When making suggestions for improvements, please be as specific as possible. Plus, looking for archived posts? Don't forget to visit The Morgue; see the drop-down menu (screenshot, inset) toward the top of the blue rail, right.Example No. 1
- Reader says: "Journalists with real needs and concerns want to see something substantive here."
- My response: Please go back through Gannett Blog, and select 10 links reflecting the substantive content you're missing.
- Reader says: "Refocus on what you . . . accomplished up until the last few weeks or so."
- My response: Please choose the week, with exact dates, then describe why that period worked best for you.
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ReplyDeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteThanks for creating and encouraging the exchange of information at this one-stop-shopping location.
Lately there has been more finger pointing, more generally negative comments aimed at fellow employees than real information.
During the first round of layoffs this blog was the canary in the coal mine. A great benefit to all of us.
But what we need (as current employees) can come from us...not you, Jim.
We each need to contribute information/insight as we see it.
Jim, you provide the table and chairs. We must provide the food.
BROADCASTING: Please participate. Contentious negotiations are underway in Cleveland and St. Louis. Cuts continue at other stations. Ratings are falling and many station websites are no longer showing growth. Let's share that information.
How about a suggestion about the information I *would* like to see?
ReplyDelete-- The 12 percent (!!!) pay cut on the table in Indianapolis.
-- Copy desk consolidations
-- Third-quarter furloughs?
-- Anything that's *not* about how you spent $2000 on private security to show off.
Seriously. I'm a former Gannettoid. Now I work in gaming. You think the comments on this blog are threats? Log on to Xbox Live on a Friday night. It'll make these comments look like your grandma's tea party.
It's just the Internet DW theory at work. (Note: link NSFW)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
Jim, are you dense or just being difficult? You really expect people to provide examples for obvious feedback you've received from many people? This blog has turned into your personal vendetta against Gannett. Your 'tude is getting old.
ReplyDeleteNobody cares enough to find 10 links proving their point or find a date range of examples. You should be able to find that date range on your own by looking at comments of actual posts.
You don't even understand how to use a blog. You post recap after recap and waste my time with pictures of what you are doing today. I don't care what you are doing today or any other day. This is not your personal blog. If you want a personal blog then start one of those and link to it from this site. You also toot your own horn any other time another site talks about you. Again, that's another waste of time. You're basically posting something telling people that came from another site that the same site posted about you. They know that! They found you via that link! And the people that did not come from that link don't need to know either. They don't care about you getting linked. That's the interweb. It happens all the time.
I have to filter out all sorts of fluff to get to the topics I actually care about. I feel like I'm reading a newspaper.
You don't respond to direct questions so why should we think you'll take the time to respond to mere suggestions if we take all the time to make them? You sure didn't take any of our suggestions when it came to your line of questions at the shareholder's meeting.
ReplyDeleteYou have a solid track record of taking care of and doing what is good for Jim while always talking a big line about what you do for us but not really delivering.
Actually, this IS Jim's personal blog. Gannett isn't paying him. No one in the company is providing any information to him about 12% cuts on the Indy union table. So, how would he know to write about it?
ReplyDeleteA blog is an interactive medium. If you know about these things you want to read about, write about them. Jim offers up his personal observations and perspective in HIS blog, and he offers you the comment space to do the same.
BTW, how much money have either of you paid to Jim with notes requesting coverage of these things? Yeah, not enough for a week's groceries, isn't that right?
I pay Jim by giving him adviews. I'm not going to give him money so he can blow it on private security.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a personal blog. This is a blog with a set topic and reader base. The readers of this blog rarely care about Jim's life. Understanding your audience is key to being successful.