Here are notes and links from my NINA workshop talk June 14 about blogging.
Interesting things a few northern Illinois newspapers are doing:
Rockford Register Star
Beep (Daily Herald)
Daily Journal, Kankakee
Northwest Herald
Sun-Times News Group (Naperville)
Journal-Standard, Freeport
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Northern Star
Nationally, places you may want to be looking for inspiration:
Bakersfield Californian
Mix of staff blogs and reader blogs
Great idea: Ask the Californian
Wicked Local Plymouth
(this site won the EPpy for best Web site affiliated with a weekly newspaper)
note local videos blog
Bluffton Today
Community site for Bluffton, S.C.
Houston Chronicle: great place to look for ideas
reader blogs, too
San Antonio Express-News
Washington Post
Reader blogs at The Oklahoman
Knox County, Maine
A great idea from Minnesota Public Radio:
The Future of Small Towns idea generator
Article from Online Journalism Review about developing a breaking news blog
NYU students rate the best blogging newspapers in the U.S.
Post the rules! Prominently!
Staff-blogger guidelines from the Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record
Reader comments: Daily Chronicle, DeKalb
Poynter column by Al Tompkins about Assessing Legal Risks of allowing story comments
Setting up a blog
Wordpress
Blogger
Subscribing to a blog
Google Reader
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I was asked Thursday, during the blogging session, what a site like Wordpress gets out of the deal when it lets people set up blogs for free, and without ads. I checked today with new-media expert Bryan Murley of Eastern Illinois University. Bryan responds:
"That's a good question. The main thing that's in it for them is use of the WordPress platform and premium upgrades like css tweaking,customization, etc. Also, I'm sure they provide customer service support for large corporate bloggers who use their platform as well. I suspect at some point, they'll start integrating some advertising into the free blogs, just like Blogger did when they were bought by Google."
So there you have it. Thanks, Bryan.
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