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Recommended links for the weekend: The New York Times is leveraging the communication skills of their journalists in an entirely new way: by having them teach. It’s a first-time experiment for the publication that hints at the importance of area expertise for the 21st century journalist. (tks Brian Manzullo) Need ideas for reinventing your J [...]

‘Tis the season for college media makeovers, and this week we’ll be discussing the soon-to-launch redesign of the Minnesota Daily — and getting a sneak peek. Last fall they switched to Drupal for their content management system and now they’re looking to build on that with a fresh coat of paint. Listen live as Online Manager Son [...]

Now that we’ve shared a few our our ideas, let’s see yours! With the above video in mind, put the information into action. In the upcoming weeks: Week 1: Plan a brainstorming session. It can be in your newsroom or on a camping trip or at an editor’s house. Make it fun and have lots [...]

With a new school year kicking off across the United States, things are busy in the university scene as well as here at CoPress. Along with our own new site, many new clients are rolling out their new and improved Web presences. Of the several that went live recently, we asked a few of the [...]

I used to be skeptical of using Facebook as a means of marketing and branding. The problem was that I never had enough fans to really make my Facebook page functional. A Fan Box widget fixed that problem. And it can do the same for you. What is a Fan Box? I first saw a [...]

Greg, Vanessa and Joey talk with Sara Gregory, Managing Editor for Online at the Daily Tar Heel, who helped to launch a new site on Drupal on Saturday and Will Davis, Editor in Chief at The Maine Campus, who brings light to their switch at the beginning of the summer from College Publisher to WordPress [...]

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Recommended links for the weekend: It’s the season of new sites. On Wednesday, we helped Brian Manzullo take the new CM Life live. He has since written a thoughtful post to the community, as well as a more detailed post about the new features of the site. Late last night, a new, more Drupally Daily [...]

We hear it over and over again – “Innovate, innovate, innovate!” But what does that really mean in the context of newspapers, and why is it necessary? Let’s start by stepping back to see where newspapers went wrong. Like we’ve mentioned before, the newspaper industry is a lot like the railroad industry, which essentially stopped [...]

It’s fairly common knowledge that our daily activities online (and off) are tracked, analyzed, and sold — to an extent that would make most of us blush if we really knew all the details. But as Wired.com reported last week, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have found a particular nasty practice by Flash [...]

We announced the first iteration of our turnkey hosting solution last December, and launched our first client by the end of January 2009. Now we’re announcing round two. We call it Managed Hosting. The first version of our strategic development roadmap [PDF], a fancy name for a document with big ideas for the future of [...]