This is me in high school at the coffee shop where I worked. I super angsty and said things in the Internet that I probably shouldn’t … but then again, who hasn’t? Live and learn.
On the heels of the #hbgsmc meeting, I had a an epiphany yesterday.
I started wondering about the types of mediums I used before social media was called “social media.”
Then, I freaked out.
Xanga. Continue reading
On Thursday, I had a special treat.
Some of my last group learning about journalism, and why it’s fun and everyone should do it, obviously.
I had the pleasure of speaking with two groups of young people at Martin Library for the annual Youth Empowerment Summit.
Sponsored by the Harley-Davidson Foundation, the event connects students from the York Homeschool Association and 12 school districts with local professionals and artisans.
I got to speak about journalism, which is pretty rad.
I thought about bringing the NewsVroom van, but ultimately decided against it. I can’t parallel park my own car, let alone a gigantic creeper van. Continue reading
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During a brief hiatus from this blog, I learned about the joys of SnapChatting from my little sister, Casey. She’s 21 and totally hip.
Hello world.
I’m back at it after a couple week hiatus.
What happened during that time, you ask?
(Or maybe you don’t. I often think people are more interested in my shenanigans than they actually are.)
For one, I took the bajillion days off that I had been storing all year long for no particular purpose.
I used the time to experience the culture of the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
I also learned about the SnapChat app from my sister. My life will never be the same.
How it works: You send someone an image, but they can only see it for 10 seconds before it disappears. You can draw on the photo. Give them a mustache. Type a message on top of it. Whatever.
But they can only see it for 10 BLOODY SECONDS.
I don’t get it, but I love it. And I hear it’s what the kids are doing these days. Continue reading
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So, I meant to write about how this went a while back … before I got some much needed beach time.
Feet in the sand at Dewey Beach, Del., just after I dropped off the blogging map.
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Tagged april trotter, digital first, engagement, idealab, kids, lauren boyer, meet-up, mobile reporting, moms, outreach, playground, smart magazine, social media, ydr, York Daily Record
So, I was starting to get mega POed, because my tweets weren’t showing up on these Gathering Point maps folks are starting to make at the office.
I felt left out.
I went to the Location Services tab in the Settings app on my iPhone and thought I activated the Twitter switch:
Alas, my tweets were still lost in an abyss. Continue reading
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Tagged apps, digital first, feed, gathering point, geographic, idealab, location services, maps, mojo, not showing up, reporting, social media, tweets, Twitter, York Daily Record
This is the closed food court, caution tape and all. My editor, Cathy Hirko, noticed I’m getting a little artsy fartsy with my iPhone photos.
The other day, I posted about Gathering Point, this neat tool you can use to make social maps that update in realtime to complement stories.
On Tuesday, I had the perfect opportunity to see it in action: A cockroach infestation that closed the food court at the York Galleria mall.
On a side note, that day, I pretty much almost crashed my car on Rt. 30.
En route to the mall, I had my notepad pinned against the steering wheel while I took notes from Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Samantha Krepps. Continue reading
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The only photo I tweeted out from Excitement Video and Toys’ Ladies Night on Thursday. It’s a shoe. There is nothing dirty about shoes.
Once upon a time, there was a business reporter who got assigned to go to Excitement Video and Toys for work.
Yes, work.
“It’s an economy story,” she convinced herself, as she nervously perused the displays of kinky gadgets not suitable to describe to her 58-year-old mother — let alone an entire county of print subscribers.
The goal: to tastefully write about how the erotic novel ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ was affecting sales of … um … products. Continue reading
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What’s going on in Boyer’s neighborhood? Click the map.
So, because WordPress is dumb, and I can’t figure out how to embed an iFrame into the non-customized blog that I barely pay anything annually for, here’s the deal:
Today, my editor Cathy Hirko gave me a distraction that, if executed properly, should keep me sufficiently amused all weekend. Continue reading
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So, I had my doubts about guerrilla marketing stories.
To me, it just seems like a hassle — not to mention irritating — to be posting EVERY story I write on random Facebook walls, forums, blogs and the like.
But yesterday proved me wrong.
Our “Risky Business” package had dropped off the radar of ydr.com’s Top 10.
Sean and I may have shed a tear.
Alas, we weren’t ready to throw in the towel. This project is the result of months worth of work. Continue reading
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