The Linchpen

UPDATE: Watch the presentation here

• http://budurl.com/3nnl

This is cross-posted at CoPress‘ site.

Tune into CoPress‘ Mogulus channel, embedded below, on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CST) to see Joey Baker, Albert Sun and I speak as part of BarCamp NewsInnovation at the University of Missouri.

Unfortunately, no one from CoPress could travel to Mizzou, but we’ll be there virtually.

[I have removed the embedded Mogulus player to reduce page load time.]

Be sure to participate in the chat and ask questions – we’ll answer as many as possible.

Please share the link via Twitter, Facebook, IM, e-mail, etc. Thanks!

Part of my role as community manager is to be the figurative face of CoPress. Now it’s seems as though that is being taken literally.

David Cohn, aka Digidave, interviewed me about our humble little group last weekend. The video was originally posted here on Thursday:

• Coeds Create CoPress

I’m really more of a behind-the-camera kinda guy (with the exception of Mad Journalism), but this was for a good cause.

Also, check out Daniel Bachhuber‘s post providing some additional context to the interview:

• Greg Linch on CoPress

Recent CoPress news:

• This Week in CoPress: Scott Karp of Publish2
• Liftoff: First paper to partner with CoPress goes live, open-source
• A tasty organic discussion: “Investing in Online & the Future of Journalism”

One year ago today I posted:

• Top 10 list of tips for journalism students

By a factor of four, this has become the most popular page/post on my site with more than 2,200 pageviews (Sidenote: I began using Google Analytics on Jan. 15, 2008 and have been blogging since Nov. 24 – yes, I missed my first blogging anniversary).

I don’t want to navel-gaze, but I’d like to use this as a quick lesson in the power of the Web, specifically Google and linking. Some of my inspiration for publishing these figures comes from Mindy McAdams and William (Mark) Hartnett, so I’ll tip my hat.

Links to the “top 10″ post have appeared on several sites, including this recent post by Suzanne Yada:

• Resolutions for journalism students, part I: Become invaluable

Suzanne’s post was linked by a number of people, including Jeff Jarvis on BuzzMachine, Jay Rosen on Twitter and Ryan Sholin on Invisible Inkling. As a result, her blog became the No. 3 entrance source for my post. Powerful stuff, eh?

With the exception of zero pageviews from Aug. 17 to Sept. 6 (I have no idea why), the post has been viewed almost daily. Traffic increased after Sept. 7 and has been up markedly Suzanne’s post on Jan. 1.

The top traffic sources (by pageviews, including those temporarily under a different URL) were:

1. Google (1,318)
2. Direct (228)
3. suzanneyada.com (151)
4. mediageeks.ning.com, aka Wired Journalists (55)
5. digitaljournalism.org (51)
6. Yahoo (38)

(Note: A link to the post is included in my blog sidebar under “top posts,” which also drives traffic)

Social media  sources:

11. Publish2 (20)
15. Del.icio.us (16) [+ 4 listed under source No. 29]
16. StumbleUpon (16) [+ 13 while temporarily under a different URL]
22. Twitter (6)
27. Facebook (5)

Being such a big fan of Twitter, I’m a little disappointed by that number. But it’s important to note that this post came only one month into my experience with Twitter when I had no Twitterfeed set up and relatively few followers.

Moving on…

Fellow SEO nerds, take note of the top five keywords:

1. journalism tips (150)
2. advice for journalism students (68)
3. top 10 journalism colleges (44)
4. tips for journalism students (30)
5. tips on journalism (30)

Conclusion: If you want a post to have a long shelf life (now I’m channeling Pat Thornton), make it timeless and make sure it’s got good SEO juice.

Another method is to save links to your most noteworthy posts on your social networks. For example, I manually shared the link on Publish2, Delicious and Wired Journalists. Also, my blog is included in the Wired Journalist Feedstream, which includes these cool people.

Finally, make friends. They’ll give you link love. And maybe they’ll get some link love that helps you too.

PS. Don’t forget to check out the original post:

• Top 10 list of tips for journalism students

I’ve been going almost non-stop since Beyond Bootcamp ended Saturday night, so I haven’t had much time to reflect completely or summarize my thoughts yet.

Lauren Whiddon, a photographer and me riding in the back of pick-up while shooting video of the Special Olympics torch run on Jan. 13. Here we are driving on the McArthur Causeway over Biscayne Bay. Photo by Andrea Ballocchi.

So, what have I been up to and what’s coming up?

• Monday: GRE
• Tuesday: shooting the Special Olympics torch run on Miami Beach and in downtown Miami, cutting footage back at UM
• Wednesday: conference calls about CoPress (two; one by phone and one by Skype) and ONA (phone), as well as being interviewed on Skype for a non-UM journalism professor/newspaper adviser’s master’s thesis
• Thursday: working on getting my ideas added to a new undergraduate journalism class starting in the fall; livestreaming a panel discussion after a screening of One Water (the screening and panel are part the University of Miami’s Global Business Forum)
• Friday: Bryan Murley and I are recording a CoPress podcast with Publish2 co-founder and CEO Scott Karp (@scottkarp)

Also, an update on the videos from my Beyond Bootcamp livestreaming: the School of Communication post them soon and, hopefully, offer them as video podcasts on iTunes. I’ll be sure to blog and tweet the link when they’re online.

In the mean time, check out the videos Kristen Taylor (@kthread), online community manager at the Knight Foundation, posted:

• Beyond Bootcamp: Journalism and Ethics Panel

Today is the final day of Beyond Bootcamp and, therefore, we have our last lunch speaker:

• Rob Covey, senior vice president for content/design at National Geographic digital media

The livestream will run from 12:20-2 p.m. Watch at our new location this time:

• mogulus.com/knightcenter

Follow all Beyond Bootcamp tweets:

• http://www.greglinch.com/multimedia/beyondbootcamp

Please share the livestream and other links on Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, IM, etc.