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.
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.
As part of my social work, I am working on reinvigorating the OCRegister’s main Twitter account @OCReggie.
One change is I added two new people to the account’s management crew (we now have eight). This allows for one permanent sub and for one person to be the on-call night and weekends person (alerts are sent by our newsroom editors, but this person jumps in to listen and help people during big off-hours events). The two new people lets us have more people available during disaster times (such as wildfires) and to embed social into the newsroom’s core, rather than just being managed by geeks (like myself) in the corner.
I also sent out my goals and thinking behind the account and I’m following up with staff to make sure the account is less formulaic and more engaging.
Why does OCReggie exist?
I’d like for us to do more of the following:
OCRegister mobile traffic share of Register traffic surpassed 10 percent in November 2010.
I compile the information for monthly mobile reports sent to newsroom staff, as well as marketing and advertising employees. The mobile share shows the shift of some segment of our audiences (or attraction of new audiences) to mobile products.
2010 mobile share of all digital traffic:
2.74% January
3.67% February
4.08% March
3.45% April
4.50% May
7.64% June
8.27% July
9.22% August
7.59% September
9.55% October
10.49% November
Link: OCRegister Facebook pages
I worked with the Register’s key web and mobile designer, Rick Ho, to create unified branding across the Register’s social media accounts. The first step is the Register’s Facebook pages.
I worked closely with the marketing and advertising departments, OCRegister social media users and our social audiences to use the same branding base for our mobile products and social accounts.