OJR: Top Mistakes Made by New Online Publishers

Authored by robert on December 14, 2006 - 8:19am.
Here is a list of mistakes often made by new online publishers as identified and explained by Robert Niles, Editor of Online Journalism Review, posted today on OJR.org:
  1. Doing it for the money
  2. Casting too broad a net
  3. Not being humble
  4. Taking spam personally
  5. Telling the world what you are doing, before you actually do it
  6. Throwing money at your site
  7. Using misleading traffic numbers
  8. Unrealistic goals
The full article can be read here.

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Add image
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><br><p> <b> <i> <img> <hr>
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.