Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Make a story archive with Dipity

When a newsroom starts cranking out multiple stories under the banner of a single topic or news event over a period of time, it's good practice to organize that into an 'archive' for your readers. That way, readers have the option to go as 'deep' into the story as they want. Readers get easier access to more of your related information, and thus it generates more online traffic for your website. #WINNING.

We've toyed with this link-thinking at the Register the past few years on some of our larger stories, such as the tragic triple-slaying of the Petit family in Cheshire and the slaying of Annie Le.

Today, I used Dipity to archive our developing coverage of the East Coast Rapist capture, and eventual trial. And I like the way it came out. It's clean, it's elegant, it's attractive. It's an interactive story archive. Check it out.

What are some other really solid uses of Dipity you've seen from local news organizations? Post your links in the comments.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hey that is a great use of Dipity!

Thanks for posting and we're thrilled that you liked it.

-Steve, Dipity Community Manager
Twitter: @dipity
email: steve@dipity.com

March 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM 
Anonymous Andy Stettler said...

Chris, you've caught the timeline fever! I like that dipity has list formats too so the user can create a timeline and then embed it as a list of events in chronological order.

Whenever we create timelines at The Reporter we create a bit.ly bundle of links pertaining to our stories so that we have an organized source for metrics. Check out the second half of my post here for ideas - http://bit.ly/guPoy1 - Keep up the great work man!

March 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM 

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