Comments on: Nine Must-Haves for the Social Media Newsroom of My Dreams

By: Richard A. Lewis

Richard A. Lewis — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:52:21 +0000

I like the part about “hyperlinked attribution” that is essential. Thank you for the article.

By: Robert Goetze, twago

Robert Goetze, twago — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:18:34 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I think some people – or experts – exaggerate the whole social media newsroom thing. Those tips are realistic and doable.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:23:22 +0000

nice reply shannon. thankfully chris’s pitch, err post probably made more people laugh at what a d-bag post that was than click through to his website :)

By: Dee Rambeau

Dee Rambeau — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:25:14 +0000

Hey Shannon,
good stuff here. The point that Chris is making is that the “technology” for making these wonderful newsrooms has been around for years. WordPress is just one of the dozens of good CMS options for making a quality microsite…newsroom…product launch site…trade show site…crisis site…etc. Your affection for WordPress is great but WP is truly only one option among many…and there are many like iPressroom, MediaRoom, etc. that have specific social media newsroom features and a significant “tested” user base.

As a SME in the space, I wanted to log in…Chris’s pitch is valid. We have been evangelizing quality newsrooms together for years…even as competitors. Your “wish list” is something we’ve been “pitching” for many, many years. The strategy that you lay out is the key…the “tool” has been available.

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By: Shannon Paul

Shannon Paul — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:28:13 +0000

Philippe,

I will definitely update everyone with the details very soon. Although I can definitely recommend Thesis (developed by Chris Pearson). I’ve just started digging into that and (when I get around to it) plan to migrate my existing blog into a self-hosted WordPress account using Thesis as my template. Here is a link to purchase the template: http://diythemes.com/

By: Shannon Paul

Shannon Paul — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:24:47 +0000

Roula -
Definitely! I can’t wait to send you the link!

By: roula

roula — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:25:14 +0000

When your newsroom launches, e-mail me. Ragan.com would love to do a story on it.

thanks

By: Dominic Litten

Dominic Litten — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:47:17 +0000

I agree, comments do show interactivity and there is value in traffic/caching in trackbacks and pingbacks. But comments on everything (like calendars) may be pushing it.

As for search value for posting entire articles one page, give me headlines and new pages any day of the week. Wouldn’t you think five pages with unique titles/metas, unique content, optimized URL, internal linking, etc. would be more SEO-friendly than one really long page?

By: Philippe Borremans

Philippe Borremans — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:50:42 +0000

Hi Shannon,

Great list and I still can’t understand why PROs within companies (and agencies for that matter) take so long to “upgrade” their newsroom…

I have been convinced from the start that a blogging platform like WordPress would be a good one to make this easy and user friendly for most of us communications types with no IT/Web background.

So what is your solution ? A specific WordPress template you had developed ?

If so, please share it with us and I would be interested in the contact details of the developers as well, even though I am using http://www.pitchengine.com now…