Zac Echola: How to hire the best web guy for your newspaper.com
Saturday, 29 December 2007, 20:00 via del.icio.us/martinstabe
"Creating Web sites isn’t like journalism. You can’t have a curious mind, an ability to write well and expect [to] learn the Internet in two weeks. ... Find someone who knows the Internet and teach them journalism. ... You don’t want a webmaster. You want a developer. Read More...
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1. Notes from a Teacher: Mar&hellip | 30 December 2007 at 0600
[...] Do it: How to hire the best web guy for your newspaper.com. Zac Echola lays out the plan for newspapers to get themselves online and provides solid, solid advice. Via Martin Stabe. [...]
2. Yoni Greenbaum | 30 December 2007 at 1704
Zac makes a great point. I argued in a recent post that newspapers need to start thinking like Pure Play businesses and make the appropriate investment in personnel. Can you imagine a serious online business seeking a volunteer from their own staff development work, instead of hiring a talented dedicated developer?
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