IT'S been a strange old week at Tribune Towers. For some reason I've actually found I've got a bit of spare time on my hands.
Time to do things like, gasp, forward plan. Work on projects like this blog and how to best utilise the space.
This is a very rare occurrence - normally I'm too busy get the paper out to think beyond the next deadline.
I don't know how I managed it, but on Tuesday afternoon - one of the busiest days of the week - I spent a good couple of hours thinking about new ways to engage you, our readers.
One of the main problems we have as a group - and in that I'm talking about the Tribune, the Bedworth Echo and The Hinckley Times - is our online presence.
We have so many ideas about digital media and the way forward, but we don't necessarily have the facilities to put them into action.
Hopefully that will soon change. Trinity Mirror, the newspaper group to which we belong, is rolling out a new system of websites.
They're all singing, all dancing, and the best thing is they are very community orientated.
But we're pretty ambitious around here, not to mention impatient. Yes, stop shouting all those who know me - I am indeed the most impatient of the lot.
We've led the way with our blogs and Facebook accounts, and now others are following suit.
So we don't want to sit around and wait for them to catch up.
We want to move on again, so over the next few weeks we'll be trying out some new things on here and our sister sites for the Times and Echo.
We'll be trying to maximise what we can do, but it would be great to know what you think.
Whether it's something we can do now, or in the future when we get our swanky new websites, we'd love to hear from you.
Leave a comment on the blog or on the new message forum, or simply fill in our quick survey.
Let the debate begin!
The Tribune Office
...hard at work as always
2 comments:
Good to see the paper embracing new technology. I've added the blog to my RSS feeds, my new favourite way to keep up to date with sites of interest.
We understand the problem of getting people to be involved. Over in Coventry at Grapevine a charity for people with learning disabilities, & more recently in Nuneaton at Aim4 we have 2 media teams for people with learning disabilities. The project is funded by the Big Lottery for 3 years. Our aim is to change how people think about learning disability by using the media. We have done some training to learn more about the media and have set up a press office so that hopefully once we have the confidence we can support other groups like ours to work with their local media. As part of the project we have set up 2 blog sites. One for people with learning disabilities to talk to each other about whatever they want: chattervine.blogspot.com. The other may be of interest to your readers it is for anyone to chat about how the media represents people with learning disabilities: grapevinemedia.blogspot.com. Good luck with getting readers involved we will log into you regularily and perhaps you may do the same to us.
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