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Re: More on twitter and stations

Josh Andrews — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:26:41 -0000

I agree and disagree with Andy C's take. Twitter can be super valuable in the direct engagement Andy discusses - anything that deepens and makes more informal our relationship with the audience is a good thing. And anything that encourages us to listen to our audience is even a better thing. But Twitter can be a very personal and intimate medium (which, perhaps, is why us radio geeks find it so familiar and great) After reading Todd's first post, I checked out the WBUR tweets mentioned. Now, I don't know Ken, but it feels a little odd to me his personal correspondence with other users is happening under the moniker of WBUR. How can a station tweet about its breakfast or a meeting it just had? I think we should encourage our reporters and staff to participate in Twitter and identify themselves as staff in their bios - so when I search WBUR Ken George comes up, as well as all his on air folks, and I can choose to follow him and others from my local station.

I do agree that station tweets need to be more than just an automated newsfeed (guilty as charged - I need to manually get in our tweets more often), but with a station name on the account, I think it should take on a station voice. Now a station voice can have personality... just not breakfast.

Now that I've said that, I am going to rush off and put WBEZ in my twitter bio so I come up on a search and don't look silly after this post. I also like the idea of a station following all of its followers.

Re: Where are Public Media’s Female Bloggers?

Josh Andrews — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:44:40 -0000

Back in my radio producer days, it always felt harder to get women to agree to come on Odyssey as guests. The leading consensus on our team was that dudes were much more willing to spout off opinions about topics they didn't really know about. You would rarely hear "That's not my area of expertise, perhaps you should ask someone else". Anecdotal, to say the least, but I often think about that in the blogosphere. Authority on the web often comes from the volume and frequency at which you state your views - and not always tied to the value of your ideas. So, here's my gross gender generalization: maybe women see through all the ego-posturing so common in blogs... and simply don't want to play that game. But maybe I'm spouting off on something I don't know that much about. Sigh...

Re: Peak Oil… Meet Public Media: Social Media for Ourselves

Josh Andrews — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:55:12 -0000

I'd also add the use of a solid chat application that every organization should make mandatory. Email in-boxes are bermuda triangles for task oriented communication.

Re: Peak Oil… Meet Public Media: Social Media for Ourselves

Josh Andrews — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:08:22 -0000

IM Client preference and use vary from team to team. We are all on the same page in new media, but frankly, I have no idea how to chat up one of our reporters on a moment's notice, short of walking over to their desk. A work in progress to say the least.

Re: This NPR API is a BIG deal.

Josh Andrews — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:04:44 -0000

Todd, we haven't had a whole lot of time to go through the API details this week, but I will agree it's a big deal IF it allows stations to port more npr content to their own sites. I am all for getting my content out there on other sites and in searches all over the web - but I want to be able to have the content that our station provides on air appear on our website. Our listeners will go to stations websites more than twice a month if we can be the portal to content that we are on our broadcast signal. If that is the case, than the API is a HUGE deal and fresh and welcome approach to the system from NPR.

Re: Are your listeners asking about iPhone streaming?

Josh Andrews — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:43:33 -0000

WBEZ is on the verge of recommending the Nullriver option as well. We are waiting for an estimate on building out our own tuner app through the iPhone sdk, but I expect we'll find that cost prohibitive. (Does Ann have a $ figure she's willing to share?) I also tried to contact Nullriver about getting pubradio stations listed in their directory. No reply.

Re: New tricks: Letting the Twitter stream flow

Josh Andrews — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:53:24 -0000

Can you insert the container div into the body of a WP page using the html tab on the editor? Or do I need custom html widget as you describe?