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Beatblogging success story: The “Open for Business” sign

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TweetI love the beatblogging project because it’s innovation in real newsroom laboratories, as opposed to tsk-tsking and dreaming. My foray into it has had its ups and downs, but I recently had a kind of success story that I didn’t expect when I signed up. And it shows why I believe so much that social …

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The newspaper site as community connector

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TweetNewspapers have a tremendous opportunity to re-brand themselves as the center of the online community, connecting people to each other in every way possible. But that window is so enormously small, I fear very few papers will take advantage. It’ll be a fatal blow, and we’ll be kicking ourselves that there weren’t more entrepreneurs inside …

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