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By: HOW-TO: Write Effectively for Twitter & the Social Web « Hospitalwebmaster's Blog

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:01:30 +0000

[...] From Print to Web: Tips for the Transitioning Writer From Web Worker Daily: The web, and its readers, demands a different kind of writing, delivered in a different way. Here are some tips and resources to help get a handle on just what kind of change is required. [...]

By: HOW-TO: Write Effectively for Twitter & the Social Web

HOW-TO: Write Effectively for Twitter & the Social Web — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:16:27 +0000

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tsabeeka » Nyomtatottból az online-ba (I. rész) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:55:28 +0000

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By: King’s Corner » Blog Archive » Moving from print to Web

King’s Corner » Blog Archive » Moving from print to Web — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:30:44 +0000

[...] Journalism education is supposed to be one of the hot areas for the Information Age–not because traditional journalism jobs are a growth area, but because the skills are supposed to be useful in any number of professions. Still, the skills are not directly transferable without adaptation. WebWorkerDaily offers a couple of quick tips for writers seeking to make the transition from print to Web writing. [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Great premise for a post, and very helpful.
Just FYI, there’s now a job board specifically for unemployed newspaper professionals: http://www.newsandtech.com/

There’s also an interesting blog post by Marci Alboher (former New York Times careers blogger) about the future for journalists: http://heymarci.com/2009/02/26/unbaked-thoughts-on-the-future-of-journalism/

Her post highlights the idea that journalists need to acquire the skills to become free agents/entrepreneurs.

By: Anelly

Anelly — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:35:45 +0000

I believe that there are some differences between print and web writers. I saw the differences first when i started myself to work like a web writer and i have a friend who’s working as a print writer.

By: Rob Oakes

Rob Oakes — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:55:50 +0000

Thanks for the article, and for the follow-up comments. I've found them to be very interesting. In the past few months, I've been experimenting with a pretty simple blog, which has opened up my eyes to how challenging it can be to build an audience of any sort. Might there be any hope of additional posts that document your switch from print to the web?

By: Iain Broome

Iain Broome — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:17:02 +0000

Many thankyoos for the nod towards Write for Your Life. I do think there’s a tendency for writers to bury their head in the sand and assume that people, their audience, will come to them. In this day and age, we are our own marketeers. As writers, we have to take a lot of the responsibility for getting our work ‘out there’. Especially in fiction and even more so poetry. Twitter can help us do that.

Anyway, thanks again. Hope my article was useful.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:08:44 +0000

Know how to distribute your posts. I had once a client (a sports publication) that did first both things, print and web, and the idea we had for him was that the magazine had this complementary feeling to it (both were free) so an article online lead you to more info in print.

When the print came down, it was only web for a while and he didn’t quite grasped the timing for his posts (it should be more regularly updated to keep the audience interested).

He also had a radio show for a while, which we wanted to get redistributed as podcasts. Whenever they talked about almost anything on the radio, you would clearly see spikes of interest in the website’s content.

Alas, this economic downturn made him switch interests away from this ideas.

Tips:

Drip your content, it’s better to have some posts daily or weekly than a lot of posts monthly.

Lists are king. Related content, a profile of your writer that has his/her latest post, a featured list to the side… Keep your audience interested on you.

Mind your ads. Nobody likes publicity shoved down our throats. So keep them there but keep them classy.

Let the user interact. Flash and cool animations doesn’t mean interaction. A website is truly interactive when the audience can do more than just click a link. Let them speak their minds. Not only comments but also contact forms and such. Hear them.

Speak frankly (and let your writers do the same). Remember that editorial page you had on your print edition? Nowadays it’s not uncommon to have a Blog inside your online publication.

Flex your creative muscles. Just because your current CMS solution doesn’t support creative content layouts, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek new ways to do it. Break out of tradition every once in a while.

Keep me posted. Offering RSS and Newsfeeds is good, but follow up segments and dispatching ideas through tweeter might get me hooked.

Good luck with the transition, keep your mind positive and good stuff is bound to happen!

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