Hurricane Ike Media Review: Judging Criteria
September 15, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be writing reviews of the local and national media’s response to Hurricane Ike this past weekend.
What I’ll focus on:
- Update frequency
- Web site usability
- User generated content solicitation and usage
- Multi-media coverage
- Distribution of content outside the “walled garden”
- Innovation, or lack thereof in coverage
Where I’m coming from:
- I have family who lives in a Houston suburb
- I am familiar with the Houston television market having visited several of the TV studios and spoken with employees there in the past
- I live in the Washington DC area, so do not have access to live television or radio coverage from Houston unless streaming media is available
- I work in social media for a major media company
- My background is in journalism, information distribution, and online community building
If you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the comments section of any post. Notice someone doing something that I’ve missed? Let me know and I’ll be sure to update posts or continue the series as necessary.
Each of the media outlets I’ll profile and review this week are major operations with large audiences. I don’t want to be too critical of efforts or insinuate that there is any one “right” way of doing things online because there isn’t. What I’m measuring them against are what I consider to be the current “best practices” in online media distribution.
Also understand that each of these companies have very different technical and infrastructure components which I’ll address where possible.
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This post is part of the Hurrricane Ike Media Review series by Jonathan Coffman. I welcome your comments below.
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-01
February 1, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Yup, STILL working on Contributr, it’s so close, but we just can’t stop! #
- Well, It’s now or never, check out what I’ve been working on since September http://www.contributr.net #
- Wow, the commenters at the new OFFICIAL TSA blog are much more interesting than the bloggers: http://www.tsa.gov/blog #
- Take THAT snow! I’m the first one on the block to have a clean driveway #
- Alright, Contributr.net is Live, I’ll be sending it to Adobe for judging in a couple hours! #
What an Amazing Ride
February 1, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
It’s official everyone Team Contributr’s AIR application has been received by Adobe for a technical review before the big judging on Monday. It’s my understanding that an AIR Specialist at Adobe will be doing a technical review report for the judging committee.Team Contributr will be presenting our final application for judging Monday, February 4th, 2008 from 5:30-6:00pm. We’ve only got 30 minutes to show them this utterly amazing and revolutionary application. I personally have given at least 2 other presentations relating to Contributr throughout the development cycle, none of which I was able to give a true working demo, so this will be a really neat experience.Also, in the last two weeks of February the Reynolds Journalism Institute will be having a Viewer’s Choice Awards of the 3 finalists from the competition. We’ll be sure to post a link to the voting site as soon as we have it. And we would really appreciate your support!
Welcome to Contributr!
January 31, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
The Development team is putting the finishing touches on the Contributr AIR application and web interfaces as we prepare to submit the final code to Adobe Inc. for a technical review before presenting our little application to the Judging panel Monday evening.Wish Us Luck!
The Final Stretch!
January 28, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
What a surprise we got today, we finally heard from the Reynolds Institute that we have to submit the final AIR application to Adobe for a technical review by Friday at 5pm CST. I see some late nights ahead of us this week!We’ve got a great little application with a TON of potential, let’s just hope everyone else loves it as much as we do 
There seems to be a great demand for such an application, all of the news type people I’ve told about Contributr just think it’s a great idea, now we all know it’s a great idea, but let’s hope our implementation makes people just as happy!Have a great week, and I’ll post as we progress through the final days before the judging of our application.
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