Jonathan Dube hat die letztjährigen "60 ways to improve your news site" aktualisiert und ergänzt. Aus den 60 Tipps sind deren 101 geworden. z.B.:

Post a form at the end of a breaking news story asking witnesses to send in details of what they saw – and then add the information you can verify to the story.

Invite anyone in your community to write Weblogs for your news site.

Take the best content from Weblogs on your news site (now that you’ve got so many) and publish them in your newspaper.

Don’t just add “Discuss story” links to stories – include the comments at the bottom or on the right rail of the page and make them part of the visible story.

Create two different home pages – one with dayparting and one without – and deliver each to half your users randomly, and compare.

Put only local news and content on your home page.

Promote something online that will be in the next day’s paper or on the next newscast – and then don’t post that story online.

Set up a service so that readers can get alerts any time a story they’ve already read gets updated – or corrected

Create RSS feeds focused on niche topics your site covers.

Design an algorithm to automatically hotlink the names of any major newsmakers in your community to bio pages and recent stories about them.

Build dedicated pages for every neighborhood in your circulation area with useful local information, links and related headlines from your site automatically pulled in.

Create online memorial pages for every obituary – not just those of celebrities -- so friends and relatives can post their memories.

Create an army of citizen reporters to help cover hyper-local news your organization has abandoned, like community meetings or Little League games.

Have every reporter on staff spend a day only writing and producing for the Web.

Critique your Web site – along with your newspaper or newscast – at the beginning of every budget meeting.

Use your Web site to avoid censoring content – i.e. put any gruesome war photos online behind a disclaimer, rather than not publishing at all.

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Jonathan Dube: 101 Ways to improve your News Site (Weitere Ideen und Kommentare dort erwünscht.)
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