Several quick notes from the Social / Community bureau:
I’ll be holding weekly Social Media drop-in sessions to share successes, field questions and fight crime. We’ll start Thursday, Feb. 3, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the A1 Conference room. There will be no set agenda; it’ll be open mic for an hour. Bring lunch if you’re hungry.
Reader photos: Southern California Moments, a collaboration between Photo, Features, Metro and our readers is producing some incredible results. We are picking one reader photo a day – capturing a Southern California moment – for 2011 and posting them on L.A. Now and a page that shows all the photos. The response has been very strong. Readers have submitted more than 1,300 photos on the site and our Flickr group.
Another daily deal: Reader Erik Shveima is drawing the front page of the Los Angeles Times every day for a year and blogging about it at Mixed Media Daily. We’ve added a widget to the L.A. Times Community page to pull his latest work onto the site (it’s in the right rail of the Community).
Here's a more advanced use of Storify. D.C. online news site TBD used the tool to build a snow-storm-vs.-the-commute post. It's a great way to blend old-time reporting with crowd sourcing on a story that is experienced by a large cross-section of people.
Here' a screen grab (click through to see the original) of our blog post about celebrity reaction on Twitter to President Obama’s State of the Union address:
Below is a re-creation I did in Storify. It took me about 10 minutes, and I didn’t have to deal with messy formatting details or copy-pasting hyperlinks. Of course, being a family-newspaper-type website, we couldn’t have included Vinny’s tweet in the Storify portion, but that’s a small price to pay, in my opinion. Plus Storify builds in tools that make it easy to share your post (on Twitter) with the people you quoted (from Twitter). It’s feedback-loop building genius.
Tweeters' Digest: What TV celebs tweeted during the State of the Union speech
It takes a special kind of celebrity to let go of their daily self-promotional twitter rituals and involve themselves in the political news of the day. Here's what a handful of actors, commentators and reality stars tweeted last night:
Creating an account with still-beta Storify is dead simple. Just sign onto your Twitter account, go to Storify, and hit the *Login* button. The tools are drag drop and very intuitive, but if you have specific questions feel free to ping me.
Some interesting takeaways from the Facebook/Online News Assn. event I attended at Facebook HQ last week:
Here are some of the choice tweets and a YouTube video from the event:
It could be that Twitter research is popular because Twitter data is free and so accessible. That's okay. Gift horses are just as good for riding.
The best, latest entry in Twitter research is the handiwork of Meeyoung Cha from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. (Co-authors are: Hamed Haddadi, Royal Veterinary College, University of London; Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Krishna P. Bummadi, also from Max Planck Institute.)
http://blogs.hbr.org/research/2010/05/influence-and-twitter.html#