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=Ready, Aim, Fire Ideas=
 
=Ready, Aim, Fire Ideas=
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<i><big>For each session today, let's talk about actions we can take in response. Some examples:</big></i>  
 
 
<i><big>For each session today, let's talk  
 
 
 
about actions we can take in response. Some  
 
 
 
examples:</big></i>  
 
  
 
<hr>
 
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===From gatekeeper to infovalet (Bill  
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===From gatekeeper to infovalet (Bill Densmore)===  
 
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===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:===  
Densmore)===  
 
===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO  
 
 
 
IMPLEMENT:===  
 
  
 
* Through Twitter, individualize  
 
* Through Twitter, individualize  
 
*How are we going to monetize it?  
 
*How are we going to monetize it?  
 
*Sports premium content  
 
*Sports premium content  
*What's your premium content for your market  
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*What's your premium content for your market / how do you segment audience  
 
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*Paid app for any city's passion (Miami git $1.99 for Dolphins app for a year)  
/ how do you segment audience  
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*Get in front of mobile; it will kill desktops
*Paid app for any city's passion (Miami git  
 
 
 
$1.99 for Dolphins app for a year)  
 
*Get in front of mobile; it will kill  
 
 
 
desktops
 
 
*iPad -- problem of Apple as gatekeeper
 
*iPad -- problem of Apple as gatekeeper
*Open Source app collaborative for news  
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*Open Source app collaborative for news media
 
 
media
 
  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
  
*Brainstorm the services you can deliver  
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*Brainstorm the services you can deliver that people will find indispensible and worth paying for. Make them.
 
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*Why should your reader tell you about their interests?  
that people will find indispensible and  
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*What can you do for them as a result to help them get through the day better?  
 
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*Why should you readers pay for news? How will you make the case to them?  
worth paying for. Make them.
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*How about creating a newshare commons in your community?  
*Why should your reader tell you about their  
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*Have you named your mobile editor? (Clyde Bentley)
 
 
interests?  
 
*What can you do for them as a result to  
 
 
 
help them get through the day better?  
 
*Why should you readers pay for news? How  
 
 
 
will you make the case to them?  
 
*How about creating a newshare commons in  
 
 
 
your community?  
 
*Have you named your mobile editor? (Clyde  
 
 
 
Bentley)
 
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
<hr>
 
<hr>
===The newspaper is not dead, long live the  
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===The newspaper is not dead, long live the newspaper (John Foreman)===
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===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:===
  
newspaper (John Foreman)===
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*Can't be cafeteria any more / prioritize; break news online; print more deliberate and context
===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO
 
 
 
IMPLEMENT:===
 
 
 
*Can't be cafeteria any more / prioritize;  
 
 
 
break news online; print more deliberate and  
 
 
 
context
 
 
*Dispense with process stories
 
*Dispense with process stories
 
*Use Associated Content? No consensus.
 
*Use Associated Content? No consensus.
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<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
  
*How do we service non-newspaper readers and  
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*How do we service non-newspaper readers and not abandon the core newspaper readers? Why should we?  
 
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*What are the things newspapers do best? How do we dispense with the rest?
not abandon the core newspaper readers? Why  
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*Can we focus on both preserving print and be first in web services?  
 
 
should we?  
 
*What are the things newspapers do best? How  
 
 
 
do we dispense with the rest?
 
*Can we focus on both preserving print and  
 
 
 
be first in web services?  
 
  
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
<hr>
 
<hr>
===Video innovation in a tought budget (Dave  
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===Video innovation in a tought budget (Dave Morris)===  
 
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===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:===  
Morris)===  
 
===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO  
 
 
 
IMPLEMENT:===  
 
  
 
*All reporters will have Flip cameras  
 
*All reporters will have Flip cameras  
*J-Lab/Knight Digital/NewsU is free; camera  
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*J-Lab/Knight Digital/NewsU is free; camera is $95  
 
 
is $95  
 
 
*Annoint a champion on the staff  
 
*Annoint a champion on the staff  
 
*Get the public to tag their photos/video
 
*Get the public to tag their photos/video
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<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
  
*What will it take to equip all reporters  
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*What will it take to equip all reporters with a videocamera?  
 
 
with a videocamera?  
 
 
*How are you going to make that happen?  
 
*How are you going to make that happen?  
*How are you going to get what they do  
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*How are you going to get what they do edited and posted, at little cost?  
 
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*How about an active outreach to the public to submit video?  
edited and posted, at little cost?  
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*Strategies for deciding how stories can best be told / multimedia bingo
*How about an active outreach to the public  
 
 
 
to submit video?  
 
*Strategies for deciding how stories can  
 
 
 
best be told / multimedia bingo
 
  
 
<hr>
 
<hr>
===Tweets and social networking (Steve  
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===Tweets and social networking (Steve Buttry)===
 
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===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:===  
Buttry)===
 
===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO  
 
 
 
IMPLEMENT:===  
 
  
 
*Use Twitter regularly  
 
*Use Twitter regularly  
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* Get past the hate factor
 
* Get past the hate factor
 
* Plan ahead for SM component of big stories
 
* Plan ahead for SM component of big stories
* Implement hash tag taxonomy for your  
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* Implement hash tag taxonomy for your community
 
 
community
 
 
*Develop industry-level hash-tag system?
 
*Develop industry-level hash-tag system?
  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
  
*Name a reporter as your social-media  
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*Name a reporter as your social-media curator / guide  
 
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*Ask the public to hashtag onto Twitter feeds you create  
curator / guide  
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*Connect your newsroom with the public in physical/virtual venues
*Ask the public to hashtag onto Twitter  
 
 
 
feeds you create  
 
*Connect your newsroom with the public in  
 
 
 
physical/virtual venues
 
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
<hr>
 
<hr>
===Managing newsroom change (Mizell  
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===Managing newsroom change (Mizell Stewart)===
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===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:===
  
Stewart)===
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*What's the worst career thing to happen as comparison to reality
===IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO
 
 
 
IMPLEMENT:===
 
 
 
*What's the worst career thing to happen as  
 
 
 
comparison to reality
 
 
*Be cognizant of managing change stages
 
*Be cognizant of managing change stages
*Challenge senior editors with goals for  
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*Challenge senior editors with goals for continuous monthly incremental change
 
 
continuous monthly incremental change
 
 
*Cross-pollenate change mentality
 
*Cross-pollenate change mentality
 
*Remember human element / be kind
 
*Remember human element / be kind
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<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
 
<b>LEADING QUESTIONS:</b>  
  
*When will you have a newsroom-change staff  
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*When will you have a newsroom-change staff retreat?
 
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*How do you inject sense of urgency into a "we've always done it this way" environment?
retreat?
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*Hold a community-information needs summit in your city -- get public help!
*How do you inject sense of urgency into a  
 
 
 
"we've always done it this way" environment?
 
*Hold a community-information needs summit  
 
 
 
in your city -- get public help!
 

Revision as of 22:37, 13 February 2010

Ready, Aim, Fire Ideas

(this page is here: http://tinyurl.com/mpi-actions)

For each session today, let's talk about actions we can take in response. Some examples:


From gatekeeper to infovalet (Bill Densmore)

IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:

  • Through Twitter, individualize
  • How are we going to monetize it?
  • Sports premium content
  • What's your premium content for your market / how do you segment audience
  • Paid app for any city's passion (Miami git $1.99 for Dolphins app for a year)
  • Get in front of mobile; it will kill desktops
  • iPad -- problem of Apple as gatekeeper
  • Open Source app collaborative for news media

LEADING QUESTIONS:

  • Brainstorm the services you can deliver that people will find indispensible and worth paying for. Make them.
  • Why should your reader tell you about their interests?
  • What can you do for them as a result to help them get through the day better?
  • Why should you readers pay for news? How will you make the case to them?
  • How about creating a newshare commons in your community?
  • Have you named your mobile editor? (Clyde Bentley)



The newspaper is not dead, long live the newspaper (John Foreman)

IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:

  • Can't be cafeteria any more / prioritize; break news online; print more deliberate and context
  • Dispense with process stories
  • Use Associated Content? No consensus.
  • Port online to print

LEADING QUESTIONS:

  • How do we service non-newspaper readers and not abandon the core newspaper readers? Why should we?
  • What are the things newspapers do best? How do we dispense with the rest?
  • Can we focus on both preserving print and be first in web services?



Video innovation in a tought budget (Dave Morris)

IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:

  • All reporters will have Flip cameras
  • J-Lab/Knight Digital/NewsU is free; camera is $95
  • Annoint a champion on the staff
  • Get the public to tag their photos/video

LEADING QUESTIONS:

  • What will it take to equip all reporters with a videocamera?
  • How are you going to make that happen?
  • How are you going to get what they do edited and posted, at little cost?
  • How about an active outreach to the public to submit video?
  • Strategies for deciding how stories can best be told / multimedia bingo

Tweets and social networking (Steve Buttry)

IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:

  • Use Twitter regularly
  • SM curator/guide is an evangelist
  • Make SM part of competence
  • Get past the hate factor
  • Plan ahead for SM component of big stories
  • Implement hash tag taxonomy for your community
  • Develop industry-level hash-tag system?

LEADING QUESTIONS:

  • Name a reporter as your social-media curator / guide
  • Ask the public to hashtag onto Twitter feeds you create
  • Connect your newsroom with the public in physical/virtual venues



Managing newsroom change (Mizell Stewart)

IDEAS WE HEARD THAT WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT:

  • What's the worst career thing to happen as comparison to reality
  • Be cognizant of managing change stages
  • Challenge senior editors with goals for continuous monthly incremental change
  • Cross-pollenate change mentality
  • Remember human element / be kind
  • Importance of training

LEADING QUESTIONS:

  • When will you have a newsroom-change staff retreat?
  • How do you inject sense of urgency into a "we've always done it this way" environment?
  • Hold a community-information needs summit in your city -- get public help!