We’ve published a new Snapshot from the Edge!
Normally, Snapshots are digitally focused: Past Snapshots included those about newspapers using Twitter, live-streaming video interviews with presidential candidates, and creating interactive grocery carts.
But this one is about the first newspaper to take an idea that originated in the tech community and run with it – offline. At the end of CopyCamp, newspaper staffers had stronger community connections and a bunch of good ideas.
CopyCamp Brings Community Offline and Into the Newsroom
At a time when newspapers are trying to connect with their readers through article comments, social networks and other Web 2.0 tools, The San Jose Mercury News took a step in the opposite direction.
“Nothing beats just sitting across the table from someone else and having a conversation,” said Mercury News business reporter and columnist Chris O’Brien.
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