Upgrading Breaking News City Sites with Twitter List Widgets

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Upgrading the Breaking News City site with Twitter List Widgets

Patrick KitanoDomus Consulting Group

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Breaking News City sites aggregate the best Twitter feeds in each city and display them categorically

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First, start with an existing Breaking News city site

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Create a Twitter feed based on your city or community name

Twitter.com/BreakingSFNews

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Next, create Twitter Lists* of the best local Twitterers by category

* Don’t know what a Twitter List is? See reference slideshow at end of this presentation.

This is what your community wants to

see…

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Your Twitter Lists aggregate the best Twitter feeds for events, sports and food, etc. in the city

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How do you find good Twitter feeds for your Lists?

Click “Find People”

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Search for your city name, and find local Twitterers

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Add good Twitter feeds to the appropriate List

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Tip:

Find a good local Twitter List and add those Tweets to your Lists

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Within an hour, you should have developed a local Twitter resource that your community will follow

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Next, place those Twitter Lists you just created into the Breaking News site using a “widget”

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You now need to build Twitter List widgets

Go to www.Twitter.com/goodies and click Widgets

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Create a List Widget

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Confirm the Settings for your List category and widget title

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Customize Preferences and check “Loop results” for scrolling. We like 4 seconds per tweet interval

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Create a color scheme that matches the Breaking News website.

Be sure to note the color setting code and copy this for each widget you build

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Size the widget.

For Breaking News sites 500x500 works

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Copy the widget embed code

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And paste directly into the html format of the web page

(example, Wordpress)

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(Be sure to turn off the old scrolling function of the Breaking News site)

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Repeat for all the categories.

Build many categories to provide a comprehensive Breaking News presence in your city

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The Breaking News site plus its Twitter feed provide a unique, compelling local community news service.

And they are easy to set up…

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Related slideshow:

Find at www.slideshare.net/pkitano

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Domus Consulting Group develops automated award winning community engagement systems

Patrick KitanoManaging Principalpat@domusconsultinggroup.com(415) 573-2481

Breaking News Network winner of “Most Innovative

Media 2009”