Comments on: Essential skill: The art of rustling up readers

By: Two Lessons I Need to Reflect and Internalize « DigiDave – Journalism is a Process, Not a Product

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:37:11 +0000

[...] is somewhat related to, although tangentially, with a conversation brought up by Scott Rosenberg and pointed out to through the IdeaLab blog about getting noticed in web journalism – the [...]

By: Technolo-j » Blog Archive » Your byline becomes a valuable commodity online

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:57:43 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg, formerly of Salon, added on his blog that it’s a skill most of us who work in print or broadcast are “occupationally blind to” because we are used to the media outlets we work for serving up audiences for us. “They cannot see this because, all their working lives, the business of gathering their audience has been handled for them … This privilege disintegrates out on the Web once you leave the protective umbrella and traffic supply of a media company.” [...]

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By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:44:33 +0000

Agree completely – so much so that I devoted a fifth of my ‘model for a 21st century newsroom’ to it: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/01/02/a-model-for-the-21st-century-newsroom-pt4-pushpullpass-distribution/

As news becomes a conversation, we increasingly get news from people we want to talk with. If we have some sort of relationship with them, it’s more likely we’ll talk to them.

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:22:46 +0000

scott said:
> Collaborative filtering is a fine thing,
> but I don’t see it replacing all other forms
> of information hunting and gathering.
> And I don’t see “self-promotion” disappearing or
> becoming simply the last refuge of the desperate.

i say your vision is flawed. :+)

check back in 5 years, and you’ll see the trend…
check in 10, and see how utterly wrong you were.

-bowerbird

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Clearly not self-promotional enough

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:51:38 +0000

[...] for Online Journos.” Hmmm, that sounds similar to that post I wrote a few days ago about rustling up readers. Then I read the text under the headline and realized, wait a minute, this is that post I wrote a [...]

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Effective and efficient marketing x.x - resistance is futile — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:39:30 +0000

[...] posts from Aaron Brazell (Technosailor) and Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard on the topics both touched upon the dilemma of finding an audience for your work and making your [...]

By: opit

opit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:49:49 +0000

And then the trackback robots kick in and a fellow wonders how accurate feed counts are anyway.
Blog for your own pleasure : unless a steady stream is forthcoming people don’t seem to track you. RSS fixes that, of course, but not everybody is a blogger lost in a technology explosion.

By: SEO, SEM, SMM - audience building and findability are important, unfortunately | Broadcasting Brain

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:34:08 +0000

[...] posts from Aaron Brazell (Technosailor) and Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard on the topics both touched upon the dilemma of finding an audience for your work and making your [...]

By: Links for 8-18-08 | The Jeff Beckham Weblog

Links for 8-18-08 | The Jeff Beckham Weblog — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:14:55 +0000

[...] to the journalism side for Scott Rosenberg’s essay on rustling up readers and Jeff Jarvis’ thoughts on how editors should adapt to changes in their [...]