6. Keys to Our Success
• Planning
• Organizational culture: supports freedom and
experimentation
• Ability to adapt to technical challenges
• Smart staffers who "play" with Web 2.0 online in
their free time
• "Hive" mind – collaborative culture, sharing
information via wiki, meetings
• Outsourcing, and not worrying about "branding"
or "owning" the content – online or on the air
7. Technical Challenges
• Server overwhelmed by traffic first night
(30x)
• Couldn’t access our Content Management
System
• Network problems – Internet access
• Stream demand
• Challenges led to innovation
11. Twitter: Multiple Distribution
Points
• On the twitter.com/kpbsnews page
• Twitter can send text messages to people
who sign up
• Code to feed "tweets" into our site
• New Media mapping team picked up info
for Google Map