Today's Freeman - both in print and online - is a special edition emphasizing the new Web and social media tools available for news-gathering and reporting, with special emphasis on reader involvement. It is part of a Journal Register Company initiative, dubbed the Ben Franklin Project, by which we have declared, on the Fourth of July, the company’s growing and determined independence from the traditional tools and methods of print journalism.
The special report is available in our printed edition and at http://kin.jrcbenfranklin.com.
Staff writer Paul Kirby takes a look at crime trends in the city of Kingston, both statistically, which tells us crime is on the decline, and how it is perceived by residents, who don’t necessarily agree.
Kirby also reports on the future of the King’s Inn motel property in the Midtown section of the city of Kingston. The motel is now owned by the city, which is considering uses for the property and is soliciting public input.
The Life Department has sought and received reader opinion on the best camping spots in the Mid-Hudson Valley. The chosen sites were Colgate Lake in Greene County and the Saugerties/Woodstock KOA.
I veered from my regular column published weekly on Wednesdays to offer a bonus one based on readers’ accounts of their worst camping experiences.
The features department will also publish a special calendar incorporating Facebook events from readers, a compendium of best tweets. And Freeman intern Ethan Barnett profiles the band Our Only Reason, after a poll that gathered more than 500 votes and a crazy video.
The Sports Department will highlight the team spirit of Yankees and Mets fans in the Hudson Valley, Web posting photos and videos of fans and selecting a top fan.
Sports localized World Cup soccer mania with a webchat with New Paltz High School boys soccer coach Stuart Robinson, the current SUNY New Paltz athletic director and former men's soccer coach.
Showing posts with label Ben Franklin Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Franklin Project. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
One lucky band gets it
Freeman intern and local scene music guru Ethan Barnett is going to feature a young local band on July 4.
Here's the catch. You're going to vote on the band that he will cover. Barnett has compiled a list of up-and-coming groups, featuring indie music, hip-hop, punk, rock and hard rock.
Voting ends June 26. Make your vote count.
If you are unfamiliar with them, check out their MySpace profiles, listen to their music - and vote.
* Battle Ave. Tea Club
Here's the catch. You're going to vote on the band that he will cover. Barnett has compiled a list of up-and-coming groups, featuring indie music, hip-hop, punk, rock and hard rock.
Voting ends June 26. Make your vote count.
If you are unfamiliar with them, check out their MySpace profiles, listen to their music - and vote.
* Battle Ave. Tea Club
* Set Sail
* Dusk
* Problems
Monday, June 14, 2010
Pulse of the Valley
* John-Antony Bruno, CEO of the Ulster County chapter of the American Red Cross, reveals that he was a Freeman carrier.
* Craig Shelley, Scout Executive and CEO of the Jersey Shore Council of the Boy Scouts of America, thinks that revealing that you were a Freeman carrier is not so cool:
* Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition.
Freeman publisher Ira Fusfeld does not care for vuvuzelas.
* Photographer Jen Kiaba begins an innovative "expe ..."
* Area techie and jazz singer Nancy Tierney is not having lunch with the famous CEO of Black Entertainment Television Bob Johnson.
* The Freeman needs your help with its version of parent company Journal Register Company's Ben Franklin Project.
Part of that project, by the way, involves highlighting your tweets. Do you have or know of one? Send them! Post them at http://bit.ly/HVtweets or send me a tweet using #HVTweet.
Stopped by the @DailyFreeman today and was pleased to see the Paper Carrier of the Year plaque with my name on it (1993) was still up.
jabruno101
* Craig Shelley, Scout Executive and CEO of the Jersey Shore Council of the Boy Scouts of America, thinks that revealing that you were a Freeman carrier is not so cool:
Dork RT: @jabruno101 Stopped by the @DailyFreeman today to see the Paper Carrier of the Year plaque with my name on it (1993) was still up
craigshelley
* Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition. Kingston Alderman Tom Hoffay hates repetition.
Wondering why I keep getting tweeted the same news stories over & over each morning?
tomhoffay
Freeman publisher Ira Fusfeld does not care for vuvuzelas.
Here's the thing: Were it not for the constant buzzing of horns in the background, the #WorldCup telecasts would be putting me to sleep.
IraFusfeld
* Photographer Jen Kiaba begins an innovative "expe ..."
Hey, new blog post! So the brilliant Crissy from the Indie Biz Chicks had an inspiring idea: to do a blogging expe... http://bit.ly/cOZ0qO
Jenkiaba
* Area techie and jazz singer Nancy Tierney is not having lunch with the famous CEO of Black Entertainment Television Bob Johnson.
Having lunch with the famous Bob Johnson. http://tweetphoto.com/27254052
nancytierney
* The Freeman needs your help with its version of parent company Journal Register Company's Ben Franklin Project.
We want your help with our stories for our very special July 4 edition! Let's do it! http://bit.ly/FreemanBFPbudget #JRC #JRCBenFranklin
DailyFreeman
Part of that project, by the way, involves highlighting your tweets. Do you have or know of one? Send them! Post them at http://bit.ly/HVtweets or send me a tweet using #HVTweet.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Pulse of the Valley - YOUR EDITION
Attention Tweetards, I mean, Tweeter people whom I like very much:
You might have noticed that I periodically highlight Twitter updates from around the Hudson Valley. But you might have also noticed that I maybe haven't highlighted a particular Tweet that you might have liked.
Well, here's a crazy idea.: Do you know or have a Tweet you like to highlight from around the area? Let me know.
Let's get the pulse of the Hudson Valley Twitterverse together.
We're printing this, by the way, with your sexy Avatars, so be nice.
Or not. Your call.
Let's do this!
If you're on Twitter, use #HVtweet.
You might have noticed that I periodically highlight Twitter updates from around the Hudson Valley. But you might have also noticed that I maybe haven't highlighted a particular Tweet that you might have liked.
Well, here's a crazy idea.: Do you know or have a Tweet you like to highlight from around the area? Let me know.
Let's get the pulse of the Hudson Valley Twitterverse together.
We're printing this, by the way, with your sexy Avatars, so be nice.
Or not. Your call.
Let's do this!
If you're on Twitter, use #HVtweet.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The hair is up for grabs
As part of the Daily Freeman's Ben Franklin Project, I'm leaving the fate of my hair up to you. Voting ends June 18.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Introducing the Daily Freeman's Ben Franklin Project
Wait. What?
What is the Ben Franklin Project, you say, before noticing that you're speaking to yourself and are freaking out all the people around you?
It’s an opportunity for the Daily Freeman to rethink the entire process of putting out our daily online and print editions.
No, really. We're actually doing this. And we are opening our doors. Virtually, of course, so stay away from my cubicle.*
We are going to use free, open-source tools and social media - like the Twitters or whatever it's called - to empower, involve and engage you more than ever before.
Do you have a story idea? Tell us about it. Do you think the Life Editor needs a haircut? Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
The goal of the Ben Franklin Project is to enable readers to participate in how our print and online editions come together. So starting now, we want you to let us know how to better serve you, with great ideas like, "Don't let the Life Editor announce the Ben Franklin Project!"
Here are but some of the ideas we're working on:
* We are going to publish a calendar of events using only your Facebook invitations. So "Like" the Daily Freeman and Preview (and me!) and invite us!
* We are going to find out the best camping spots in the mid-Hudson Valley. How? You're going to tell us. And once we have enough candidates, you'll vote on your favorites. I will then send our reporters with a broken flashlight, wearing high heels and wrapped with meat - at midnight - to check out the sites (we're still working on the reporting details, so that might change).
* We also want you to share with us your camping pictures via Flickr. And you'll get to vote on them.
* I'm personally compiling your craziest camping stories for an upcoming - and extra -column to be published on July 4, the day we're declaring our independence from the old newsroom models of thinking and publishing (I'm told there's another independence something that day, but who knows?).
* We're going to do some live chats with our featured bloggers, and want you to be part of it by bringing your questions and comments, live.
* And yes, why not? I might even cut my hair. I'll put it up for vote. And you'll decide. I then I'll blame a hanging chad or something.
What else? You tell me.
And what about the News and Sports departments? Just tell them!
Because those people don't listen to me.
* Actually, our doors are open. So you can actually pay me a visit.
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