This course is a core requirement for the Digital Publishing belt.
GET STARTED:
AVAILABLE COURSES:
- Poynter NewsU – Build and engage audiences online
- Poynter NewsU – Online readers and newsroom credibility gap
- Poynter NewsU – Dealing with difficult conversations
- Poynter NewsU – Handling race and ethnicity
- Poynter NewsU – New habits of news consumers
- Poynter NewsU – Lousy listeners: How to avoid being one
- Poynter NewsU – Religion, Culture and Society: Getting beyond the cliches
- Digital Ninjas – Steve Buttry workshop on reader engagement
- JRC Intranet – Web 2.0 and engagement
FROM STEVE BUTTRY:
- Yes, engagement is everyone’s job — and my job
- What does ‘community engagement’ mean?
- A simple community engagement step: Share your daily news budgets
- Michigan tornado coverage shows off Heritage journalists digital skills
FROM MANDY JENKINS:
FROM DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA:
- Chris March – 6 ways to prevent crime and murder with digital tools
FROM POYNTER:
- 5 small steps journalists can take to build bigger, more engaged audience
- 7 steps to building trust and credibility with an online audience
- How to foster better conversations in comments sections
- Assessing legal risks and guidelines for user comments
- Interesting approaches to dealing with comments (see Jim Brady’s approach)
- How to use Urtak, a collaborative polling tool to increase reader engagement
- 7 steps to building trust and credibility with an online audience
- How to respond to internet name-calling
- How ABC News built a top social media presence with a small, dedicated team
MORE RESOURCES:
- Mashable – 10 rules for increasing community engagement
DIGITAL MASTERS:
- Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement, Digital First Media
sbuttry@journalregister.com - Mandy Jenkins, Digital Projects Editor, Digital First Media
mjenkins@digitalfirstmedia.com - Ivan Lajara, Reader Engagement Editor, Digital First Media East
ilajara@journalregister.com - Dan Petty, Reader Engagement Editor, Digital First Media Central
dpetty@denverpost.com
Recommend a link or resource for students of this material: cmarch@journalregister.com
:A simple community engagement step” Has some extra code in the URL
Ah, yes. The ol ‘double http’ trick. Thanks, Mark – it’s been corrected.