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Links: Building an online community from scratch – what does it take?
As part of the build-up to news:rewired we want to give you some food for thought before each of our sessions.
So we’ll be posting a collection of tools, links and ideas relevant to each of the subjects up for discussion. Think of it like a reading list or a starting point for questions on the day.
First up is Building an Online Community from Scratch with Ed Walker, Neil Perkins and Anthony Thornton and some key blog posts from the speakers themselves and other experts.
Slideshow: news:rewired speakers caught on camera
Our speakers at news:rewired – the nouveau niche were captured in full arm-waving, hand-gesturing swing by Journalism.co.uk’s @johncthompson.
#newsrw: Your essential catch-up guide to news:rewired – the nouveau niche
We’ve done our best to round up all the coverage from our news:rewired conference at Microsoft UK last Friday, but it’s likely we’ve missed some. So please, please send anything else our way and we’ll add it in: tweet @journalismnews or drop us an email events [at] newsrewired.com. We’ll follow this up with as many of the speaker’s presentations as possible.
#newsrw: Online conversation and the value of comments
For many sites, a lot of commenters is a benchmark of online publishing success. But why do publishers encourage comments and what value can they get from it? An afternoon breakout session at news:rewired sought to find out…
#newsrw: Marc Reeves keynote: journalists need to learn to help sell niche, targeted content
Readers have always thought of themselves in niches, claims Reeves, who calls the regional press foolish for thinking of a community of 100,000 as a single group
#newsrw: Users are an essential source of information, agree UGC panellists
Journalists need to lead by example in terms of sharing, and cultivate close-knit communities around content, according Paul Bradshaw, founder of crowdsourced investigative site Help Me Investigate
#newsrw: the Times, RBI confident of a paid-for news future
Times assistant editor said paywall alternatives meant “enormously intrusive advertising”, and claims that at a lot of sites “the barrier between journalism and commercial was getting very thin”
#newsrw: How to follow Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event
The tickets have been snapped up and the speakers are ready: the final countdown to news:rewired begins. On Friday 25 June 2010, Journalism.co.uk will host its second news:rewired event – ‘the nouveau niche’, at Microsoft UK in London.
United Business Media tops list of B2B publishers represented at news:rewired
news:rewired – the nouveau niche, to be held in London on Friday 25 June, is an event aimed specifically at business-to-business (B2B) publishers and UK journalists working on niche titles will be well represented both on the panels and in the audience. To demonstrate this, we have created this Wordle, showing where our delegates and […]