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By Bryan, on October 20th, 2008%
Slight Update: Here’s John Robinson’s original post announcing GoTriadU.
The Greensboro News & Record has launched GoTriadU as a potential information hub for the Greensboro area colleges. The effort bears a few similarities to BigLickU, the Roanoke Times’ ill-fated effort to tie together schools in the Blacksburg area (see our coverage here), with a couple of differences. The Greensboro effort isn’t quite so ambitious in its beginning stages, and they don’t seem to be competing with Facebook in the social networking arena.
I e-mailed editor John Robinson to ask about the initiative and he forwarded my e-mail to Kathy Lambeth, new ventures director for the N&R. Below the fold is her detailed response to my query.
Continue reading GoTriadU launches to tie schools together
By Bryan, on October 16th, 2008%
Innovation: Ten (small) things you can do right now to reinvent your newsroom
Chris O'Brien has some great tips for you to innovate your newsroom immediately.
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Working with Danny Sanchez in Orlando.
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"goTriadU"
The Greensboro News & Record is looking to build "a network among the students . . . → Read More: links for 2008-10-16
By Bryan, on July 22nd, 2008%
Last spring, readers may recall the huge coverage we gave to a push by the Roanoke Times to create a college social media site named BigLickU. You can see all of that coverage here.
Well, it appears that BigLickU has been shuttered. If you go to BigLickU.com, you are redirected to the Roanoke.com main web page. Even . . . → Read More: BigLickU no more?
By Bryan, on August 21st, 2007%
Being out of the loop means I’ve missed the launch of two college-targeted social networking sites by major newspaper organizations.
Rachele Kanigel mentioned the two sites in the Student Newspaper Survival weblog: Another invasion on college media turf. Now there are three of these experiments, and BigLickU looks like a grandparent, age-wise, since it’s been up and . . . → Read More: It had to happen: two more sites aimed at college crowd
By Bryan, on August 18th, 2007%
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Ray Reed of the Roanoke Times about the company’s BigLickU college social networking site. Regular readers know we’ve covered the site extensively in the past – see all coverage here. Reed’s story marks the official “launch” of the site with a huge marketing push by the Times . . . → Read More: Roanoke.com’s BigLickU push
By Bryan, on June 4th, 2007%
Ryan Sholin offers a great list of things journalists need to understand about the future. See here: 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get. I’d suggest you read the whole thing, and then come back.
As is my wont, I’m going to add a few college media-specific comments to Ryan’s list – . . . → Read More: Things you need to understand about the future of college media
By Ralph Braseth, on May 25th, 2007%
The Business Beat
This post was written 40 days ago about an hour before the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
I’m attending the Newspaper Association Managers’ advertising national conference in Tunica, Miss., today as a speaker and attendee.
Advertising professionals from 30 states are in attendance for professional development and to learn about utilizing the power of the Web . . . → Read More: BigLickU on national ad radar, coming to a town near you?
By Bryan, on April 18th, 2007%
Once again, I’ll post items that might be of interest to college media outlets as I see them. If your school media localized the story, send me an e-mail at scmurley -at- gmail.com, and i’ll drop it in the list.
CT’s list of confirmed dead.
InsideVandy stories here and here (thanks to Paige Clancy)
Daily Arbiter stories here and . . . → Read More: Va. Tech day 3 updates
By Bryan, on March 5th, 2007%
Via Bob Carey, blogging from the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference on Feb. 28, 2007 – Brian Storm: News “papers” Becoming Media Companies:
Brian Storm, founder of MediasStorm, told the opening session of the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference that newspapers are no longer strictly news “papers,†but are media companies documenting their local communities.
Bryan Murley, January 30, 2007:
Newspapers (news media . . . → Read More: Storm: newspapers, no; media companies, yes
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