Stephanie Romanski's Page

The best part of my job is being able to take advantage of some great tools to make my newspaper better. The two best tools so far have been Twitter and Cover It Live. I've had a Twitter account set up for The Independent for some time now, and it's been slow, but we're getting followers now. I set up a feed to post latest headlines to it and I left it alone. I love stuff that runs itself. But now that our Twittership is growing, I want to bring… Continue

To allow commenting on a newspaper website or not. I hate that I can see all sides of this issue. As a longtime internet user, I love the ability to comment right away on a news story I read. I know my 2 cents don't add up to much, but I feel better if I can voice my reactions to something. News sites that don't allow commenting are one sure way to prevent me from coming back. On the flip side, it only takes one or two trolls hiding behind anonymity to ruin it for everyone else. And when those… Continue

I cannot say enough wonderful things about CoverItLive.com! Today is our paper's launch of our new design and we've experienced some "issues" with DNS propogation which was confusing for some of our readers. Being able to have a live chat running to discuss the redesign and kinks with it has been helpful and frankly, fun! I enjoy having this option avai… Continue

My fellow WiredJ member Tonya and I will be teaching our first class on blogging. I'm excited and a little nervous about it. So I'm wondering if I could solicit ideas from you creative types on the stuff we should not forget to teach these guys. Now, these aren't journalists we're teaching, but just regular folks who are interested in blogging (and could potentially become part of our com… Continue

I ran across this blog on BoingBoing this morning and I'm very interested in the idea of using the search box/keyword idea the next time I need to promote something on/for our website. I can see it being useful for promoting different section, or a special series - anything that might have a rather long URL. The downside, I suppose, would be the potential for a search… Continue