Joe on March 8th, 2010

As Sean Blanda points out in his blog post, community (small) newspapers maybe left out of coming the e-reader (iPad) revolution. I would like to lead a team of news innovators in creating a iPad strategy for community newspapers.

The follo…

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Joe on March 4th, 2010

Traditional wisdom and countless studies show that FREQUENCY is a key measure of advertising effectiveness. Specifically regarding how many times an individual must be shown an advertisement before they are compelled into action. Fig…

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Joe on November 19th, 2009

Lets say news.com has 200,000 monthly pageviews. We don’t sell online advertising by the number of uniques, so uniques don’t matter in this example. News.com is able to change an aggressive $12 CPM on the impressions, an…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

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GiveTrack.org

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Display updates about humanitarian aid in real time. Pushing back apathy by engaging people in a visual representation of positive change brought by charitable giving.

Aid wor…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

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Community Barometer

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Everyblock shows us recent building permits, but does not show us trends. Are building permits down from last year? By how much?

Perhaps we have a database of section 8 housi…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

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Reverse Publishing Workflow for Wordpress

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More than a Wordpress plugin, this “wizard” style systems guides the user through the processes of reverse publishing. Web-first has…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

Perhaps there is a more strategic reason newspapers have not implemented the Everyblock software yet. What exactly would a newspaper implementation of everyblock look like?

⁃ A stand alone site, that the newspaper links to?
⁃ A separ…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

The code behind Everyblock.com (as of June 09) was released under an open source license, but as of today I’m not aware of a single website using the technology. Newspaper in particular I would expect to have a keen interest in this sof…

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Joe on November 12th, 2009

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newspaper-subscriptions.org

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Newspaper Subscription Network (NSN) allows community newspapers to sell website subscriptions while providing additional value to readers. Value to reade…

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Joe on November 11th, 2009

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Class-APP

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iPhone / Droid application providing realtime classified ad submission to newspaper websites.

Users can snap a photo, enter a description, price and tap UPLOAD. Vastly lowers the b…

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