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Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Photos'

Just catching up on this one. I am with David on the general refusal to give photos to advocacy groups, but that policy has to be uniform. We do sometimes grant permission to non-advocacy nonprofits - oh, say, we take a photo of the Girl Scouts, and…

July 14

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Big Times for Little Corona del Mar Today'

PS: Gray hair enhances credibility ;)

June 20

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Big Times for Little Corona del Mar Today'

Glad to hear about the cash flow, because in the end, without it, none of us can do this. Funny to hear someone is launching a newspaper there. Are the demographics really, really, really, really, really old? I can't imagine why that would make sens…

June 20

Tracy Record commented on Jane Stevens's blog post 'Finally, WellCommons is off and running'

Interesting. Nice way to make health/wellness seem less "medical"/"expert" aka "daunting." FWIW, the only thing I, as an outsider anyway, wanted to click on was your hashtag how-to ... I am tired of people overusing hashtags (too often I see tweets…

June 14

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Access to Police Files Cut -- Literally'

WHAT???? Good grief. Your next step is to meet with the next guy/gal up the ladder. If that's the chief, great. If there's a captain or someone between the PIO and the chief, go there. Don't worry about ruffling feathers. You have to make a big squ…

May 27

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Google Analytics'

Is there really any place where readers love school videos? We shoot all sorts of community events but nothing beats breaking news and marine mammals. Period. Even our unedited long soundbite of an incident commander's briefing at the scene of a hig…

May 27

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Onto the Next Big Problem -- Creating a Comment Policy'

You have to evaluate on a case by case basis. I have struggled with "well, we prohibit people from namecalling person-to-person in the comment discussion, but we don't prohibit people from namecalling if they are referring to someone NOT involved in…

May 15

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Onto the Next Big Problem -- Creating a Comment Policy'

Our policy: No racism, sexism, sexual-orientation-ism, sizism ... you can attack what I say but not me (as in "you can call someone's comment idiotic but you cannot call them an idiot") ... you cannot accuse someone of criminal activity ... you cann…

May 13

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'Losing An Advertiser'

Oh heavens, don't delete or private-ize the "welcome post" (our term). It's part of what you published. We had this discussion on another list - we don't delete stories, period. We've had many sponsors who didn't renew - and more than a few of them…

May 7

Tracy Record commented on Michael Skoler's blog post 'Steal This Idea! Hot New Revenue for News'

You make it sound so simple. It requires people and time - time to sell, time to offer, time to administer, time to promote. That's what it would take to implement. Groupon just got, what, $135 million? That sure buys a lot of people and time. Even…

April 20

Jane Stevens commented on Tracy Record's blog post 'Honored for the business side of things'

Congratulations, Tracy and Patrick! It's terrific when your own community gives you these kind of kudos. And the award is well deserved. You're an inspiration for us all.

March 28

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'How to Generate Comments?'

P.S. And if the Register leaves up racist comments long enough for the OC Weekly to make a post about them - SHAME ON THEM. This is a point on which I am adamant. Unless you are declaring yourself a free-for-all, anything-goes zone - set rules and e…

March 19

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'How to Generate Comments?'

I don't believe in the tips 'n' tricks. Ending with a question always feels wrong to me, unless you really and truly have something you have no way of finding out. My question is: Are you writing about the hottest topics in your community? We have p…

March 19

Tracy Record commented on Amy Senk's blog post 'A Year in Review'

That's all pretty terrific for a year. Somebody who's writing about us for a project asked me about our first-year traffic. I looked it up ... 104,000 pageviews. Second year, 1.5 million. Third year, 6 million; fourth year, 8.2 million. West Seattle…

March 12

Amy Senk commented on Tracy Record's blog post 'Honored for the business side of things'

That is really fantastic, and congratulations! You should realize that from my perspective, and others here on this and the JTM boards, that it is unusual to find support from a local Chamber when you're in our business. I can't get them to do basic…

March 12

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Honored for the business side of things

In my corporate-news-media career, I won a few awards ... three Emmys are gathering dust on the shelf over the washing machine.

Haven't gotten around to entering awards competition for this endeavor yet - but we just won an award that we want to mention here, because it speaks to the "entrepreneurial" part of "entrepreneurial journalists in action."

Much to our shock and delight, the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce has just announced us as winners of the Business of the Year a… Continue

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

This crazy life

Reading Amy Senk's recent posts reminds me that we seldom stop down to write about how this entrepreneurial-journalism life really works. And in some cases, does not. Others, I'm sure, have told this same sort of story, but I really haven't yet, so for those who are considering this life:

As I start this, it is a rainy Saturday morning in late winter, and I know that many of our "readers" - still hate that word, they are more like "collaborators" - are NOT sitting in front of their comp… Continue

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 3:51am — 4 Comments

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At 12:26pm on November 18, 2009, RJI Collaboratory said…: Tracy -- saw that you started a new member account. Were you having any problem accessing the earlier one? Just wanted to know, in case I can help. Best, Adam on behalf of RJI Collab