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Mary Lou Fulton

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Mary Lou Fulton

Inspiration: The Secret Sauce for Printcasting

We're underway with alpha testing for Printcasting, our Knight News Challenge-funded project at The Bakersfield Californian. It's great to see everything coming together! The alpha period will give us feedback on how well we've done in presenting the basic functionality of the product. But even if every single thing about Printcasting is perfect, that won't mean it will be embraced. The secret sauce for all online self-expression is inspiration -- why would you want to become a Printcaster, anyway? Getting people to try a new online product is an uphill battle, given how many web sites and social media tools...

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In the end, there's no real trick or black magic to making news valuable: it's about providing readers with what they want to read, as opposed to what publishers think they should be reading.

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