The document discusses how news organizations can encourage user-generated content to engage readers as participants. It describes how Origo and A-pressen have facilitated this transition by allowing users to publish content publicly or privately tagged with locations. This user-generated content is then filtered and sometimes extracted for newspapers. Examples show how communities in Norway have used the platform to share local news and events, engaging many readers in the process.
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Make The Public Work With You
1. Make The Public Work With You
How to encourage user-created content
Bente Kalsnes - Origo Espen Systad - A-pressen
Communication Advisor. Head of Social Media
@benteka @revesjef
http://origo.no/bentekalsnes http://origo.no/espen
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4. Transition READER PARTICIPANT
? Participants bring more people than readers (they?re spreading their
contributions (comments, images, events, blogs, etc) to their network = more readers).
? Participant - closer relation then a reader (easy for the newsroom to get in
touch with the participant, can build stronger relation than a random reader. But
newsroom has to give something back to the participant – attention, space in print, take
them seriously)
? Participants - more info for product development (we know more about
what the registered user is interested in than the random reader)
? Think of all the news stories you will miss if you don’t know what your readers/
participants are interested in and talking about!
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5. How Origo works
? The users publish texts, comments,
pictures and events.
? All content is tagged with location.
? The users decide if the content is
private or public.
? Public content can be extracted to
other contexts e.g. our newspapers.
? We ?lter the content based on
location and quality.
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6. J?lster
Sogn og fjordane
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7. Hello.
I’m from J?lster.
I have a long story and a
quick question.
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25. The result:
2 front pages in Firda
16 printed pages
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26. Wooo - we are in the news !
Those people in J?lster always
think they are something special.
But we from Fj?rland are
special too. Lets show them
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27. Ja. Let’s gather all tractors in Fj?rland and lift round bales!
.. and let’s put people on the bales.
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34. A-pressen’s 50 newspapers have
470.000 subscribers
and
167.000 registered Origo-users
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35. ..... and those
167.000 users produce 7-8 times more content
than our 2.800 employees do.
30 - 40.000 stories,
pictures, comments
and events weekly.
5.000 stories,
pictures and
comments
digitally each
week.
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36. The ?rst years we used Origo to strengthen web editions.
Now we use Origo to also revitalize the print editions.
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37. A-pressen produces approx. 300.000
print pages of editorial content a year.
1 of 10 pages will carry content that
originate from our Origo-readers.
Why?
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38. Position challenged by social media
family notices
local news
greetings
The ingredients
of the local
local
newspaper.
local arena
market-
for debate
place
Position challenged by social media
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43. Stig: - I want to start a fund-raising to ?ll the
public pool. Tomorrow my family will deliver
10 liters of water to the city council, and I
challenge all other families to do the same.
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44. 36 seconds to get
in touch with Stig
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51. Make The
Public Work
With You:
How to encourage user-created content
CASE ORIGO.NO AND A-PRESSEN
Bente Kalsnes, @benteka - Origo
Espen systad, @revesjef - A-pressen
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