Why I'm Beatblogging: It Helps the Print Product, Too.


	Why I'm Beatblogging: It Helps the Print Product, Too.

Digidave

3-10-2008 3:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a86d8c22-3971-4782-bdf9-30e11f8d3360/1558CFD9-E3D5-4A42-B586-66AB0FC2B053/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/" href="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/" style="font-size: 11px;">bydanielvictor.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Why I’m beatblogging: It helps the print product, too" rel="bookmark" href="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/">Why I’m beatblogging: It helps the print product, too</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/"><P>Here’s the point most often missed: <STRONG>Successful beatblogging saves, not costs, reporters their time.</STRONG> In a fraction of the time and effort, it accomplishes all these goals that any reporter would share:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It can drastically increase your quantity of sources</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It can drastically increase the diversity of your sources</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It can positively develop your relationship with sources</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It allows you to stay in constant contact with those sources without picking up the phone and calling them individually</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It encourages those sources to share story ideas or current happenings</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It can lead you into background or context to your stories you wouldn’t otherwise know about</LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/"><P>Along with these additional benefits that the new-media types love:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/10/why-im-beatblogging-to-make-all-of-my-reporting-better-and-easier/"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It encourages a sense of community</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It gets information to people in the form that they choose</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It allows for a depth that the print product can’t achieve</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It makes the news a conversation instead of a declaration</LI>
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