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Upgrading the Breaking News City site with Twitter List Widgets
Patrick KitanoDomus Consulting Group
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Breaking News City sites aggregate the best Twitter feeds in each city and display them categorically
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First, start with an existing Breaking News city site
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Create a Twitter feed based on your city or community name
Twitter.com/BreakingSFNews
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Next, create Twitter Lists* of the best local Twitterers by category
* Don’t know what a Twitter List is? See reference slideshow at end of this presentation.
This is what your community wants to
see…
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Your Twitter Lists aggregate the best Twitter feeds for events, sports and food, etc. in the city
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How do you find good Twitter feeds for your Lists?
Click “Find People”
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Search for your city name, and find local Twitterers
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Add good Twitter feeds to the appropriate List
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Tip:
Find a good local Twitter List and add those Tweets to your Lists
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Within an hour, you should have developed a local Twitter resource that your community will follow
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Next, place those Twitter Lists you just created into the Breaking News site using a “widget”
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You now need to build Twitter List widgets
Go to www.Twitter.com/goodies and click Widgets
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Create a List Widget
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Confirm the Settings for your List category and widget title
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Customize Preferences and check “Loop results” for scrolling. We like 4 seconds per tweet interval
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Create a color scheme that matches the Breaking News website.
Be sure to note the color setting code and copy this for each widget you build
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Size the widget.
For Breaking News sites 500x500 works
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Copy the widget embed code
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And paste directly into the html format of the web page
(example, Wordpress)
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(Be sure to turn off the old scrolling function of the Breaking News site)
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Repeat for all the categories.
Build many categories to provide a comprehensive Breaking News presence in your city
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The Breaking News site plus its Twitter feed provide a unique, compelling local community news service.
And they are easy to set up…
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Related slideshow:
Find at www.slideshare.net/pkitano
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Domus Consulting Group develops automated award winning community engagement systems
Patrick KitanoManaging [email protected](415) 573-2481
Breaking News Network winner of “Most Innovative
Media 2009”