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Republishing a note from Randy. RALEIGH, N.C. — SMARTNEWS News Cooperative unveiled its national member-only news content service on April 1, 2009, offering affordable a la carte content for publishers from a growing network of 36 journalists, ar...
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Jim McBee commented on Jim McBee's blog post 'Can I feed my Wordpress blog into my ning blogs ...'
Exactly my problem, Paul. Want to be in several places at once, but don't feel the need to write everything from scratch — audiences are too similar, just in different places.
March 16
Paul Balcerak commented on Jim McBee's blog post 'Can I feed my Wordpress blog into my ning blogs ...'
Let me know if you come up with a way to do this. So far I've been able to feed my WordPressl blog onto my Ning page with a widget, but I haven't found a way to get it to post on the main news feed. I also wasn't able to export my Ning blog archiv...
March 15
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... or vice versa? Not really interested in feeding to the sidebar on my ning page, which no one looks at. I do that at visualeditors.ning.com; I'm pretty sure no one knows but me. I have no trouble feeding into my crappy handmade page. So why no...
March 14
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Our project is in the fledgling, shoestring, bootstrap, pre-alpha-testing state right now. We have no Web development expertise (ha! would a real developer show off his/her work before alpha testing it?), but some business startup knowledge. If y...
March 12
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OK, so you've been laid off, downsized, overseased, or your newspaper chain is just about on its last legs. You're starting to freelance, or maybe you have been for a long time. You've got skills, you've got contacts, you've got a backlog of stori...
March 10

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Editor
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Smartnews, Eli Research
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I'm a partner with Randy Foster in Smartnews, a freelance journalism cooperative that provides income and access to markets for writers, photographers, artists and editors, and affordable content for publishers.

I also write medical coding and medical policy newsletters.

By background, I'm a newspaper designer and editor with years of experience as a mouse jockey; I've reported, photographed and made Web pages, managed copy editors and designers and worked on projects.

Specialties: Newspaper design, integrating words and images to tell a story, managing creative employees, changing newsrooms, integrating Web and print, redesign, tab conversion
Web site
http://www.smartnewsnc.com
Blog
http://smartnewsnc.wordpress.com
Twitter URL
http://twitter.com/jimmcbee
LinkedIn URL
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/692/416

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In lieu of pizza party, the latest Smartnews press release

Republishing a note from Randy.

RALEIGH, N.C. — SMARTNEWS News Cooperative unveiled its national member-only news content service on April 1, 2009, offering affordable a la carte content for publishers from a growing network of 36 journalists, artists and specialists. The cooperative takes an innovative approach that provides high-quality news, features, sports and visuals for print, online and broadcast, at extremely low prices. Content creators benefit from exposure to a broad net
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Posted on April 4, 2009 at 1:21pm —

Jim McBee

Can I feed my Wordpress blog into my ning blogs ...

... or vice versa? Not really interested in feeding to the sidebar on my ning page, which no one looks at. I do that at visualeditors.ning.com; I'm pretty sure no one knows but me.

I have no trouble feeding into my crappy handmade page. So why not in this slick, 2.0-friendly ning universe — which contains actual people I'd like to connect with?

Seems like there'd be an obvious widget or strand of code for this, so one person may have several blog presence… Continue

Posted on March 14, 2009 at 8:28pm — 2 Comments

Jim McBee

Would love your input on smartnewsnc.com

Our project is in the fledgling, shoestring, bootstrap, pre-alpha-testing state right now. We have no Web development expertise (ha! would a real developer show off his/her work before alpha testing it?), but some business startup knowledge.

If you have time, please click around some. Would love to hear from you guys what you think of:

1) The concept of a marketplace for freelancers to sell content directly to publishers (with a price matrix, not bids)

2)… Continue

Posted on March 12, 2009 at 1:20pm —

Jim McBee

Got content? Sell it at smartnewsnc.com

OK, so you've been laid off, downsized, overseased, or your newspaper chain is just about on its last legs. You're starting to freelance, or maybe you have been for a long time. You've got skills, you've got contacts, you've got a backlog of stories, photos, video, etc.

What to do with all that when there are no real jobs?

We think we have one of the answers. A couple years back, I started fumbling around with an idea for an online exchange where journalists (or, really, anyone with any conten… Continue

Posted on March 10, 2009 at 1:51pm —

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