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Re: To The Future! A List of Intention Enabled Websites

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:22:04 -0000

As of Friday, Jan. 29, I will no longer be working at the L.A. Times.

Please contact Blogs Editor Tony Pierce (tony.pierce@latimes.com) with any social-media related inquiries.

You can reach me via laughtears@yahoo.com or text ADN to 50500 for my full contact info.

Re: To The Future! A List of Intention Enabled Websites

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:43:07 -0000

As of Friday, Jan. 29, I will no longer be working at the L.A. Times.

Please contact Blogs Editor Tony Pierce (tony.pierce@latimes.com) with any social-media related inquiries.

You can reach me via laughtears@yahoo.com or text ADN to 50500 for my full contact info.

Re: To The Future! A List of Intention Enabled Websites

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:22:12 -0000

As of Friday, Jan. 29, I will no longer be working at the L.A. Times.

Please contact Blogs Editor Tony Pierce (tony.pierce@latimes.com) with any social-media related inquiries.

You can reach me via laughtears@yahoo.com or text ADN to 50500 for my full contact info.

Re: Happy Holidays 2009- My Photo Project

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:58:09 -0000

Great project, Chris. Happy holidays to you and yours. Here's a raw, cautionary pic by my friend Jacobo, reminding everyone to stay safe on the roads this holiday season: http://twitpic.com/vfefn

Re: To The Future! A List of Intention Enabled Websites

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:24:17 -0000

Related: TripIt recently announced Facebook News Feed integration: http://www.tripit.com/uhp/f...

Re: To The Future! A List of Intention Enabled Websites

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:20:22 -0000

Great post, Jeremiah. Since an election cycle is fast approaching, how about including prediction markets like http://www.fivethirtyeight....

Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Brightkite and other check-in based apps should consider adding: "I'm going to be at..." features.

Re: How Many Social Media Managers Work At Media Orgs? - mediabistro.com: MediaJobsDaily

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:11:42 -0000

Hi Rachel: Our biggest, best public Wave experiment so far is based on Mark Milian's Tech blog post: "How Google Wave could transform journalism" http://j.mp/bdzIB -- search that headline to find it in Wave.

378 blips from 200+ participants helped flesh the original post out a bit...and also helped us discover that smaller, private waves are working better so far than massive public ones -- at least until things are scaled, fine-tuned and stabilized a bit.

Similar to finding usefulness and value in other social outlets, Wave seems like a good place to be selective about who you connect, and wave, with.

Re: How Many Social Media Managers Work At Media Orgs? - mediabistro.com: MediaJobsDaily

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:38:18 -0000

Hi Rachel,

All feeds listed at http://latimes.com/RSS run through Feedburner and include AdSense -- you should see them in any reader, Firefox, etc ... if you're still not seeing them, I'd be curious to hear how you are reading/viewing them.

Regarding the 40+ http://latimes.com/unhub outlets, we do prioritize based on potential audience reach, et cetera, in addition to experimenting with new outlets as they arise. http://latimes.com/alltop is still very much alive. With some domains like Posterous, we have just squatted the (sub)domain as we consider future potential uses.

Currently, for example, I'm looking at Tumblr, Google Wave and http://latimes.enjoysthin.gs.

Re: How Many Social Media Managers Work At Media Orgs? - mediabistro.com: MediaJobsDaily

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:44:06 -0000

Agreed Katie. I'd also debunk a few other myths here.

Exhibit A: "Most newspaper RSS feeds don't carry ads; neither do posts that break news." http://latimes.com/RSS lists 100+ feeds that all include revenue-generating Google ads. In fact, RSS subscriptions account for a good percentage of our 1 million-plus social fan/follower subscriber base across 40+ social outlets we're experimenting with. A click a day from each of those "subscribers" translates into a significant boost in unique, often local, visitors.

L.A. Now (http://latimes.com/now), our local breaking news outlet -- a Technorati Top 25 blog -- breaks news daily, and is framed by text and display ads. Often, L.A. Now stories are the most popular content items on latimes.com.

Re the Forbes item that sparked this post, equating social media management only with Twitter and blogging is myopic.

Check out http://latimes.com/unhub for an overview of the 40+ social outlets I mentioned above...and let me know what you think the L.A. Times should be doing that were not.

~ Andrew / @AdNys
Lead @latimes Social Media & Digital Platforms guy

Re: Old Media, New Tricks looks to make ‘waves’ at SXSW Interactive 2010

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:14:45 -0000

Here's the link to Mark Milian's early (critical) look at Google Wave http://bit.ly/16ARZ7 from the L.A. Times Tech blog:

Will Google Wave be ready for prime time in two months? (Jul 30, 2009)

I finally got my invite -- typo in email address, hate that -- and we're already seeing improvements since that first look.

Re: Old Media, New Tricks looks to make ‘waves’ at SXSW Interactive 2010

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:18:44 -0000

Also posted this on http://panelpicker.sxsw.com... re Rob's Wave panel pitch:

Powerful, timely panel idea, from proven SXSW presenters.

From what I've seen during my colleagues' testing (google: "site:latimes.com 'google wave'"), Google Wave holds much promise for the future of journalism, whatever you want to call it (Social Journalism, Journalism 2.0+, et cetera).

Should be interesting to see how far Wave has evolved come March.

Re: Old Media, New Tricks looks to make ‘waves’ at SXSW Interactive 2010

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:15:47 -0000

Just posted this on http://panelpicker.sxsw.com... - While I might not want to tune in to the play-by-play of most people's daily lives, I do appreciate how Daniel can break down the implications of new technologies in lay terms. Stream on - look forward to the panel.

Re: Facebook Usernames are LIVE: 200,000 Usernames in 3 Minutes

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:57:04 -0000

NB: Looks like if you registered a new facebook.com/username tonight your display name may not be findable in Facebook user search tonight. Can anyone find the "Andrew Nystrom" that works at the Company: "Los Angeles Times" - people on other accounts can't. Otherwise, all seems to have gone smoothly.

Re: Facebook Usernames are LIVE: 200,000 Usernames in 3 Minutes

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:56:13 -0000

Re: Facebook Usernames are LIVE: 200,000 Usernames in 3 Minutes

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:55:48 -0000

Re: Bloggers Embark, The Prelude

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:43:54 -0000

Jenn, good to finally meet you. The bad kids always sit in back (with their QIK-enabled phones), ey?

My 1st batch of pics (including a couple of you) is at http://tinyurl.com/nimitz09

In adventure,
~ @latimesnystrom

Re: Answering the New York Times’ Twittering question

Andrew Nystrom / @AdNys — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:04:46 -0000

A factual FTR: The leaked memo from @jonathanlandman posted here (unauthenticated) http://bit.ly/wPGC9 [via @NiemanLab] says:

"Did you know that The New York Times is No. 2 on the Twitterholic.com Top 100 Twitterholics based on Followers? (Behind Ashton Kutcher but ahead of Ellen DeGeneres.)"

Actually, @nytimes is #14 Twitterholic.com (with an enviable 935,824 followers, as of this comment, or 939,128 on twitter.com itself) -- perhaps he meant #2 in "New York City" behind Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon)? http://twitterholic.com/top...

In any case, I warmly welcomed @nyt_Jenpreston to the social realm via an as-yet unanswered @reply and wish her all the best. It's a social jungle out there.

~ @latimesnystrom / http://latimes.com/twitter