Category Archives: Meet-ups

NewsVrooming with the Girl Scouts at Dover Area Community Library

Posted on January 17, 2013 | 1 comment

So, last night was super fun.

I joined co-workers Brittany Wilson and Sarah Chain to kickoff the NewsVroom’s yearlong initiative of visiting York County libraries.

We traveled to Dover Area Community Library, where I had the opportunity to present my ideaLab project to Girl Scout Troop #20195.

Before a mock press conference, I discussed basic apps (QuickVoice, iMovie, Notability, 360Pano, etc.) and I got to play this video of this old man with his funny cane.

The best part: One of the girls recommended I go set up my “office” at Chuck-E-Cheese.

Loves it.

Here are some photos from the event:

I had to drive the NewsVroom van, because — let’s be honest — everyone else was scared to.

Continue reading →

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Posted in Adventures, Apps, Boyer101, Community Outreach, Digital First, ideaLab, iPad, iPhone, Meet-ups, Mobile Reporting, NewsVroom, Reporting, York Daily Record

Tagged Brittany Wilson, Dover, dover area community library, education, Girl Scouts, mobile media lab, newspapers, newsvroom, sarah chain, York, york county

Boyer talks SnapChat, whereabouts for the last two weeks

Posted on January 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

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 →

Liveblogging the ‘pie party’ and other assorted random weekend shenanigans

Posted on October 19, 2012 | 2 comments

Because I’m ridiculous …

And because I overestimate the interest in my random adventures …

And because I want practice liveblogging, so I’m not like “Um, how the heck do I use this?” when I have to do it for breaking news …

I’m liveblogging the rural ‘pie party’ extravaganza I’m going to around 7 p.m. Click here on our York Common Cents blog for updates, if you care.

Feel free to chime in with a comment and annoy me. Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog Posts, Community Outreach, Digital First, ideaLab, iPad, iPhone, Live Chat, Meet-ups, Mobile Reporting, Reporting, ScribbleLive, Social Media, York Daily Record

Tagged app, digital first, downtown inc, idealab, journalism, kickball, lauren boyer, live blog, mojo, pie party, rural, scribblelive, washington township, ydr.com, york county, York Daily Record, york pa

Boyer the Explorer: I’m going to a ‘pie party’ in rural York County

Posted on October 18, 2012 | 4 comments

Some delicious pie I consumed last week.

After visiting a diner in northern York County, I got an email from a reader.

“You should visit our close knit neighborhood in the farm country of Northern York Country,” it said.

Jim Dickey is having a pie party Friday night at his home on Blue Hill School Road. And I’m invited.

What’s a pie party, you ask?

It’s a community gathering in the rural farmlands — one with lots of pies, obviously. Continue reading →

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Posted in Community Outreach, Digital First, ideaLab, Journalism, Meet-ups, Mobile Reporting, York Daily Record

Tagged columns, community, dickey, journalism, lauren boyer, live blog, mojo, news, pie party, rural, ydr, york county, York Daily Record

That time I visited a place where no one knew what the York Daily Record was … and it’s OK

Posted on October 12, 2012 | 2 comments

Fruit cup + toast + computer + Hootsuite = love.

I got some good feedback from my column today, which focused on my travels Thursday through northern York County, a place that doesn’t get much attention from our paper.

So far, it inspired one couple to invite me to their a “pie party” next week in the rural farmlands of northern York county. More on that later.

I just wanted to add a few tidbits of awesomeness from yesterday, despite the annoying fact that no one intentionally stopped by to share a story idea.

But hey, it happens sometimes — even when you promote the crap out of yourself. Continue reading →

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Posted in Columns, Community Outreach, Digital First, ideaLab, Journalism, Meet-ups, Mobile Reporting, Reporting, Social Media, York Daily Record