Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.USA Today On Deadline led me to an epiphany the other day: News sites can use social networking communities to build traffic back to the news sites!
How do news sites do it? Well, they don’t. At least, not effectively.
Since […]
Update: This post was written when I was misinformed about baseview. Although I still don’t like it because it creates rich text characters and ASCII squares when copying text from it and pasting the text into Movable Type blogs, I know that it’s not Baseview that is creating the URL issues. Regardless, news sites should […]
Poynter’s Steve Klein gives a nearly perfect description today of the redesign at the Chicago Tribune’s web site, stating:
Most news site redesigns these days seem to emphasize interactivity and social media. This redesign seems more traditional (old-fashioned?) in nature. It’s neat. It’s clean.
I agree with the “traditional” tag. Owned by the Tribune company, the Chicago […]
A week or so ago, a thread on the ONA listserv asked members about their experiences using tabbed promo boxes to promote different stories/sections.
I’ve long been a fan of these boxes, which allow producers to cram more stories on the front page of a site and gives readers teasers into sections so they don’t have […]
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