A York Daily Record/Sunday News file photo shows Bob Anthony, maintenance worker at U-Stor-It in York County.
A month ago, Denise Anthony at U-STOR-IT self storage, a local storage locker business, contacted me about doing a live chat.
Initially, I had my doubts.
Why would anyone want to chat with a storage unit place? Storage lockers, to me, seemed to be a niche so specific it wouldn’t attract a large audience.
Then I thought bigger: STORAGE WARS! Continue reading
From time to time, I keep tabs on this old video of me, a 20-year-old intern at the Patriot-News in Harrisburg.
It was filmed in the summer of 2008 by photographer Michael Fernandez.
It was my father who told me about the infamous hill in Lewisberry, a town in the northern part of York County near Harrisburg where the coverage areas of the York Daily Record and Patriot-News technically overlap. Continue reading
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That’s me, molding young minds.
For the York Daily Record/Sunday News 19th annual high school journalism workshop, I presented my ideaLab project and the concept of the “mobile newsroom.”
I also did something that made at least two of my colleagues cringe.
During my 45-minute session, dubbed #boyer101, I allowed the self-proclaimed snarkiest member of the audience to tweet AS me from MY account, @laurenboyer.
Hilarity ensued. Continue reading
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Other than this (which was possibly the most exciting news of my two-years-out-of-college career), I don’t usually win stuff.
Especially things involving writing that are … well … somewhat subjective in nature.
So I was pleasantly surprised this morning to discover I had won a Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Award for second place in feature writing. Continue reading
I searched 'zombie' on The Google, and this is the first thing that showed up.
Blabbing about journalism is always fun.
This week I got to do just that.
Mandy Jenkins, Digital Projects Editor at Digital First Media, talked to me for her blog, Zombie Journalism.
Click here to read the interview.
I talked about my weekly live chats with area businesses and what I’ve learned, along with providing a “how-to” on using the kick-ass Cover It Live application to engage the community.
Check it out.
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So, when I got my iPhone a few weeks ago, I sort of made the number available to the public. Continue reading
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I have yet to determine whether the live chats I’m doing every Friday with different businesses are worth my time or not.
But I hate breaking a streak.
So, the other Friday, when I was unable to make chat time, I taught my co-worker Sean Adkins how to use Cover It Live to connect with a local staffing agency. Continue reading
Tis the season to be stoopin'! I snagged this gem with my iPhone and posted it on ydr.com's York City Limits blog.
To be clear, I have never in my life owned an iPhone.
So, when I was chosen for Digital First Media’s ideaLab team, I was thrilled with the prospect of having a high quality digital camera (as well as the Twitters) at my disposal at all times. Continue reading
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My short-lived imposter. Click to enlarge.
For a brief second, I felt pretty cool this week after a brush with the “fake” Twitter account phenomena reserved primarily for dignified celebrities like Rick Santorum and David Hasselhoff.
I was confused, yet ecstatic.
The imposter — who I later discovered was another York Daily Record staffer — perfectly, and hilariously, nailed my love of all things crass.
I nabbed the above screenshot before the account was deleted.
R.I.P. FakeLaurenBoyer.
