Comments on: How to Save A Newspaper http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=487 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elona Hartjes http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=487&cpage=1#comment-1034 Elona Hartjes Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:46:24 +0000 http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=487#comment-1034 Mathew, I especially like your suggestion #4 showing more videos. I'm always asking google for a video on a topic. I like Teach_J's idea about allowing comments and Wanda's idea about being able to choose a format depending how you are connected. My pet peeve is that when I try to go back to reread an article it's no longer available. Mathew,
I especially like your suggestion #4 showing more videos. I’m always asking google for a video on a topic. I like Teach_J’s idea about allowing comments and Wanda’s idea about being able to choose a format depending how you are connected. My pet peeve is that when I try to go back to reread an article it’s no longer available.

]]> By: Wanda D. http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=487&cpage=1#comment-1033 Wanda D. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:14:34 +0000 http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=487#comment-1033 How about making them more like books. People who read newspapers like to take there time, sit down and read a well written, well researched story. You cannot always find that on on a website. Make it easily viewable on a handheld device as opposed to a regular sized screen, this is in addition to the regular formatting. I am sitting in a coffee shop and I want to catch up a good story on a Sunday Morning. If I could get that story via my blackberry I don't mind reading it but make it worth my while. Maybe offer a long an a short version, if I have my lap top. I can choose the format with more pictures on the larger view that I might select to use on the handheld. Certain stories may really interest me but I cannot read it when it was first published and I cannot find it on Sunday when I have time to read it. Can I save stories and have the story send me a reminder to read it (with teasers of course). I'm still here, I still read - personally I look at about dozen news sites a day. My local paper (in Detroit) has very little online presence so I rarely read it. Come find me and I will read you. Hint, I am not sitting at home waiting for the paper, but I am always connected, cell phone, blog, websites, twitter, facebook In LinkedIn. If you cannot find me, you are not looking hard enough. I love to be informed. How about making them more like books. People who read newspapers like to take there time, sit down and read a well written, well researched story. You cannot always find that on on a website. Make it easily viewable on a handheld device as opposed to a regular sized screen, this is in addition to the regular formatting. I am sitting in a coffee shop and I want to catch up a good story on a Sunday Morning. If I could get that story via my blackberry I don’t mind reading it but make it worth my while. Maybe offer a long an a short version, if I have my lap top. I can choose the format with more pictures on the larger view that I might select to use on the handheld. Certain stories may really interest me but I cannot read it when it was first published and I cannot find it on Sunday when I have time to read it. Can I save stories and have the story send me a reminder to read it (with teasers of course).
I’m still here, I still read – personally I look at about dozen news sites a day. My local paper (in Detroit) has very little online presence so I rarely read it. Come find me and I will read you. Hint, I am not sitting at home waiting for the paper, but I am always connected, cell phone, blog, websites, twitter, facebook In LinkedIn. If you cannot find me, you are not looking hard enough. I love to be informed.

]]> By: Teach_J http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=487&cpage=1#comment-1032 Teach_J Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:33:00 +0000 http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=487#comment-1032 -Make the videos large enough to see. On many NP sites, the video previews are tiny. Look at TV station sites, see how big their video boxes are. -Like/Don't Like boxes for stories and videos. Then you can have a trending topics/stories box to show what people like. -Allow people in the community to moderate comments. Heck, pay them a small amount to do so. Find people in the comment sections who are articulate and fair. Ask them if they want to do it. Give them a short training on your standards and then let them moderate and keep an eye on them so they don't kill all the comments, just the trolls. -Make the videos large enough to see. On many NP sites, the video previews are tiny. Look at TV station sites, see how big their video boxes are.

-Like/Don’t Like boxes for stories and videos. Then you can have a trending topics/stories box to show what people like.

-Allow people in the community to moderate comments. Heck, pay them a small amount to do so. Find people in the comment sections who are articulate and fair. Ask them if they want to do it. Give them a short training on your standards and then let them moderate and keep an eye on them so they don’t kill all the comments, just the trolls.

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