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The good, bad and ugly stuff that happened to me in 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 | 6 Comments

I detest typical “Year in Review” posts:

I ran in 2012 wearing these ridiculous glasses with my little sister, who came to York for the occasion.

I rang in 2012 wearing these ridiculous glasses with my little sister, who came to York for the occasion.

“I GOT ENGAGED.”

“I HAD A BABY.”

“I BOUGHT A HOUSE.”

Yep, I’ve done none of said things. I’m still living in my awesome bachelorette pad apartment in York city. I don’t have a ring on it. And there certainly isn’t a fetus growing inside of me (that I’m aware of).

But hey, I still had a pretty awesome year full of adventures, successes and things that made me think.

Here’s a list of the good, the bad and the ugly from 2012: Continue reading →

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Posted in Adventures, Writing, York Daily Record

Tagged 2012, adventures, digital first, fun, idealab, journalist, lauren boyer, reporter, year in review

This weekend: Hungry journalist bakes birthday cake

Posted on October 1, 2012 | 3 Comments

The kitchen debris from cake baking. It’s almost as messy as my desk at YDR.

Unrelated to journalism at all (except for the fact that I documented every step of the process with my iPhone), I baked a cake for the first time this weekend.

Trust me, it’s an accomplishment worthy of a blog post. Continue reading →

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Tagged birthday, fattening, hungry, iced lemon pound cake, journalist

#fatatwork: ideaLab cupcake torture and my new favorite hashtag

Posted on June 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

Working in a cupcake shop. No big deal … unless you have a sweet tooth.

This week, in #ideaLab mobile reportingland, let’s talk a little about willpower.

On Thursday, I voluntarily decided to work from the oasis of deliciousness known as Macklin’s Cupcakes.

I hadn’t really been out to that side of the county. I hadn’t really tortured myself, either. Continue reading →

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Posted in Community Outreach, Funny, ideaLab, iPad, Journalism, Mobile Reporting, Social Media, York Daily Record

Tagged #fatatwork, bad eating habits, cupcakes, digital first, digital first media, digital journalism, idealab, journalism, journalist, lauren boyer, Macklin's, mobile reporting, mojo, office life, pennsylvania, storify, York, york county, York Daily Record

Anatomy of a Central Market meet-up: Getting outside the office, generating page views

Posted on April 14, 2012 | 4 Comments

This story begins with my shameless self promotion a few days before the meet-up, both online and in the paper. It’s common sense:

If you want people to see you, you have to let them know where you are.

Here’s the “promo” that ran on ydr.com and in the York Daily Record/Sunday News early last week.

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Posted in Business, Community Outreach, ideaLab, iPad, Journalism, Social Media, Video, York Daily Record

Tagged brightcove, brightcove app, central market, community engagement, digital first, digital first media, idealab, journalism, journalist, meet-up, mobile office, mobile reporter, mobile reporting, outside the office, reporting, social media, storify, tweet up, Twitter, video, ydr.com, York, york county, York Daily Record

The ‘Source List:’ Using Google Forms to keep track of contacts as a reporter on-the-go

Posted on April 4, 2012 | 8 Comments

Adios, Word document source lists. Buh-bye, business card binder. Bane of my existence.

So, it took me longer than probably necessary on Wednesday night to put together this Google Form.

But hey — anything that’s worth doing is worth doing right.

You see, I can be messy.

My purse is a the Bermuda Triangle of handbags — a place where business cards get lost forever. Once I’ve jotted down a phone number on a paper notepad, I’ll never find it again once a story’s been filed.

In fact, I currently have a cache of sources listed haphazardly in a Word document on Harris (Brownie points to anyone in journalism who actually knows what Harris is.)

It’s 2012. Time to cut out the paper, I say. Continue reading →

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Posted in Community Outreach, ideaLab, Social Media, York Daily Record

Tagged address book, community outreach, crowdsourcing, digital first, digital first media, engagement, google docs, google forms, idealab, iPad, journalism, journalist, lauren boyer, media news, mobile journalism, reporter, social media, source list, York Daily Record