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Engagement — one of three legs needed to support successful social media projects. (The others are inclusion and aggregation.) What does this mean for journalists, for news organizations?

Paul Gillin, a social media consultant and former technology journalist, says journalists have to play “to people’s particular interests” if we hope to engage the public. I know, that doesn’t sound very new or different. But think on it for a moment:

… the special interests that they have in what’s going on in their town, on their block, in their school system, in their local businesses, at the chamber of commerce, in the park system, in their local museums, that’s what gets people really excited, that which touches them at a very personal level ().

Some newspapers still put these things front and center, focus their resources on these, and perhaps hold their circulation numbers steady. It used to be the way newspapers were structured, and it’s part of what changed as newspapers were bought up by big corporations and clumped into feedlots like so many over-doped beef cattle. Newspapers stopped covering the day-to-day factual matters that concern people — the details about where they work, live, attend schools and churches/mosques/temples. As circulation numbers were pumped up by expanding the supposed “coverage area,” what really happened was that less and less of generic cialis to people was, in fact, covered.

Then the public no longer experienced a sense of engagement with the newspaper.

Over the weekend, Mark Glaser tweeted a list of . His No. 4 is: “Find out what the community wants in real face to face meetings, not focus groups. Then do what they want.”

That struck a chord with me, because every time I have watched a newspaper focus group, I felt like it never got at what people truly think and feel. The artificiality of the focus group affects what the participants say, and in the end, it’s just not the real deal. It isn’t that they’re lying, but they are trying to make a good impression — not only on the people asking the questions but also on the other participants, who are strangers to them. Also, the questions asked lead the results into places that the newspaper already wants to go — or already does go. The potential for hearing something actually generic cialis in a focus group is, in my opinion, pretty minuscule.

So, back to this idea of generic cialis. How should journalists really and truly engage with members of the public?

1. generic cialisAnd not just poor people, or criminals, or addicts. Make an effort to find a regular, run-of-the-mill working or professional person who is quite different from you in some distinctive way — maybe an immigrant (your M.D. maybe, or your dentist); the woman who rings up your groceries at the giant supermarket; some guy in a bar whose boots are white with cement dust; a teacher in a public school that your kids have never attended. Don’t talk to them about their job — ask them about their life. What is the city doing wrong, or right? What would they change if they could? What have they been curious about lately? What has frustrated them like crazy?
2. generic cialisJohn Robinson of the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record that when he asked readers for suggestions for investigative stories, he received six within a day. He didn’t say whether they were good ideas, but I’ll bet that at least a couple had some potential. And even if they aren’t suitable for a full investigative treatment, they let him know what people are concerned about.
3. generic cialisI don’t know what it is about journalists, but as a group we seem to have a kind of arrogance/insecurity aspect to our personality. We come off as arrogant and kind of know-it-all and even brusque to many others who are not journalists. Among ourselves, we are comfortable with this personality and tend to overlook it. (We’re used to it.) I think even some of the best interviewers can strike their subjects as somewhat uncaring, some of the time. After all, we are doing a job, we have a deadline, we need to finish this thing and get on to the next one. But if you want to learn something new and unexpected, you’ve got to be less in a hurry, less focused on the short-term goal, the finish line, and more open to randomness. You have to honestly believe that the average person you’re chatting up might be able to tell you something you don’t already know — and you need to have the patience to allow that something to come out on its own.

Journalists can do some of this online more easily than they could have in the pre-Internet days, and some of them are doing it already, through blogs and other means. But I think it might help a lot of news organizations if they made a serious commitment to engagement, if they swallowed some of their professional “we know what news is” attitude and said, instead, “We need to find out what people really want to know about their communities.”

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