Updates from November, 2009

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  4 2.0 website launches this week!

  Admin 11:24 am on November 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Heya all,

  I’m happy to report a great week for the web staff in Austin, Greensboro, Greenville and Sacramento along with the busy bees in the Digital staff all working hard to wrap up 2.0 websites.

  This project has matched a record we held in April for launching four 2.0 webtsites in a week.  Nice Job!   Those of you who have worked on this project with the Digital staff understand the chalenging path it takes in order to launch one of these sites.  So cudos to the following stations:

  KAMX Austin (Dave Munoz) – http://www.mix947.com – This site must have the most prolific blogger in the company in Heather Rivera.  Her blog is named “Heather’s Thingies“, of all things.  Heather had to port over 1100 posts from her old blog into the blogs on RadioTown.   The shear number of posts actually broke the import script in WordPress it was so big. WOW!

  WQMG Greensboro (Christopher Shaw) – http://www.wqmg.com – I gotta dig the “Ol School Video of the Day”.  Good stuff for the old.  Still waiting for The Humpty Dance to show.  (I’ve dated myself)

  WSPA Greenville (Tracy West) - http://www.magic989online.com – Three words.  Ho ho ho!   On top of that, I always dig adding audio offerings on the home page. Stacy’s Tips at 6, is the kind of audio we are asking from our stations.  I look forward to checking it out frequently.

  http://www.magic989online.com

  KBCZ Sacramento (Josh Pusateri) – http://www.90sbuzz.com.  This site’s specific honor is Josh’s heroic efforts to do very fast turnarounds to get this site launched on time.  He even came in on a day he had schedule for a vacation.   Nice work Josh!

  NICE WORK ALL OF YOU!!!

  Only 15 sites left!

  ~n

   

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  Holiday Websites

  Admin 2:27 pm on October 1, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Welcome All,

  The Holiday websites are being created. We’ll be meeting with the stations the week of 10/5.

  For our 2.0 websites, the Digital team has identified the best, modifiable elements on your sites’  key identifying places within the new 2.0 websites that will make this change as quick and easy as possible.

  • Website Background Image – Changing the background of your website for all pages
  • Header change – For all site pages
  • Navigation change – For all site pages
  • The backgrounds of the second and third rows of your homepage -  Homepage only.
  • Snow falling overlay – Homepage only

  Below are a few examples of designs to get us in the mood.

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  
  

  Please feel free to reach out to me (nborders@entercom.com) if you have any questions.

  ~n

  PS: Here is an example of the snow.

   
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  FlyCast, PODS and Voki (Oh My)

  Admin 10:08 am on September 15, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: FlyCast FlyTunes Voki PODS Content

  Hello,

  We are of course violating the first rule of blogging by not posting meaningful updates more frequently. So here’s our attempt to address that.

  Three quick updates have been pushed out in various forums, but seemed blog-worthy as well.

  1. FlyCast – FlyCast is the company that is enabling us to stream to the iPhone and iPod Touch (and soon Blackberry, FYI). Right now, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle are streaming on FlyCast. Several markets are coming up (based on bandwidth and Digital sales readiness), and we are proactively reaching out to markets as we slate them. The FlyCast app is now the #9 most popular app in Apple’s app store. Everything you need to know about FlyCast is here.

  2. PODS – At the beginning of 2008 we announced that we would be phasing out the seasonal PODS [Promotions on Demand] program in order to focus on station-specific content and BizDev/content initiatives such as 1Thing and Balance. That said, we are still supporting the current PODS if there are existing sales commitments. Nick Borders and the team need four weeks notice for these. More info here.

  3. Voki – Oddcast, our partner who powers the Voki avatar communities, is no longer offering free Voki communities as a result of changes they have made internally. If you have a sponsor interested in sponsoring a custom Voki site, you should contact Sandy for details and pricing. These are generally in the $2,500-$5,000 range.

   
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  People Power – Web 2.0

  Admin 8:35 am on March 10, 2008 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  

  One of my favorite podcasts is the radio show On The Media. Last week’s episode included a great interview with Clay Shirky. His new book, Here Comes Everybody, depicts this online world, driven by networks that grow and act in never-before-seen ways.

   http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/20...

  Read the transcript or listen to the Interview. I feel this gives some good perspective on our future challenges in this medium.

  The best take away from this inteview is the opening line:

  “So it’s an old notion, isn’t it? Wasn’t it Ben Franklin who first observed that the Internet builds communities? What’s new here?”

  ~n

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  Now playing: Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Orion

   
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  One Final Plea

  Admin 10:48 am on December 28, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  One final plea for station folks to take our pods survey: go here