Facebook commenting enabled on LOOKatOKC articles
We’re trying something different with our comments on the new LOOKatOKC website. Instead of using the traditional NewsOK commenting functionality, we’re going to try Facebook’s commenting.
That means users must log in with a Facebook profile to be able to comments on an article within the LOOKatOKC template.
We’re interested to hear feedback on this move. It’s a experiment, plain and simple.
- Will it increase the functionality for people commenting on LOOKatOKC articles?
- Will it help keep users engaged? Once a user submits a comment, they will receive an Facebook alert when someone replies to that comment.
- Will it increase traffic? Users will be able to post their comment directly to their Facebook feed if they choose to.
- Will it improve the tone of our comments? The theory is that comments will be attached to an online profile rather than a NewsOK profile that is often anonymous. It’s no secret what we’ve learned through the years — anonymity can create irresponsibility in online comments.
We launched this functionality on June 28. We expect to experiment with this for a few weeks and then determine its success. It might become a permanent feature. We might expand its use to other areas of NewsOK. We might just remove it.
Let us know what you think. And in the meantime, read all the other posts in recent years I’ve had about our comments.
See downloadable PDF edition for LOOKatOKC swimsuit special
The LOOKatOKC Swimsuit edition has been a pretty big hit.
It should come as no surprise that the annual swimsuit page is traditionally the most popular LOOKatOKC page each year.
I blogged about it when it launched, and I blogged about how the individual articles were leading the charge in our most-viewed articles.
But I have not yet blogged about the special iPad edition PDF that we created for users to download and take with them.
We have done some special PDF editions of special editions in the past — the 2011 Outlook edition and the special nDepth presentation for “A Thousand Hail Marys to Florida.”
This one has not been featured with our iPad edition of The Oklahoman, mostly because it’s not a product of The Oklahoman. To download this special PDF edition, just visit our 2011 LOOKatOKC Swimsuit Edition page and scroll to the bottom to see the special PDF promotion.
I recommend using your iPad to download it and saving it to your iBooks application. But you can use your desktop computer to download it, as well.
LOOKatOKC swimsuit issue has arrived
The LOOKatOKC swimsuit edition is here.
And we have a special web page devoted to the interviews, galleries and poll. You can vote for the 2011 model of the year after browsing all the photo galleries of all 14 girls that are featured this year.
What else are you going to do on slow news days in June?
Go ahead and click. You know you’re going to eventually, anyway.
