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Explores strategies for magazine publishers in taking content online, the move from product to service and the importance of conversation and community to distribution
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Paul BradshawSenior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com)Blogger, Online Journalism Blog
Web strategy for magazines
3 Rules
1.A service, not a product2.Community and
conversation3.Your readers are your
distributors – go where they are
Service, not product
• It’s interactive, stupid• Users, not just readers• Database-driven (e.g Future, What
Car?)• Platforms• Personalisation• Multimedia – video, podcasts,
animation
Community
• Always at the heart of a successful magazine• Members’ club• Forums• Events (Eventbrite)• User blogs (Wordpress, Blogger)• UGC• Blog comments• Social networks (Ning, Crowdvine)• Video (YouTube etc.)• But not without…
Conversation – party host or party guest?
• Blogs – Linking– Informal– transparent– Open– Inclusive– Responsive (e.g. answer comments)
• Post comments on other blogs• Guest post on other blogs• Invite bloggers to guest post on yours
More conversation
• Twitter • Video conversation (Seesmic, etc.)• Blip.fm, Last.fm• Social networking (FB, Bebo, MySpace, LinkedIn)• Social bookmarking (Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon)• Tagging• Voting• Virtual worlds (Second Life etc.)• Games (WoW etc.)
Multimedia
Conversation =
Distribution
Readers are distributors
• Sharing (email/SMS to a friend; bookmark; digg)• Widgets• RSS feeds• Embeddable video and audio• Wallpapers, themes, etc.• Creative Commons licensed images?• Open APIs• Posting on video sharing sites (YouTube etc.)• Posting on image sharing sites (Flickr etc.)• Facebook apps (Dapper)• mobile apps (Widsets)
The Google factor
• What makes Google rank a webpage higher?
• Incoming links
• Outgoing links
• Frequently updated (including user activity, e.g. comments, uploads)
• URL, page title, headings, clean code
• Content
Measuring success
• % of visitors coming from links
• PageRank
• Technorati: blog reactions (incoming links)
• Time spent on site
Monetisation
• Advertising – including on partner blogs• Syndication• Sell things (Mixmag downloads; NME tickets)• Affiliate schemes• Merchandising• Broker models (middleman)• Sell services (gambling, dating, adverts)• Mobile downloads• (…But basically, no one knows)
Once again…
1.A service, not a product2.Community and
conversation3.Your readers are your
distributors – go where they are
Do something now
• You will need:• 1 idea for a magazine• a community it is intended for• 3 ideas for how to serve/contribute to
that community• 4 ideas for how to create content
that people will want to distribute• 5 ideas for how to bring people to
your content/platforms
Play
• Social network• Sign up to Delicious, bookmark pages,
create network• Comment on blogs and forums• Start conversations on Twitter• Join groups on Flickr, YouTube• Sign up to Facebook groups• Create your own social network on Ning or
Crowdvine
Further reading
• Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody• David Weinberger – Everything is
Miscellaneous• Charles Leadbeater – We Think• Making money from journalism:
http://bit.ly/1fZZ3k• News distribution in a new media world:
http://bit.ly/2p7vNV• C is for Community: http://bit.ly/yc4gF
Paul BradshawSenior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com)Blogger, Online Journalism Blog