Google Wave and journalism - what's the potential?
I originally wrote about this on my blog, but I'm curious what this group can come up with as potential uses for Wave in journalism.
The consensus out there seems to be that Wave can be used as a:
1. Internal newsroom budgeting tool
2. Reporter/editor project collaboration tool
3. Community conversation tool
4. Crowdsourcing and/or Wiki tool
There's a lot of directions this could go, from these general ideas to many, many more. For those of you that have used it - what are your ideas? What have you tried so far?
The consensus out there seems to be that Wave can be used as a:
1. Internal newsroom budgeting tool
2. Reporter/editor project collaboration tool
3. Community conversation tool
4. Crowdsourcing and/or Wiki tool
There's a lot of directions this could go, from these general ideas to many, many more. For those of you that have used it - what are your ideas? What have you tried so far?
Tags: google, ideas, media, social, tools, wave
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Permalink Reply by Greg Linch on -
I installed the Waveboard app and set it up with Growl notifications and just realized that I haven't opened in it in a couple of weeks. I kinda want to subscribe via RSS, haha.
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Permalink Reply by Mandy Jenkins on -
I think that may be the inherent problem with Wave in its current form - it doesn't integrate well into other online activities. I haven't visited in two weeks. It will occasionally email me if someone replied to something of mine, but beyond that - I have no reason to go.
You get the impression from reading most of the public discussions that nobody else does, either. It's like everyone's popping in for something to do for a short time and then leaving. I'm not sure what pushes Wave past this novelty bump - but mobile integration, better Gmail integration and complete public availability are a good start.
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Permalink Reply by Greg Linch on
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The author of this post pointed me to it on Twitter:
5 things you always wanted to know about Google Wave, but were too ...
Doesn't really change anything for me, but good way of addressing the topic.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Blanchard on -
Reporting back on our snowstorm wave ... we ended up with 44 people on the wave and 89 entries. We also had 27 votes in a poll.
Fifteen of the 44 people in the wave were our staffers, and they made 60 of the entries in the wave. That's probably a little more weighted toward our staff than would be ideal, but on the other hand, I was manning the metro desk Saturday and was using the wave as one way to deliver information about the storm, so a lot of those entries were mine.
But there was some good back-and-forth between non-staffers on the wave. I found that encouraging & it makes me want to keep trying different ways to use GWave.
Did anyone else happen to use it for the snowstorm (I think I saw the Baltimore Sun did, but I haven't checked their site to see how it went) or for any other newsy stuff? Would be interested to hear what you've found.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Blanchard on
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From a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a college-student-run blog at Penn State is using Google Wave:
"Google Wave, which is like e-mail, only live and jazzed-up with multimedia features, is their version of hollering across a newsroom. They use it to run the editorial operation. So, for example, Mr. Shaver and Mr. Glazier might develop a blog-post idea on Wave by sharing article links and other content like maps or videos. They can assign the post by inviting a writer to join the 'wave.' That writer can now access the content and can also click "playback" to see how the editors' original conversation evolved."
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