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Carlos Virgen
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Valley Residential Services hosts a Halloween dance
The annual Halloween celebration tops all others for clients of the agency.Waitsburg teacher introduces violins to 4th graders
Waitsburg music teacher Rebecca Wilson contacted the Walla Walla Symphony and was able to get violins for her 4th grade class. Iwo Jima veterans share their memories
Claro Bergevin hosted a reunion of World War II veterans. Kirkman House Quilts
See a collection of coverlets and quilts on display at KIrkman House. Vicki shares her experience on the fair rides
Reporter Vicki HIllhouse experienced first-hand the uneasiness that comes with riding many of the rides at the Walla Walla Fair. Tour of the Walla Walla Victory Gardens
Sustainable Walla Walla led a tour of local gardens to encourage people to plant there own gardens and to eat locally grown produce. National Guard members deployed to Iraq
Crowds with flags and yellow ribbons turned out on Main Street to send off members of the local National Guard. Hot August Nights
Hot August Nights horse show at the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds. National Night Out at Jefferson Park
Local law enforcement and businessses help celebrate National Night Out at Jefferson Park. 2008 Peach Basket Classic
The annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament bounced into downtown Walla Walla. Carlos Virgen's Page
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Profile Information
- What news organization do you work for?
- Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
- Which of these best describes your day job?
- Web Producer
- About Me:
- 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
- Website:
- http://www.union-bulletin.com
- LinkedIn Profile:
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosvirgen
- Twitter:
- http://twitter.com/Carlos72
Carlos Virgen's Blog
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
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 5:09pm —
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.
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It's unedited so it's a bit long.
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Posted on November 25, 2008 at 2:30pm — 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
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 2:57pm — 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
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 11:30am —
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 4:08pm — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 12:27pm 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 1:33pm 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 11:51am 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 9:51am 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...
- At 3:45pm on January 22, 2008,
maria p. gonzalez said… - thanks for geeking me out even more.
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