user involvement

The demise of a social community

by John Einar Sandvand on October 28, 2010 · 3 comments

Newspaper-owned Nettby used to be Norway’s largest online social community. Then came Facebook. Gone were the media companies’ hopes of being the centers of gravity for people’s social activities.

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What is the value of editorial content?

by John Einar Sandvand on October 3, 2010 · 5 comments

How can media companies measure the value of content? Is editorial quality the only aspect? Or should they look at it from a pure commercial viewpoint?

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The leading Norwegian news sites seem to engage readers much more than the British news sites. Why is that?

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Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, just celebrated its 150 year anniversary. Check out this great interactive graphic for a fun way to ask readers to post their opinions and suggest improvements.

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Why newsrooms should innovate

by John Einar Sandvand on September 8, 2009 · 1 comment

Newsrooms must innovate – and in this video slide series you get a lot of tips about why and how. The videos are made by CoPress to inspire journalists in college papers, but I think many of their points are just as valid for professional newsrooms.

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Newspapers finally embracing web 2.0

by John Einar Sandvand on December 18, 2008 · 0 comments

Image via Wikipedia U.S. newspapers are finally embracing Web 2.0 in their web operations, according to a major survey. But is it too late?

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Letting users advise you on new products

by John Einar Sandvand on November 11, 2008 · 0 comments

Why do all the development work yourself? Quite often users are willing to help. If you ask them, that is. The state owned Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) did that today – and lots of good suggestions are coming in.

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