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How Techmeme could fuel growth of regional tech blogs (like this one)
On Thursday, our story on Dwolla’s new feature, “Instant,” yielded our highest traffic day ever, an important accomplishment to cap off a major year of growth for Silicon Prairie News. By itself, the traffic was cause for celebration, but more important to our team was how the traffic came about. It was the result …
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Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, contributor update and guest posts
It’s Big Omaha season, can you tell? It’s that time of year when we put our small staff on overdrive to maintain content production and manage one of our premier events. The regular volume of posts (3-4 per day) has decreased, our email reply times have slowed and phone calls aren’t being returned as quickly,…
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Editor’s Notebook: New team member, editor email and process
While preparing to give my “lightning talk” at last night’s Hacks/Hackers Heartland meetup – an Omaha group I encourage you to check out – I noticed that we’ve made quite a few changes at Silicon Prairie News since our second editor, Michael Stacy, came on board March 1. And as we implement those changes, our…
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Editor’s Notebook: The ‘Contributor Guide’ – Defining our focus
In a post earlier today, I welcomed a new batch of writers to the Silicon Prairie News team: “Welcome our new writers: Adams, Ellingson, Beenken & Rosol.” With these writers aboard, we now have 10 individuals across five cities to cover the activity on the Silicon Prairie. But what does that mean? As in, what…
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Editor’s Notebook: The week that was…
Since coming on board full-time at Silicon Prairie News in June 2009, I can’t remember a busier content production week than last week. A busier week? Yes. (See: Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, content lag.) But a week in which every day we had to choose what stories we’d cover because we didn’t have the bandwidth…