community management

Zetland: journalism as (profitable) community service Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Lea Korsgaard, Editor-in-Chief, Zetland, Denmark Do you create a community to monetise it? No. You create a community to serve it. If you are to build community, you need to

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business models

Zeit Online: hunting the millennial online – and offline. Members Public

I’m at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference [https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/digital-media-europe-2017] in Copenhagen for the next few days. This is the first of my liveblogged session notes from the event. Christian Röpke, CEO, ZEIT ONLINE Die Zeit [http://www.zeit.de/index] has a 500,000

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audience development

Comments: commit to them, or get out Members Public

The Financial Times is using comments to engage in a constructive discussion around Brexit [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-the-ft-uses-comments-and-reader-call-outs-to-engage-with-the-audience/s2/a692625/] . Lilah Raptopoulos, community manager at the FT.: > “Creating a hub where it was clear that we were asking and listening really improved the quality of the

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comments

Video: Men read harassing tweets to female journalists' faces Members Public

This is uncomfortable viewing. Men – volunteers – read out nasty and harassing tweets targeted at female sports journalist – to those journalists. It starts off much lighter than it becomes later on. And then the guys get really uncomfortable with what they have to read out.An interesting way of showing the

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community management

The main lesson of Boaty McBoatface Members Public

The main lesson of Boaty McBoatface [http://radar.oreilly.com/2016/04/four-short-links-25-april-2016.html] Nat Torkington: > […] you want opinions, but you also want committed opinions. Your poll/survey/vote will erect (or fail to erect) barriers to participation, and those barriers represent a measure of commitment. No barriers = lots

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community management

Fighting trolling with academic rigour Members Public

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 in the online gaming world, though. And one of the biggest games in the eSports sector – League of Legends [http:

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community

Twitter got seedy Members Public

Twitter’s fundamental problem is that it has got seedy [http://nymag.com/following/2016/03/julieanne-smolinski-quitting-twitter.html] Julieanne Smolinski: > Twitter is like a beloved public park that used to be nice, but now has a rusty jungle gym, dozens of of really persistent masturbators, and a nighttime bat

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abuse

Twitter sanitises @replies for verified users Members Public

Talking of services with two tiers of users, Twitter is making life nicer for its elite “verified” users: > Quality filter allows verified users to hide tweets in notifications containing threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content or that are sent from suspicious accounts, similar to the old “filtered” option

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Adam Tinworth
community management