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The Voice of OC needs to come clean on its funding
Introducing our new Anaheim, Fullerton and Irvine blogs
We have launched several new blogs in the past few weeks, including New Anaheim, which launched today, New Fullerton and the Irvine News Blog. These join our family of news blogs that includes the popular New Santa Ana, OC Politics Blog, the OC Disney Blog and OC Safety News.
Our latest blogs combine the features of news aggregate websites with the civic activism that is the hallmark of our New Santa Ana blog. Our feeds include local news sources, civic institutions, trade associations and local government agencies. Read more…
New O.C. Register publisher continues to improve his newspaper
O.C. Register Publishe Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz, Freedom Communications President.
The new owner of the O.C. Register, Aaron Kushner, is aggressively adding new writers and improving his newspaper. But is this the right thing to do with the ongoing emergence of digital news?
The O.C. Register has a smart phone app but it doesn’t tie in well to social media. They do however use Facebook comments on their articles now. But while the O.C. Register does have a number of internal blogs this is not an area that Kushner appears to be all that focused on. Read more…
How social media helped Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido win again this year
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido faced a serious challenge two years ago when local criminal defense attorney Alfredo Amezcua raised and spent a quarter million dollars trying to defeat him. We created a campaign website for Pulido that year and we launched a Facebook page. However the battle between Amezcua and Pulido was settled largely in the mail and via precinct walking.
This year Pulido once again faced another well-funded opponent in Santa Ana Council Member David Benavides. And this time the contest was expanded further into the realm of social media. Benavides had three Facebook pages including a personal page, his Council Member page and his mayoral campaign page; plus he also had a campaign website. Read more…
Political candidates need a social media plan
If you are running for political office you need to consider including social media in your campaign plan. Signs and fliers simply aren’t enough to get you elected.
Depending on campaign mailers is expensive and slate mailers really aren’t effective as there are too many of them and they sell their spots to the highest bidder, undermining whatever it is they claim to believe in. Read more…
Pedroza starts the New Year by launching a new Orange County political blog
Our President, Art Pedroza, launched his new blog, OC Politics Blog, on January 1, of this New Year, taking the entire Orange County blogosphere by surprise.
The OC Weekly quickly jumped on the story, as their lead investigative reporter, R. Scott Moxley, welcomed Pedroza back into countywide political blogging:
For seven years up to 2010, Libertarian-leaning Art Pedroza often dominated Orange County’s political blogosphere by breaking news and offering biting commentary on area politicians, journalists and activists. Read more…
The O.C. Register’s Food Frenzy reporter loves El Pollo Norteño’s chicken!
The O.C. Register’s Food Frenzy reporter, Jeff Overley, visited one of our clients, El Pollo Norteño, this week – and he loved not only their food, but also their blog, which we designed and continue to maintain.
Here are a few excerpts from Overley’s article:
It’s hard out here for a hole-in-the-wall. These restaurants are run by moms and pops. They tend to have unenviable locations. Money for advertising is nil. Read more…
Are O.C.’s political blogs still a force to be reckoned with?
Are Orange County’s political blogs still a potent force in local politics? Some of them have apparently already peaked and are now headed downhill, while others are continuing to develop new readership.
The Orange Juice blog, which was Orange County’s first political blog, has changed substantially since Vern Nelson took over as their Editor/Publisher late last year. But they remain Orange County’s only multi-partisan blog, with a bullpen of Republican and Democratic bloggers. Their traffic has remained fairly consistent since Nelson took over. They are averaging over 40,000 visits a month, along with over 70,000 page views. Read more…
Recap of the 2011 Social Media Day event at the O.C. Register
I attended the 2011 Mashable Social Media Day event at the O.C. Register on Thursday afternoon, June 30. I believe this was the second such event hosted by the Register.
They had a full agenda, including fifteen minute talks by a number of speakers from the social media industry.
The agenda included: Read more…
Blogs aren’t dead yet!
It looks, thankfully, that reports that the blog is dead are greatly exaggerated.
You probably saw the headlines over the last few days that blogging has declined, a phenomenon attributed to the fact that blogging is not as popular an activity as it once was, especially among young people, those aged 12 to 17. The research that led to some of the premature obituaries comes from the estimable Pew Internet and American Life Project; the research also pointed out that, others of us, like those positively elderly who are 34 and up, are actually becoming more likely to blog. Among 34- to 45-year-olds, the report said blogging is up, on a per person basis, by 6%; among those 46 to 55 it increased by 5% , and among 65- to 73-year-olds, it increased by 2%. Read more…
