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“Man kan inte tala om att ‘bygga’ ett community, de måste odlas. Det kräver tid och en nära relation med medlemmarna.”

“TIPS: I think most of the time, most meetings should be held without chairs. People standing up think more quickly and get distracted less often. And the meetings don’t last as long.”

“Many Virginia Tech students spent the day trawling through pages set up by their friends to see if they were safe, or logging on to local news websites just to keep up with events.”

“Unfiltered immediacy is great. But /…/ It is raw material, and raw material from such an event is not only potentially incorrect /…/ but by nature fragmentary, often incomprehensible.”

“Finally, step back for a second. Play the video. And, imagine you have a son or daughter attending Virginia Tech, you can’t get ahold of them and you turn on CNN to find out some information and instead you come across that video.”

“We will still need journalists to help sort things out. /…/ We used to say that journalists write the first draft of history. Not so, not any longer. The people on the ground at these events write the first draft.”

“I think you really see the power of social networking in how Facebook lit up with messages from Virginia Tech students sharing information, checking in on each other, forming groups around the incident and beginning to mourn and grieve as well as to expr

“And so the key skills in a newsroom will not be to get reporters to the scene — that will come later, after the news happens — but to have antennae up to listen and find news reports as they happen, as people link to what’s happening.”

“But as it was breaking, a savvy reader would have gone to the darker corners of the Net to find the most relevant information.”

“Newsvine has sharing tools built into their business model. Not only can registered users upload already-published stories, but they can also share their own (with an interface better than many newsroom CMS). In fact, Killfile’s style of posting is nearl

“This isn’t going to happen overnight, because the ad community is still immersed in page views, but it will happen. That creates a significant opportunity for those who move down the non-page view path and create their own models to sell to advertisers

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