John Wilpers: The power of partnering

• “CHICAGO NOW” EDITORS MAKE LIKE EARLY ROCKET SCIENTISTS AND MISFIRE WITH BLOGS

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  Blog aggregation is not rocket science. It does, however, require common sense. And common sense would seem to scream: “STOP! DON’T DO IT” if someone suggested creating a stand-alone website made up of a bunch of largely anonymous writers with no organizing principle other than that the writers are all largely anonymous [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 8:04am EDT
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• UNORGANIZED USER-GENERATED CONTENT DUMPED IN A BLOGGER GHETTO IS NONSENSE

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  HIGH-QUALITY NON-STAFF BLOGS SHOULD RUN IN THE WEBSITE (AND PAPER) SECTION PERTAINING TO THEIR TOPIC. When was the last time your colleagues said they were heading out for a wild weekend of reading generic user-generated blogs? Never, right? No one (in their right mind) reads blogs just because some other reader wrote them. And [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
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• WHY CAN’T NEWSPAPERS FIGURE OUT HOW TO INCORPORATE QUALITY LOCAL BLOGGERS?

  Le Monde incorporates high-quality bloggers on their website in the appropriate section right next to staff content, but clearly labeled as a blog. No blogger ghetto [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
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• CAN HIGH-QUALITY BLOGGERS HELP RESCUE NEWSPAPERS?

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  (The INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS 2009 World Report is out and I have a piece in it called, “Can Top-Quality Local Bloggers Help Rescue Newspapers.” I republish it here for those who have not seen the report. It can be ordered here. This is the first of two parts.) No one knows [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
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• Nine minutes that could help save your newspaper: How local bloggers can add content, revenue, reach

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  When I spoke at the International Newsmedia Marketing Association “The Newspaper Outlook Experience” conference in Vienna, Austria last fall, I was interviewed by Artur Karda, multimedia reporter at Media Regionalne, for the Forum4Editors report on the conference. Artur e-mailed the video to me recently. In it, he poses all the questions [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 8:18am EST
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• GlobalPost launches with hundreds of global blogs

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  With the recent launch of GlobalPost, high-quality bloggers are being given positions of prominence for the first time on a major news media website, starting with promotion on the home page. Hundreds of top-notch bloggers from 41 countries around the world also appear on the region pages (e.g., Europe), the [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 3:07pm EST
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• FINDING THE “WORLD’S BEST BLOGGERS” PROJECT AT GLOBALPOST.COM

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  I want to introduce you to a very exciting project I am working on as the Director of Global Blog Development for a cool new organization called GlobalPost.com. It will be the first online-only world news service, and will launch in January with 70 correspondents in 53 countries “to satisfy a [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2008, 10:42pm EST
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• NERVOUS EDITORS, PART 3: HOW LONG WILL BLOGGERS TRADE CONTENT FOR EXPOSURE?

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  Over my last two posts, I have answered five of the most common questions I get from editors curious or nervous about incorporating bloggers in their newspapers and websites. Three posts ago, I answered questions about risking hard-won credibility. Two posts ago, I addressed fears of losing control of content, [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2008, 6:48pm EDT
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• REASSURANCE FOR EDITORS NERVOUS ABOUT USING BLOGS IN THEIR PAPERS & WEBSITES

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  I just returned from Vienna, Austria where I spoke to the International Newsmedia Marketing Association’s Europe Outlook 2009 Conference about using local bloggers to enhance their reach, relevance and revenue. (By the way: Those folks know how to drink! Unlike too many of my American editorial friends who drink to [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2008, 7:01pm EDT
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• ANSWERS TO EDITORS WORRIES ABOUT PUBLISHING LOCAL BLOGGERS, PART 2

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  In my last post (“Doubting Thomases“), I began answering the questions of editors who are nervous about publishing local bloggers in their websites and print products. Prior to my speech Oct. 2 in Vienna, Austria at the International Newsmedia Marketing Association’s Europe 2008 conference, the organizers posed the questions they’d been [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 9:42am EDT
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• DOUBTING THOMASES: TOO MANY NEWSPAPER EDITORS STILL QUESTION THE VALUE OF BLOGS

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  Even as Technorati is releasing its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report documenting the fact that 346 million people world-wide read blogs, that 184 million people world-wide have started a blog, and that there are almost a million blog posts a day, there are still doubters. If blogging weren’t such an [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2008, 10:31am EDT
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• BRINGING BLOGGERS INTO YOUR NEWSPAPER MAKES YOUR PAPER “OUR PAPER” FOR READERS

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  How many newspaper readers feel a personal connection with their metro daily newspaper? How many think of the paper as “our newspaper” or “my newspaper”? Nobody I know. Readers see their metro paper as “their” newspaper, a publication reflecting the interests, opinions, and work of other people not remotely connected to the [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2008, 7:38am EDT
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• THE POWER OF LOCAL BLOGS IN A NEWSPAPER

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  I’m back. I spent most of August preparing for a big speech at the national Brazil newspaper association’s annual convention about how bloggers can build a newspaper’s circulation, web traffic, and revenue. It took a lot of time gathering data, doing video interviews, editing, creating, etc. (see show above). Full disclosure: I [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2008, 2:13pm EDT
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• The Worst “Blind Pews” of U.S. Newspapers, PT II

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  You might think that as you move down the list of large American newspapers, away from the tradition-laden (tradition-handicapped?) major metros of the east and west coasts (and, OK, Chicago), that you might find a greater connection between a newspaper and its community (e.g., more local bloggers and vloggers on [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2008, 12:37pm EDT
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• THE BLIND PEWS: The Top 10 Most Purblind Papers

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  It’s time to be name names. Too many big, ordinarily smart newspapers still refuse to involve high-quality local bloggers and vloggers on their websites and in the pages of their paper in any significant way beyond a lame, well-hidden, token local blogger index page (if that). Now the thieves are at the [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2008, 1:20pm EDT
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• Wake up, folks, Huffington is no Backfence

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  HERE SHE COMES. If you are a newspaper editor or publisher, and you haven’t worried about Outside.in, YourStreet, Topix, or BackFence (deceased), it’s finally time to worry. Like Craig Newmark before her, Huffington Post creator Arianna Huffington plans to steal our lunch. In her case, she’s announced she is going to [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2008, 11:56am EDT
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• It’s the placement, stupid! Newspapers blow UGC

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  “It’s the economy, stupid” worked for Clinton. “It’s the placement, stupid” would work for newspapers’ in their efforts to make user-generated content successful. But most newspaper websites place (“bury”) user-created stuff in UGC ghettos nowhere near the subjects they’re blogging or vlogging about. If newspapers treated their own content the way they treat [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2008, 12:04am EDT
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• Why are there no user video blogs in newspapers?

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  We’re blind. Or stupid. Great local content is staring newspapers in the face … and we can’t see it. Or we choose not to see it. Hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded daily on YouTube. Every MINUTE of every day, ten HOURS of new video is uploaded, YouTube says. In one month alone [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 11:28pm EDT
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• Houston Chronicle is local blogger heaven

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  Talk about doing it right. The Houston Chronicle gets it. They have local bloggers EVERYWHERE on their site, even on their specialty sites: MomHouston.com and HoustonBelief.com (left). Most importantly, the citizen bloggers are not buried on a “blogs” page. They are incorporated on the theme-appropriate Web page: citizen sports bloggers are on the [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
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• Solving the blogger payment problem

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  The old dust-up over newspapers (and other media) paying non-staff bloggers for their contributions is being debated on the Center for Citizen Media Blog and only Tish Grier got it right in her comments (”…what’s wrong with just aggregating this content and sharing traffic with local bloggers?”). I think that’s the [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2008, 5:27pm EDT
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• Huffington sticks it to the NYT

  How many bloggers would brag that their standards surpass the New York Times? Arianna Huffington would, and she did. When asked about the HuffPost’s accuracy standards Thursday, she outlined her 24-hour correct-it-or-lose-your-rights deadline. Then, without skipping a beat, she compared her one-day correction turn-around requirement to the NYT which “took years to [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 9:37pm EDT
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• Introduction

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  It’s about time…. I’ve been promoting newspaper collaboration with bloggers (and vloggers, podcasters and readers in general) for more than a year now, but I never found (took) the time to write my own. No more. It was embarrassing. In 2007, I launched the first metro daily newspaper (the recently shuttered BostonNOW) that included [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:15am EDT
  by johnwilpers