When TV Listens To Its Viewers, Amazing Things Happen
April 28, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at ways news organizations can connect and interact with their viewership. This morning I was greeted by a basic, but excellent interaction on Good Morning America.
I’ve got ABC turned on in my hotel room this morning for background noise and they ran a story about the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair which has some photographs of Miley Cyrus (Story here) scantily clad. Cyrus is a huge Disney made and owned child start at only 15. As always, the GMA web site is open to comments on stories, and they actively solicit “editorial” based feedback via email as well.
It’s now 8am EDT and the original story aired no more than 30 minutes ago, there are already 150+ comments on the story from people pro and against the photos and dolling out advice. This level of immediate feedback and interaction is awesome! What’s more, just a few minutes ago the Good Morning America talking heads came back from a commercial break and spent 30 seconds discussing the comments they were seeing on their web site.
This interaction and discussion online, and on-air has tremendous power, and I hope that it’s something your news organization is open to or considering doing.
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-25
February 25, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- @jowyang yes I’d say so. #
- I’m tracking ‘academy awards’ are you? #
- #aa08 montages always rock! #
- #aa08 I could do without the Titanic song #
- #aa08 yeah for iPhones! #
- @iellie wasn’t it wonderful? LOL #
- #aa08 don’t think I’ve seen any of the animated movies #
- #aa08 wonder why there hasn’t been a Netflix commercial yet? #
- #aa08 Steve jobs wins again with the rat movie. Gotta love Pixar! #
- #aa08 katherine is beautiful #
- #aa08 havent seen this winner. #
- Of like to see Enchanted #
- #aa08 thank Disney for the academy awards’? ABC/rat/this song #
- @brb there’s ur in! #
- #aa08 this is the first academy award iveseen since being press for it 3 years ago #
- Think Twitter can handle the awards’ tonight? #
- #aa08 the rock is a Disney star as well…. #
- #aa08 stupid golden compass movie #
- #aa08 now a walt Disney quote? #
- #aa08 my Netflix queue is seriously growing quickly, I feel bad that I haven’t seen these movies. #
- @annier consider it done/added! #
- It’s events like this when I love Twitter SMS, and my unlimited Texting plan on my iPhone! I’m sure I’ll hit 1000+ incoming tonight #
- @kindushinski geez, i’m up to like 60 I think (although many of those are HBO series’ that I want to see in addition to movies. #
- #aa08 Michael Clayton was good, it’s one that I actually saw. #
- @waydbot participating in the #aa08 Tweeme-a-thon and watching the Oscars. u? #
- @mariosundar definitely so! #
- #aa08 just because it’s user-generated… doesn’t mean the Dove commercial can’t have good production value, come on people! #
- @aa08 very tastefil binoc. and scope montage
# - @rabeidoh agree that the girl is good. #
- @chironae yeah she can #
- @sonnygill indeed, this one is pretty good, song is just ok though. #
- #aa08 Owen, boring and monotone much? #
- Didn’t see Beee movie either, didn’t really look all that good. #aa08 #
- sooo…. are American filmmakers that bad that these are all foreign films? #aa08 #
- @annieR I haven’t been out to the new location yet, I figure I might see a couple shows at the film fest this coming weekend. #
- #aa08 hmm, worst dressed nominee? #
- @sturlington you got that right, geez #
- by the way, I ordered a new case for my iPhone today, I’m going with the PDO TopSkin http://tinyurl.com/ypyfvu #
- @aanier I’ll have to head down and get tickets tomorrow afternoon maybe. #
- This is the first time I’ve watched TV ‘live’ in a long time, I almost always wait until 20 minutes after the hour to start a 1-hour show. #
- Miley is so bubbly, gotta love her #aa08 #
- This rendition is pretty funky-fresh #aa08 #
- I wish Oprah would give me a big bundle of cash, I’d love giving it away too. #
- Angelina joke is a new classic, I actually LOLd #aa08 #
- Bourne did have GREAT sound editing #aa08 #
- Seriously? come on AMPAS #aa08 #
- "Thank you life, Thank you love" is the official quote of the year. #
- I’ve never played a wii, anyone want to invite me over for a game? #
- This song sounds really flat #aa08 #
- The "legendary Jack Nicholson" took his dark shades off and now has his light shades on. #aa08 #
- @annier have you been? I wanted to go last time I was in LA, but didn’t get a chance. #
- Alright, Renee is just plain cute no matter when/where #aa08 #
- @annier interesting, it does appear to be beautiful #
- #aa08 The Bourne Ultimatum is a total hit tonight, quite surprising. #
- I didn’t think Kidman was there tonight, they had a static picture of her in the ‘baby’ #aa08 #
- Now that is a heck of a necklace, ha! holy cow that thing is out of control. #aa08 #
- @annier never had the pleasure of Nutella in my kitchen, can’t quite bring myself to it. #
- The Birds, now that’s a good movie #aa08 #
- geez, haven’t half of the winners already tonight been foreign films? It sure feels like it #aa08 #
- Disney absolutely OWNS the Academy Awards #aa08 #
- @vergil66 I used Blockbuster online for a while, b/c of the in-store tradeins, but really just like Netflix better overall. #
- @annier only because it’s harder to get access around here to those films #
- Once won! It is such a good song, I’m going to have to see the film. #
- @chrisbrogan you didn’t even need TV tonight, just follow or track #aa08, over 600 tweets by my count so far. #
- @chrisbrogan At least as far as the OSCARS are concerned… #
- @vergil66 yeah, it was fine for a while, but Netflix is just too hard to beat, and BB cracks down on the limits, etc unfortunately. #
- I had kinda forgotten about the Kite Runner #aa08 #
- Go US Troops, glad you’re a part of the OSCARS tonight #aa08 #
- I’m kinda glad Sicko didn’t win, I just don’t like Michael Moore. #aa08 #
- @annier what are your picks for True/False this weekend? #
- @tweet140 just started harassing my DM box with such things as my average-77 is too low to be considered for a Twoosh award. I’ll show them! #
- @geoffliving ha! I just Followed @tweet140 this afternoon, not all that impressed other than the API work. #
- why the Flinstones dress? #aa08 #
- I’ve gotten over 800 txt messages tonight by Tracking #aa08 and "Academy Awards" … amazing the participation going on this evening! #
- I’d like to thank Twitter for handling the heavy load, and not crashing once, we may have hit a milestone today. #aa08 I applaud you. #
- It’s over, have a good evening everyone, and thanks for taking me past the 2,900 Tweet mark this evening. You’ve been great! #aa08 #
- @mufan96 you’ll love how easy to use it is. #
- Dang, a street 3 blocks away from me had over 60 police calls in the last year… mostly drug related crimes. I had no idea! #
- Goodnight Twitterville #
- Checking out Las Vegas hotels, any suggestions? I’ll be there for NAB in April and booking now. #
- @acafourek thanks, I’ll take a look those. #
- ha! how back woods am I, I just spray painted my mailbox black and the flag Red, the paint had been peeling and whatnot for a couple years. #
- @acomputerpro congrats on the save!
# - @rodrigoMX lets hope that’s where it stays #
- @acomputerpro as long as you youtube your recitals, we’ll be happy #
- Working on my article that’s going to be posted to Adobe.com re: my AIR experiences. #
Local TV News Online
January 23, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
I worked at KOMU-TV8 in Columbia, Missouri for 3 years. All of that time I have been involved in content, design, development, editing, and producing for KOMU.com. I started as a web editor writing and producing content to go into a new content manager that the station had licensed (Avid Active Content Manager). From there I build up quite a list of stories that I worked on, over 1,400 before leaving to concentrate on social media and online community building.
In addition to the daily editing and producing work, I periodically managed teams of reporters and field producers to ensure that online and new media needs were being met in the field. My management and producing skills allowed KOMU.com to see a lot of growth and new online features including slideshows, behind the scenes video, raw interview footage, and the beginnings of an online community building effort.
Here are some examples of stories and web packages that I worked on at KOMU.com:
In addition to working for KOMU News, I also have had a summer internship with FOX 4, WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. While with WDAF I,
- Researched, developed, and launched a Kansas City Pets micro site
- Implemented and wrote a Before You Go daily email update
- And worked breaking news like the Kelsey Smith Murder case, all while moderating blogs, discussion boards, and chatrooms.
My sound news judgement has allowed me to take on leadership, and team cooperative roles in television newsrooms. Through my creative and entrepreneurial drive I’m able to take stories to a higher and more interactive level for online and on-air viewers.
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-11-29
November 29, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Want to know why the writer’s are striking? Watch this video: http://urltea.com/20th?yt #
- @chrisbrogan yes I think you are a part of the community #
- Getting logins created for another test video conference today between the US, Moscow, and Buenos Aires, the others will join next week #
- For my first meeting of the day the other party hasn’t shown up yet. #
- Testing our connection from Columbia, Missouri to our colleagues in Moscow and Buenos Aires, it’s working so far #
- Yay for ABC and agreeing to a new writers contract for the news peeps! #
- Do you have a stance on the writer’s strike? #
- I think more countries are going to join our video conference next Tuesday on international election issues, very exciting #
- Rather lethargic day, I’m getting quite a bit done (it’s never enough of course, but still) though. #
- Time for some Politics and War lecture, sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes not. #
- I wore a hat today, but I’m not sure why, theories? #
- Back home tying up some loose ends from the day #
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-09-17
September 17, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Watching AnchorMan on ABC | The Most Glorious Movie! #
- Lifecasting and watching Lifecasting #
- Heading to bed, working at the ADA office in the morning #
- Leaving in 20 minutes for work #
- Working on my portfolio in Convergence Capstone #
- Having a chicken sammy 4 lunch! #
- Writing up some reports, ugh! #
- Reading up on (mt) Media Temple | thinking about switching hosts #
- Grilling some Salmon for dinner, then more reports! #
- @ijustine now we know where you get it from! (or did he get it from you!?) #
Male Teachers.. dun dun dun
October 31, 2005 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
It’s halloween and thank goodness there isn’t a centerpiece Halloween story, as cheesy as they are, it is kind of nice to see one every now and then. Back in Kansas City Larry Moore on the ABC affiliate every year does a Halloween special where he tells ghost stories about local landmarks and buildings. It sounds bad, but people really do look forward to it and have come to expect it. Much like watching Charlie Brown movies around Halloween and Christmas.
Wanted: Male teachers is a decent story, http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=16819 and the reporter has done a nice job with it. I actually saw this story come down the AP wire last Friday night so it is a good example of some weekend reporting. sourcing was decent, nothing special but it brings to light several issuesthat perhaps people overlook when talking about male teachers.
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