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Clip: Steve Jobs’ death

2011-10-05
By: Sonya Quick
On: October 5, 2011
In: Clips, Social, UGC

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 →

New ShareOC.com user content website

2011-06-13
By: Sonya Quick
On: June 13, 2011
In: Projects, UGC

Link: ShareOC.com In the next phase of building a user-generated content environment, I launched a new version of ShareOC.com last week. ShareOC is built using Posterous and I feed content to the site manually by email and directly uploading on the web (for Flickr posts). So far, the website has 78 posts for 2011 shared by more than 20 people on topics including sunrises, Praying Mantis, flooding and Jacaranda trees. The Posterous temporary solution gives us a free web tool for aggregating all user submissions and it makes it easy for staff to see and download content for use in our products.Read More →

ShareOC concept explained

2011-03-16
By: Sonya Quick
On: March 16, 2011
In: Mobile, Projects, Social, Tablets, UGC, Web

Here’s a bit more on the ShareOC project that I have brewing off to the side of my normal work. The diagram shows how the database is the main component (rather than a website) – with connections in web, tablets, mobile (smartphones), social networks and in print.Read More →

Clip: Tweeting the tale of a very crowded Disneyland

2010-12-28
By: Sonya Quick
On: December 28, 2010
In: Blogging, Breaking, Social, UGC

Link: Tweets tell the tale of teeming Disney theme parks When the Disneyland Resort reached capacity I joined in to help out our reporting staff by collecting interesting tweets about the crowded park. The reporting was fun to do, showed the value of reporting via social networks and brought our audience’s content into our report.Read More →

Clip: User-shared double rainbow photos

2010-12-23
By: Sonya Quick
On: December 23, 2010
In: Clips, Social, UGC

Link: Double rainbow spotted in Irvine During the holiday time I found that several readers were sharing photos of a double rainbow to our shareoc inbox and on Twitter and Flickr. Our science reporter was out for the holiday, so I filled in and posted reader photos and comments about the double rainbow, along with links to previous rainbow stories. Two interesting notes. One, once we started a slide show of rainbow photos other readers were quick to submit their own photos. Two, the readers’ whose photos were used are now frequently sending in breaking news tips and interesting photos.Read More →

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Hey there, thanks for visiting! I am digital editor at Voice of OC. I am also a mom to two, a wife, a Long Beach resident, a fan of hoppy beers, a vegetarian and an amateur baker who enjoys perfecting macarons.

I have been a journalist all my life, starting with creating my own newspaper for back to school and open house nights in the fourth grade. I continued writing and editing news through middle school, high school and college. My career includes working at Voice of OC, Chapman University and the Orange County Register.

I am a passionate supporter of providing valuable news and information while building strong online, mobile and social communities around content. I thrive when challenged and I care deeply about producing quality work in a fast-paced environment.

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