http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/03/02/ny-times-goes-hyperlocal/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/03/02/ny-times-goes-hyperlocal/comment-page-1/#comment-2982 Angela Connor Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:35:46 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1715#comment-2982 A nice call to action and clearly a good idea (ask Tracy Record of West Seattle Blog) but it's going to take much more than a post encouraging people to send in everything but the kitchen sink. I know because I manage an online community of more than 11,000 members and depend on them for their content. Engagement is key. At t he end of the day, you need an engagement strategy. I wish them well. A nice call to action and clearly a good idea (ask Tracy Record of West Seattle Blog) but it’s going to take much more than a post encouraging people to send in everything but the kitchen sink. I know because I manage an online community of more than 11,000 members and depend on them for their content. Engagement is key. At t he end of the day, you need an engagement strategy. I wish them well.

]]> http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/03/02/ny-times-goes-hyperlocal/comment-page-1/#comment-2981 Trading Ideas Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:05:26 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1715#comment-2981 The NYT certainly needs to do something, as do all newspapers, they are talking about making their online version subscription only and in the article they are asked 'how will you make money out of this'? and they say 'we don't know'. My suggestion for what it's worth is they need to team up with Google. Google is the market leader in advertising and the NYT needs a drastic solution to help them survive. (I don't work for Google by the way). The NYT certainly needs to do something, as do all newspapers, they are talking about making their online version subscription only and in the article they are asked ‘how will you make money out of this’? and they say ‘we don’t know’. My suggestion for what it’s worth is they need to team up with Google. Google is the market leader in advertising and the NYT needs a drastic solution to help them survive. (I don’t work for Google by the way).

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