with its latest hire The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has hired a community organiser, Kirsty Styles: We see ourselves as serving both the journalists/members of our network and the disparate communities that they
Free Post community What Makes A Troll A Troll? Research shows that two factors predict trolling behavior.
Free Post analytics The new original sin of online publishing John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks: Again, for emphasis: despite
Free Post community Fighting trolling with academic rigour Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger
Free Post community Journalists: want to pitch Medium? For those who aren’t aware, within Medium are several publications they run in-house, including Backchannel, a tech magazine, and Matter, which is an evolved form of the long-form science
Free Post commercial property Content, communities and the commercial property business Once, long ago, when the world was dark, and I was stuck living in Lewisham, I was features editor of a magazine called Estates Gazette. We wrote about the world of commercial property, and one of the things I did was commission expert comment,
Free Post community Nostalgia meets satire in pre-social media That’s a rather pretentious title to sum up a rather excellent XKCD cartoon that manages to both make me nostaligic for the chatrooms that made up some of my first experiences of community interaction on the web – and satirise the worst excesses of
Free Post community How to screw-up a publisher community Ouch: The organizations that have the idea for a community, spend weeks selecting a platform, months developing it, and a year before they invite anyone to participate, tend to struggle…a lot. Typically they splutter along for six months before being mercifully cancelled. I
Free Post community Maslow's Hierarchy of Bunkum The very first time I saw someone use Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in a corporate presentation, I was impressed. It tied the pyramid neatly to reasons for doing social activity around a magazine brand. It was clever, and gave intellectual weight to the
Free Post cities #RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible? Tha answer’s grim: no. But there is a bright side… He’s been
Free Post commenters Comments: we're talking about the wrong thing Daniel Ha, CEO of Disqus, writing for WIRED: But for too long, the debate about online discussion has been about the commenters. We need to move away from pointing the finger at pseudonyms or anonymity as the sole problem, because it’s not. Instead
Free Post community Interhacktive Reading: 18/10/12 Some community-related links, mainly for my community and social media module students at City University – but shared for the betterment of all… Daily Record suspends comments on football articles – classic scale problem, letting a culture problem go unresolved for too long. The vexing issue
Free Post community Meaning: Pamela Warhurst on Incredible Edible *Catching up on my liveblogged notes from last week’s Meaning Conference – I ran out of laptop battery, so couldn’t post them at the time. * Pamela’s here to tell us a story about making the world nicer. Todmordon has fruit, vegetable and
Free Post community Community for community's sake Neil Perkin: Too many brands attempt to establish communities with no clear purpose to that community, or plan for what they’re going to talk about not just over the next few weeks, but long-term. So they soon find that they can only talk
