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Ben Franklin in a Box
Part of the Ben Franklin Project is to share the knowledge and experiences learned during the process and invite others to comment, critique and improve on the efforts. To that end, the staff at The News-Herald (OH) prepared a step-by-step … Continue reading
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Ben Franklin 2.0: Independence and the ideaLab
By John Paton Our successful Ben Franklin Project ( http://bit.ly/apHRbA ) has shown the world that in an industry that can be bereft of good ideas that smart people with the willingness to take a risk can produce revolutionary results. … Continue reading
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Video, photo and other tools still needed
Since the announcement of the Ben Franklin Project by Journal Register’s CEO John Paton, we have received some tremendous interest and some wonderful feedback spurred by those watching and those helping. To date we’ve received suggestions of about 100 tools … Continue reading
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Comments from John Paton’s blog on The Ben Franklin Project
Sam Piroton Says: April 13, 2010 at 9:16 pm | Reply Here is another good link; topic “a google newsroom”. really worth reading; was written by Benoit Raphael, director of lepost.fr. http://owni.fr/2010/02/12/towards-the-google-newsroom-a-revolution-for-media/ Thanks to my friend @davanac for the alert. … Continue reading
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What they’re saying on Buzzmachine
What Jeff Jarvis’ readers are saying about The Ben Franklin Project Morgan Holt says: April 12, 2010 at 4:34 pm Great article. Step by step we’re starting to piece together the ‘new’ newspaper. This model reminds me of the middle-eastern … Continue reading
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Pulling content from other sources
From Ivan Lajara Without mentioning the obvious (FB, Twitter, flips, cojones): * Crimereports.com, if your community is in it. * SeeClickFix.com, otherwise (the ones that can be published). * http://twitpic.com/, for live photo-reporting with smartphones. * Coveritlive.com for live chats … Continue reading
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Pulling a post from Paton
By jrcdigital If you haven’t seen John Paton’s latest blog post, we’re going to be having some fun in the next 30 days. What tools should we added to the tool shed? Here’s a quick excerpt if you haven’t given … Continue reading
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More tools to research
What have you used? What can you offer feedback on? From Mark Lewis We should start this project with a direct survey of our audience. Google Docs has a handy form that would work well for our purposes. We can … Continue reading
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What tools should we use?
As Journal Register moves forward with the Ben Franklin Project we’re looking for suggestions of what tools we can use for this project. Here is a partial breakdown of the tasks. What tools do you think would work best? – … Continue reading
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