Comments on: Small News Reporters http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/ Learn How Human Business Works - Beyond Social Media Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Christmas tree http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-188715 Christmas tree Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:35:05 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-188715 comedy captain ... good acts comedy captain … good acts

]]> By: Christmas tree http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-180381 Christmas tree Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:35:05 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-180381 comedy captain ... good acts comedy captain … good acts

]]> By: Leave news to normal people — Vad NU! http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146802 Leave news to normal people — Vad NU! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:54:13 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146802 [...] for the part with the better way, Chris Brogan makes an excellent suggestion: Why not let normal people facilitate the small news? The news that are so petit that it may be hard to justify for the big media company to spend [...] [...] for the part with the better way, Chris Brogan makes an excellent suggestion: Why not let normal people facilitate the small news? The news that are so petit that it may be hard to justify for the big media company to spend [...]

]]> By: Deb http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146760 Deb Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:31:32 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146760 we've been doing it for a year here in Iowa. My business partner and I created a free, daily newsletter that promotes shopping local. Wildly successful! Paid advertisers - and always free to get an interview about you and your business! All non profit events are listed for free (schools, churches, community events - you name it, we list it). We are creating a ning page with a widget so you can receive it on your cell phone. You can already get the pdf in your email. We've got interviews with local businesses and also with people like Keith Burtis and Chris Brogan. see www.debworks.com for some shameless self promotion! Deb ps I love how Chris just gets a great conversation going! we’ve been doing it for a year here in Iowa. My business partner and I created a free, daily newsletter that promotes shopping local. Wildly successful! Paid advertisers – and always free to get an interview about you and your business! All non profit events are listed for free (schools, churches, community events – you name it, we list it).

We are creating a ning page with a widget so you can receive it on your cell phone. You can already get the pdf in your email.

We’ve got interviews with local businesses and also with people like Keith Burtis and Chris Brogan.

see http://www.debworks.com for some shameless self promotion!

Deb

ps I love how Chris just gets a great conversation going!

]]> By: Veckan som gick - vecka 48 at Same Same But Different http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146737 Veckan som gick - vecka 48 at Same Same But Different Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:20:48 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146737 [...] Brogan har en intressant postning om att faktiskt bli journalist i det lilla. Och uppmanar sina läsare att kanske lära andra just [...] [...] Brogan har en intressant postning om att faktiskt bli journalist i det lilla. Och uppmanar sina läsare att kanske lära andra just [...]

]]> By: Chris Brogan Pimps Hyperlocal http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146735 Chris Brogan Pimps Hyperlocal Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:55:31 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146735 [...] night I posted about Seth Godin pimping hyperlocal, and today it’s Chris Brogan’s turn. Only Chris uses the term “small news” to describe what sounds to me like hyperlocal [...] [...] night I posted about Seth Godin pimping hyperlocal, and today it’s Chris Brogan’s turn. Only Chris uses the term “small news” to describe what sounds to me like hyperlocal [...]

]]> By: Matt McGee http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146734 Matt McGee Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:46:02 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146734 Not sure what exactly you mean by "small news," Chris, but there's a growing movement of hyperlocal blogging that's well underway -- and realtors, as you say, are one of the primary industries doing it. Hyperlocal blogging is exactly what it sounds like -- blogging about things happening on your street, at the local mall, the Little League fields, etc. I suspect it's what you mean by "small news." :-) It's blogging about life happening around you, including news that traditional media often overlooks. I'd invite you to check out www.hyperlocalblogger.com if you're interested in a community of local bloggers. Not sure what exactly you mean by “small news,” Chris, but there’s a growing movement of hyperlocal blogging that’s well underway — and realtors, as you say, are one of the primary industries doing it.

Hyperlocal blogging is exactly what it sounds like — blogging about things happening on your street, at the local mall, the Little League fields, etc. I suspect it’s what you mean by “small news.” :-) It’s blogging about life happening around you, including news that traditional media often overlooks.

I’d invite you to check out http://www.hyperlocalblogger.com if you’re interested in a community of local bloggers.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146718 Lisa Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:44:28 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146718 Two comments in one day. I worked for a newspaper that was going down a dark path and all the good people quit. Four of the reporters got together and started "a news cafe" - The cast, the former editor, the former opinion columnist, the former cartoonist and the former entertainment writer. Their site is really catching on the community. http://donigreenberg.com (I have no affiliation, this isn't a shameless plug.) Two comments in one day.

I worked for a newspaper that was going down a dark path and all the good people quit. Four of the reporters got together and started “a news cafe” – The cast, the former editor, the former opinion columnist, the former cartoonist and the former entertainment writer.

Their site is really catching on the community. http://donigreenberg.com (I have no affiliation, this isn’t a shameless plug.)

]]> By: Tracy @ WSB http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146715 Tracy @ WSB Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:30:29 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146715 As an earlier commenter said, this is already happening. Maybe some parts of the country are behind? We have several booming neighborhood-news sites here in Seattle; I am a 30-year veteran journalist (from newspapers to TV) who left the old-media biz to work on our site fulltime a year ago (my husband is our business-development director) and our revenue covers all family and business expenses, plus we are interviewing for our first job opening (part-time but it's a start, and we already pay freelancers when we need to make assignments). As for Twitter - among other uses, a few of us use the (neighborhood name) search RSS feed as a news feed on our sites. I love Twitter and evangelize it like mad but I'm finding that just as many people are using FB as a news source and info-sharing medium. As an earlier commenter said, this is already happening. Maybe some parts of the country are behind? We have several booming neighborhood-news sites here in Seattle; I am a 30-year veteran journalist (from newspapers to TV) who left the old-media biz to work on our site fulltime a year ago (my husband is our business-development director) and our revenue covers all family and business expenses, plus we are interviewing for our first job opening (part-time but it’s a start, and we already pay freelancers when we need to make assignments). As for Twitter – among other uses, a few of us use the (neighborhood name) search RSS feed as a news feed on our sites. I love Twitter and evangelize it like mad but I’m finding that just as many people are using FB as a news source and info-sharing medium.

]]> By: Pascal Venier http://www.chrisbrogan.com/small-news-reporters/comment-page-1/#comment-146708 Pascal Venier Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:09:33 +0000 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?p=2959#comment-146708 @Steve Garfield Very true. Twitter reminds me a lot of the "Arbre de Cracovie" (Tree of Cracow) in Paris in the 18th Century studied by Princeton Historian Robert Darnton. However Twitter's role is global as opposed to local for the Tree of Cracow. See: "An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris". http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html @Steve Garfield
Very true. Twitter reminds me a lot of the
“Arbre de Cracovie” (Tree of Cracow) in Paris in the 18th Century studied by Princeton Historian Robert Darnton. However Twitter’s role is global as opposed to local for the Tree of Cracow.
See: “An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris”. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html

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