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Experiments in Community Building
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CUP 76 | Community Building | |
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Karen Unland (Capital Ideas) | |
Sam Brook’s boss | |
Brittney LeBlanc (gastropost) | |
news radio | |
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being a part of the community | |
The Mission: | |
1. Serve a community | |
2. Engage lots of people | |
3. Make money | |
4. Be lean | |
peole like being pait attention to | |
broken business model | |
digital doesn’t fix it | |
Things that don’t work: | |
guilt | |
threats | |
paywalls | |
wishing and hoping | |
better journalism (necessary but not sufficient) | |
Things that might work: | |
true engagement | |
understand the real competition | |
everything else they can spend their time on | |
pay attention like nobody else can or will | |
less broadcasting more interaction | |
Are you making people happy? | |
Hard questions | |
are they sharing | |
are they doing what you ask them to do | |
article questions | |
3 lines free | |
More hard questions | |
if you don’t engage your community, why should advertisers gie you money? | |
if you don’t serve your community, why should students give you money? | |
Good news | |
You’re already better than your predecessors | |
the stakes are low -- try stuff! | |
you can tell what works | |
nothing you learn will be wasted | |
always measure the outcomes | |
EXPERIMENT! | |
PHOTO NEWS STORIES | |
fail | |
read blogs | |
bands |
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