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6:57 pm
July 21, 2009 |
Chris Ullyott
| | Fullerton, CA | | | Member | posts 66 |
| | What are your ideas on sharing staff bios or contact information? I personally would like the author's photo next to the story with a link—not to all stories written by them—but to a little biography page about them. From that page, you'd be able to go to all stories that are written by them. A privacy issue we're thinking about is if writers should have their email addresses on the site next to their staff bios and stories. Question: If an email address is listed on a relatively high-traffic website, can't it potentially be pulled by robots for spammers? Thanks! | |
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11:24 pm
July 21, 2009 |
William P. Davis
| | Veazie, Maine | | | Admin | posts 65 |
| | If the e-mail address is listed, it will definitely be pulled by bots. It is nearly impossible to prevent it nowadays. Therefore, I would never list personal addresses of reporters. I would suggest getting Google Apps for your newspaper and listing those addresses, since GMail has some of the best spam protection I've ever seen, and it's free. Another option is to have a staff page and say something at the top that says "All addresses are firstname.lastname@example.com" or the like. Listing it as firstname.lastname [at] example.com also helps protect against bots. I personally don't really see the point in listing everyone's e-mail addresses. We have a staff page that lists the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all the editors and ass. editors. If someone has news, they can talk to one of the editors. | |
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4:52 am
July 22, 2009 |
tpillow
| | Gainesville, FL (UF) | | | Member | posts 4 |
| | Hey everyone, this is my first post. Name's Travis Pillow, and I'm with the Fine Print at the University of Florida. I'm looking into a system that sort of combines the two apporaches – a staff page and author info available from each article page. We want to give a "face" to our staff, which is something the campus daily does not currently do here at UF (we're the "alternative" monthly). Author photos next to each article seems a bit creepy though. The way Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd stare at me, big and in color, when I read the NYT is a bit unnerving. I think I want to make each author's name a link to a page with their bio and all their posts and articles. We're having our authors sign up for Google like William mentioned. This allows us to collaborate via Google Docs and Google Groups, and gives everyone an e-mail address with first-rate spam protection. I post my existing Gmail address all over our current site (we haven't completed the switch to CoPress yet). I get tons of spam, but Gmail filters it flawlessly. |
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10:15 am
July 23, 2009 |
Andrew Spittle
| | Walla Walla, WA | | | Moderator | posts 49 |
| | I think displaying a headshot of the author and a short bio on an article page is a nice touch. What I'm doing at the Whitman Pioneer is creating a space for this immediately below the article and above the comments. This way the author information isn't distracting to those wanting to read the article but is also easy to find for those interested. The section will have a small headshot, bio, and a link to their archive page which will have a larger image and a full bio. | Andrew – andrew@copress.org – CoPress Hosting Director – http://www.andrewspittle.net |
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7:36 pm
July 23, 2009 |
Daniel Bachhuber
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| | I think I'll ditto a few others on the post. First and foremost, go with Google Apps so that you can list email addresses anywhere you'd like and not have to worry too much about spam. The Standard Edition offers everything you might need and, for us at CoPress, has been really reliable. I dig the idea of including a photo and bio on an article page, but worry it might be too much. What I would probably do is link the authors name to a profile page with their full name, bio, email address, possibly phone number and/or IM, and a list of all their posts. This can then even serve as a landing page for people who are interested about what the author is producing (i.e. their parents  ). Shameless plug: The Publish2 WordPress plugin I'm working on will eventually have the ability to pull in the author's link journalism if you wanted to run that in the sidebar or something. Although I haven't done it, you should be able to then generate a staff page that includes all of the authors, their email addresses, photos, and bios, and then link to their profile pages with the list of their writing as well. | |
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