Kittens stuck in car engine top YDR video of the week.
1. Kittens, woman stuck in car
3. Smarty fans
4. Wildcats wake up for first district victory
5. Hepler, Toomey lead West York to YAIAA baseball title
7. Changes to small games of chance law
8. York Suburban wins YAIAA championship
Here’s an email I sent to my staff and editors at York Daily Record/Sunday News today. I thought it might also be helpful for readers of my blog.
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We have some upcoming events that we might want to consider curating social media content. The street rods and upcoming graduations are both great opportunities. In the future, I think that one of the jobs to be done will be this type of curation, perhaps adapting all or part of it for use in print.
Matt and I have been setting up geofeeds of venues in the area. So far we’ve done:
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I did this quick Penn State slideshow by taking an RSS feed of photos on my Penn State Pinterest board and adding it to Storify. After publishing it on Storify, I added “/slideshow” to end of url. Just like magic, I had my slideshow. The embed code is the last slide. Check it out.
1. Meet entertainment editor Pat Abdalla. Pat is in charge of all things FlipSide-related, but he also blogs about baseball via Southpaw. He lives in West Manchester Township and graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Journalism – minors in political science and American studies.
2. Learn about members of Penn State football’s 2013 recruiting class. Check out the new recruiting pages on the Nittany Nation blog
3. Check out our newest Facebook page, Wheels of York County. Each spring, summer and fall, York County is home to numerous auto events, the most famous is the Street Rod Nationals East held each June.
Also, check out the Pinterest page of Cool vehicles around York County.
Some new things from the digital world:
1. Twitter announced it will start sending weekly email digests that “feature the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter.”
2. You can now pin any photo or tweet you see on Storify.
3. Here’s help for Twitter users who want to keep their tweets more private.
As I continue to explore Geofeedia, I come up with more and more tips and ideas of how to use it. Big thanks to chief technology officer Scott Mitchell, who is probably sick of hearing from me (Sorry, Scott), but has been uber helpful.
For example, I think it could be used to find social media generated during events at various venues. It occurred to me, though, that it would be a hassle setting up the venue over and over.
Geofeeds to the rescue.
I’ve only just began to explore Geofeedia (see my previous post), but I’ve asked chief technology officer Scott Mitchell to share some tips.
One thing I asked Scott was if I put the exact address in the search bar if I still had to use the circle or polygon tool to define the area. Here’s what he had to say:
“The address search uses a geolocation database. It matches your address to one of 100,000s of known areas that are mapped as rectangles. When it finds a match for your address (or place name), it draws the rectangle on the map and executes a Geofeedia search within the rectangle.”
So my next question was whether it would be better to use the circle to better define that rectangle? His response:
Totally doing happy dance. Now you can pin tweets and photos from Storify. YAY! Here’s the skinny.
EPIC: Here’s how to pin any photo – or any tweet! – you see on @Storify bit.ly/JeVqZC cc #JRC #DFM #MNG #DigitalFirst
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) May 15, 2012
Hi! I'm Buffy. I'm not a vampire slayer but I do love sinking my teeth into social media -- from Facebook to Foursquare. I hope you join me as I explore the digital landscape and have some fun along the way.
