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Re: How social sharing varies by news topic and social platform

dkiesow — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:26:39 -0000

The activity for NYT Opinion is a function of ten stories driving 50% of the sharing in that section - mostly Romney stories. And the top story drove 10% by itself. If you ignore that outlier I wonder if the sharing that appears contrary to the editor's prioritization correlates with the uniqueness of the content?

Re: The readers we ignore and the news they want

dkiesow — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 18:00:32 -0000

Oops. Fixed. Thanks.

Re: The readers we ignore and the news they want

dkiesow — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:03:55 -0000

By "not a today" problem I assume you mean it should not still be a problem? Yes, I would say though that there are plenty of people in the business who "get it" and have been working from within for years to effect change. As the literature would argue though - it is not easy to survive disruption.

Re: HackDash

dkiesow — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:11:20 -0000

Prototype #2: Kony 2012 is a 7,000 word story published in March on Buzzfeed. It includes text and photos, but does not break into discrete sections or chapters. To enable skimming on mobile the team added a 'skim' button in the top navigation, identified key quotes and designed pull quotes to be embedded in the text. They then added a 'skim' button in the top navigation which simply jumps the reader between the quotes, providing a quick overview of the story, while keeping the reader within the main body.

Re: HackDash

dkiesow — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:00:27 -0000

Prototype #1: Utilizes a recent story from the Bangor (ME) Daily News. The article had a mixture of short video segments, animated GIFs and photos. And, it was broken into clearly defined chapters. To improve the 'skim-ability' of this piece the team designed a 'summary card' experience to top each story section. From the homepage the summaries are accessed by swiping left/right allowing a quick browse through the storyline and a quick introduction to the main characters and places. From any summary card a reader can scroll down to read that section - or quickly return to the top of the story to read from the beginning. This summary cards serve both as info nuggets and 'bookmarks' for returning readers.

Re: HackDash

dkiesow — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:56:35 -0000

Summary assets for each section. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/...

Re: HackDash

dkiesow — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:45:57 -0000

Link to the project files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/...

Re: HackDash

dkiesow — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:58:13 -0000

http://external.bangordaily...

Re: Why do people read news, why do they pay for it?

dkiesow — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:41:41 -0000

I am not arguing one content approach vs another specifically. But yes, aggregation is huge and we should be doing more of it. That falls under convenience/efficiency. But, depth of niche or geographic coverage is also valuable. What I think we are missing is how to bring the correct UX, context and availability to digital that we do/did for print.

Re: Why do people read news, why do they pay for it?

dkiesow — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:33:37 -0000

Mark -

The habits vs needs balance is up for academic debate. Some of the theory focuses on the fact that people look to conserve effort and fall into habit that directs much of their media consumption. But arguably, that habit is only created when original needs are met and reinforced. That takes us back to square one - what is the value to the reader.

Definitely, some of the strength of newsprint is inertia from 50 years of habit. But there is obviously underlying value that goes beyond that. So, are we re-creating enough of that value in digital to attract new readers, and create new habits against the competition posed be Facebook et al.

Re: ONA was mobile-friendly but what does mobile-first look like for news organizations?

dkiesow — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:00:27 -0000

Thanks Robb.

Re: The death of NFC and the potential of the new news bundle

dkiesow — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:48:01 -0000

Andrew - to expand on my answer via Twitter: A lot of media orgs are trying things - Groupon clones, consignment sales, community events, ebooks etc. But I am really looking at a model closer to the old web portal. E.g. Yahoo has news/sports, but also offers Fantasy Football tools. The question is what are those new services, connecting consumers and advertisers or consumers and non-narrative information we can get involved in.

Re: Early comments on stories affect what later readers believe, and what they say

dkiesow — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:38:00 -0000

The only problem with comments on media sites is that they are often 'set it and forget it.' Like any community comments need to be tended to.

Check Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic for how he interacts in the threads. Good example: http://www.theatlantic.com/...

Technology can help but if you can't 'afford' the human touch in your comments, don't have comments.

Re: Sharing and mobile sites

dkiesow — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:42:13 -0000

Dave -

This is a problem but is should be fairly easy to solve with canonical URLs. We share the Canonical regardless of platform and then the website can handle serving up the correct desktop/mobile view.

Re: A new way to receive breaking news updates on your iPhone

dkiesow — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:38:05 -0000

Digging into the reporting on our Push tool - we did send an alert yesterday: "US House panel holds AG Eric Holder in contempt for failing to turn over Justice documents."

To troubleshoot your Push, you can try turning off all notifications from Boston.com, and then turning them back on. Sometimes Apple does not recognize that a device has been registered - turning Push off/on might help.

Re: A new way to receive breaking news updates on your iPhone

dkiesow — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:42:40 -0000

Fix Your App -

If you have "News" selected as a channel, you will receive push notifications when a Boston.com editor believes the alert news-worthy enough to send. They use a similar judgement when delivering email or SMS alerts.

However, that does not mean every story that appears on Boston.com as 'breaking news' will necessarily be sent as an alert. I don't remember which 'breaking' story was posted last night, but I know no push alerts were sent, so you did not miss one.

The alerts are still new to the app, so we are still working to learn many or few readers expect to receive on a daily basis. So, thanks for the feedback.

Damon

Re: A new way to receive breaking news updates on your iPhone

dkiesow — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:55:22 -0000

Scauma - just FYI - the update is simply the addition of Push Notifications. The app got a slight visual redesign recently, but no other major changes.

Re: How Amy O’Leary live-tweeted her own speech — and won the #backchannel

dkiesow — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:48:47 -0000

It is a great trick - but not new. I grabbed it from Amy Webb who has been using it for a while: http://journalists.org/2011...

Re: Living in the cloud

dkiesow — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:26:34 -0000

Scot -

Well, I admit you have me out-geeked with git repos.

Damon

Re: Media companies haven’t exploited opportunities created by iPad and mobile technology

dkiesow — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:06:19 -0000

Thanks Ray. There has definitely been some progress in the past year - but I would agree with you - it is unevenly distributed so far.

Damon

Re: Media companies haven’t exploited opportunities created by iPad and mobile technology

dkiesow — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:43:32 -0000

Thanks Rick.

Damon

Re: My career v3.0: Writing and teaching mobile, social media for Poynter

dkiesow — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:40:09 -0000

Jeff -

Congratulations - I am looking forward to following your coverage.

Damon

Re: LA Times, TechCrunch introduce Facebook comments, but it’s not for everyone

dkiesow — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:33:46 -0000

Obviously we use Disqus here at Poynter and have had good luck with it - but I have worked with them for 3 years or so and they have had growing pains. But it is also a symptom of outsourcing a core site technology - sometimes you get what you pay for (free in our case.)

Damon Kiesow

Re: Publishers should follow Amazon’s lead and offer subsidized tablets

dkiesow — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:08:04 -0000

Mike -

Thanks. I did not get into Gannett's initiative with Plastic logic - but it would have been useful to see what happened if that device had not melted down after the iPad launch.

And - tough to argue the ad problem, but especially at the local level it probably would be difficult to generate enough sales to be profitable. But to some extent that assumes print is still viable in every market. Absent print - tablets might be a very attractive platform quickly if they are reaching the right audience.

Damon Kiesow

Re: Publishers should follow Amazon’s lead and offer subsidized tablets

dkiesow — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:18:07 -0000

George -

Thanks - that is nice of you to say. My fellowship was always planned to end this summer and as we speak the next candidates are being interviewed for the position. So, the blogging will continue!

Damon