So you have been given a blog

So you’ve been given a blog blogging for journalists

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we Link

we Share

we Publish

News turns from a lecture to a conversation Jay Rosen - 2004 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/12/29/tp04_lctr.html

Audience Lecture Community Conversation

what is your patch? what do you want to blog about?

who is on your patch? who talks about your subject? who blogs about your subject?

make yourself heard You are allowed an opinion outside of the website comment Find the voices in your community read bookmark/RSS communicate email meet-up

You are a Journalist You know stuff You know people People listen to you

the rules of blogging transparency Show your working Show your sources credit where credit is due share social bookmarks raw data ideas

The Almighty LINK

a blog without links is not a blog

a link is currency it has value attached to it It shows your trust It shows your knowledge It shows you're listening It grows if you spend it on others

Pingbacks Trackbacks When you link, they know. The system checks When you link, they know. Both automatic Internal VS. External links related content on your site masterblinking double-linking http://scobleizer.com/2007/09/12/bloggers-double-linking/ http://www.surﬂizard.com/archives/sneaky-links/674

finding links without stats link: use in google to find blogs that link to you -site: use in google to remove internal links e.g. Link:http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/ -Site:coventrytelegraph.net

link out = link in the proof ! http://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/07/16/how-good-is-the-mainstream-media-at-linking-out/

quot;The link is an editorial judgment... quot;There's a very legitimate concern about linking to unveriﬁed or unveriﬁable resources. It becomes a journalistic issue of 'can you trust the things you're linking to', because by linking to it, you are validating it.quot; Scott Karp http://www.publish2.com/ http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/532603.php

Authoritative voices breadth and depth of the story taste and decency link to the debate rather than the cause other media community voices different from comment blogroll

linking questions 1. Does the URL to which I am referring the reader reward him or her with additional content that a reader of this story likely did not know, or know how to get easily? 2. Does the text I am selecting to link this text give the reader an obvious clue as to what the hyperlinked page will contain? 3. Am I using the shortest possible amount of text to provide that clue? 4. Would the content of the linked text, or the context surrounding it, reasonably mislead the reader into believing that the linked page contains something other than what it does? http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/080215niles/

managing comments moderate openly censor words not whole comments make your moderation process clear engage be visible in your comments emphasise post about good comments More at: http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/02/blog_comments_1.php

community content ﬁnd for content at the point of delivery avoid pet picture syndrome guest bloggers Flickr Youtube share and share alike

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/09/18/basic-principles-of-online-journalism-c-is-for-community-conversation-pt2-conversation/

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic ﬁbers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. Herman Melville

So you have been given a blog

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