Tag Archives: community building

What makes an online community?

By Michael Becker | Published: January 19, 2010
Dan asked a good question this morning. It stemmed from Jodi’s story about the woman who lost her money-filled purse in a Bozeman parking lot and had it returned by a Good Samaritan. Dan noted that while our Web copy had only one comment, the pared-down AP version on the Billings Gazette’s Web site had [...]
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Fact-checking culture

By Michael Becker | Published: October 9, 2009
Craig Silverman at the Columbia Journalism Review writes that American’s newest pastime is “fact checking,” an obsession with (sometimes) objectivity and transparency fed by the easily availability of information on the Web. Silverman points out that the term “fact checking” it getting thrown around so often that it’s in danger of losing its meaning. In [...]
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Dabblers go home; journalists need to be social media leaders

By Michael Becker | Published: October 7, 2009
Gina Chen, who I admire for her clear-headed and sensible writing about how journalists can use social media technologies, reminds us today that, for many modern readers, if the news is important enough, it will find them. It’s on journalists and news organizations to make it possible for the news to find its audience, which [...]
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