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Link: O.C. remembers Steve Jobs Link: Think Different I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just gotten home from work and was walking my beagle. I got a text from my husband who asked if I knew. “Know what?” I asked. And then he told me that Steve Jobs had died. I still couldn’t believe the news. I read through all the text messages and push notifications and emails I’d received as news alerts. I was in disbelief. As our tech reporter worked up the main story, I worked on two Storifys as sidebars. The first one was on Orange County people reactingRead More →

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Link: Record crowds eat through the OC Fair Link: Storify wrap-up of #OCFair tweets In a regular story, wrapping up the last day of the Orange County Fair, I was able to use social media to add valuable information to my story. The first big help was in finding a person to talk to about this year’s fair. Rather than going to the fair and wandering around aimlessly looking for an interesting person, I looked up the OC Fair Foursquare mayor. I asked her via Twitter if I could interview her for my story and she agreed. She turned out to be a fair employee,Read More →

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Link: O.C. hiker dies in Cleveland National Forest During a weekend reporting shift we started seeing reports of an Orange County man who died while rappelling down a waterfall in the Cleveland National Forest. In the first step, I reported the basic information available from the San Diego Fire and Coroner departments. Very little information was available on a weekend, as many possible relatives of the hiker were not available and the Forest Service was not available. However, I was able to use social networking to find more information (and I don’t just mean Twitter and Facebook). I searched the web for information on theRead More →

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Link: @OCReggie welcomes ‘guest host’ Our social team at the Register wanted to make it apparent that we intended our main Twitter account to represent the community. As part of that, we welcomed community members to act as guest moderators of the account. We mentored each person and they chose relevant news from the Register’s website, found potential topics for the newsroom to cover and talked with the social community.Read More →