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Andrew Zahler replied to Carlos Virgen's discussion 'Data Visualization' in the group Tools you can use

Carlos. This may be way late, but I recommend checking out ManyEyes. I've used it to display data in special projects, most recently with this story on a police account audit. Hope this is of help on future projects.

October 14

Carlos Virgen joined Matt Neznanski's group

NewsInnovation Northwest

Moving forward after BarCamp NewsInnovation-Portland. We're planning future meetups, sharing innovations, bouncing new ideas. Use #ninw on Twitter. For more, see the Google Group.

September 21

Carlos Virgen commented on Patrick Thornton's blog post 'Why did you join Wired Journalists?'

I joined because I saw that Ryan was behind it and because I was hoping it would be a resource for ideas, tips, tools, networking, brainstorming... I've gone through periods where I've not visited the site and kind only really started to visit aga...

February 2

Profile Information

Job Title: Web Producer

News Organization: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

Bio: I"m online services manager at the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. It's my job to try to expand our web content. A big part of my job is to try to get the community involved in our online projects by actually going out and talking to community members.

You can find me on the web here:
Tumblr You'll find my various tweets, del.icio.us links, and other stuff I find interesting.
Flickr

This is my personal new media blog:
New Media Notes

Web site: http://www.union-bulletin.com

Blog: http://blogs.ublabs.org/thedigitalub/

Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/Carlos72

LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosvirgen

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NewsInnovation-Portland Barcamp

Calling all the Northwest wired journalists/new media folks. The meeting has been set for Feb. 21 (actual time hasn't been set) and it looks like it's going to take place at Portland State University Multicultural Center.

BarCamp NewsInnovation Portland is one of the regional editions of BarCamp NewsInnovation.

The idea is to get energetic, tech-savvy, open-minded individuals who embrace… Continue

Posted on February 2, 2009 at 8:09pm —

Insight on blogging from reporter Sheila Hagar

Our next step with our blogs is to get the bloggers to seek out other bloggers in the community and post comments, link to them, etc. I did a video interview with one of our reporters, Sheila Hagar (her From the Storage Room blog is our most popular) to ask her what she has gotten out of blogging so far.

It's unedited so it's a bit long.

… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Union-Bulletin blogs - take 2

We've just relaunched our blogs. We initially launched blogs earlier this year but they were poorly promoted and not updated very often which resulted in very little traffic. Very little.

About 3 weeks ago we relaunched them, promoted them and started running the latest blog headlines right on union-bulletin.com. The bloggers dove into them right away and started to post multiple times per week. I added some plug-ins so that readers can consume the content in a variety of ways including via ema… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 5:57pm — 2 Comments

Some digital updates from Walla Walla

I recently was promoted to Online Services Manager and tasked with expanding and growing our online content and products. Which means: Create features and websites that will attract all of Walla Walla. And here is a part-time web content person. Oh and make sure you do more outreach into the community and help fill niches.

These are all challenges that I welcome. In particular the community outreach aspect of it really appeals to me. That is one of the priorities that I have set up for our new… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 2:30pm —

Webcast experiment

We've been producing a daily news webcast for the past 2 months. Basically a scripted update of the upcoming news items usually for that day. I have been shooting and editing the webcast every morning and have tried to include photos and video clips whenever possible. The length has been about 3 minutes. Promotion has been pretty much non-existent. I've posted links via our Twitter feed. Viewership never got past about 60 views per day and in fact have steadily decreased to about 10 a day now.… Continue

Posted on July 30, 2008 at 7:08pm — 2 Comments

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At 3:27pm on February 4, 2009, Tammi Wark Marcoullier said…: Hey Carlos,
See that you're mandated with growing your audience and more outreach. Would love to talk and share some ideas from my experience. Great to see you're having success with blogs.
Best,
Tammi

At 4:33pm on January 31, 2008, Andrew Zahler said…: Well, welcome to the Inland Northwest! I hope that didn't seem off-putting. I just like to get to know people in this increasingly fractured society. It sounds like you've got a lot on your plate in your new job. I'm pretty new to this stuff too, and my role is probably less all-encompassing than yours. But it would be great to bounce ideas around.

At 2:51pm on January 30, 2008, Andrew Zahler said…: Hi. Thanks for the friend invite. I'm not sure we've met, and I generally like to know folks a little bit before adding them as contacts. How did you get into the Web producing gig?

At 12:51pm on January 27, 2008, Angela Grant said…: Hello there! Please forgive me, but do we know each other? I've always been terrible with names, and now the problem is compounded because I meet so many people online through my blog. Please remind me...