Comments on: It’s mine ya’hear. Mine. All mine: Ownership and innovation http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/ online journalism, newspaper video and digital media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Time travel http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-4923 Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Time travel Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:39:59 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-4923 [...] you want some practical suggestions about how newsroom practice should change, I like Andy Dickenson’s idea of ‘ownership’ and the idea of ‘playtime’ for journalists. Will [...] [...] you want some practical suggestions about how newsroom practice should change, I like Andy Dickenson’s idea of ‘ownership’ and the idea of ‘playtime’ for journalists. Will [...]

]]> By: Andy http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3933 Andy Tue, 27 May 2008 14:56:15 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3933 Thanks for the comments folks. Charlie - I think playtime should be a pririty no matter how structured. I would be a bit more anarchistic about what people do as long as it involves meeting people and learning a skill and see what comes out. But task would work just as well. Chris - I think that getting an open source mentality in to software and seeing the benefits is a neat first step in seeing how that mentality can work in all aspects of their business. Be more like your audience. They don't decide that they need a car and chose to design and build their own. They go to a dealer or manufacturer who does and buy what everyone else has. They will stick with the ones who serve them well, recognise their individual needs and support them. MSM is in such a great postion to straddle both those areas. They can be the audience and drive the car but they can also be the trusted voice that those who want to buy will turn to. And god! didnt I just crash that metaphor. :) Adam- I agree its a hard shift to make all in one go. Things like playtime and little internal hearts and minds victories can help turn the tide - or at least grease the wheels through the tricky parts. Craig and Rick. I agree with both of those. Maybe 'someone that people want to connect/talk to' and thanks for the link Craig very interesting Thanks for the comments folks.

Charlie - I think playtime should be a pririty no matter how structured. I would be a bit more anarchistic about what people do as long as it involves meeting people and learning a skill and see what comes out. But task would work just as well.

Chris - I think that getting an open source mentality in to software and seeing the benefits is a neat first step in seeing how that mentality can work in all aspects of their business. Be more like your audience. They don’t decide that they need a car and chose to design and build their own. They go to a dealer or manufacturer who does and buy what everyone else has. They will stick with the ones who serve them well, recognise their individual needs and support them. MSM is in such a great postion to straddle both those areas. They can be the audience and drive the car but they can also be the trusted voice that those who want to buy will turn to. And god! didnt I just crash that metaphor. :)

Adam- I agree its a hard shift to make all in one go. Things like playtime and little internal hearts and minds victories can help turn the tide - or at least grease the wheels through the tricky parts.

Craig and Rick. I agree with both of those. Maybe ’someone that people want to connect/talk to’ and thanks for the link Craig very interesting

]]> By: Craig McGinty http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3929 Craig McGinty Mon, 26 May 2008 20:16:37 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3929 Bit of an addition: Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues: Techcrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/old-media-still-needs-to-get-over-its-control-issues/ Bit of an addition:

Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues: Techcrunch
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/old-media-still-needs-to-get-over-its-control-issues/

]]> By: Adam http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3928 Adam Mon, 26 May 2008 14:36:51 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3928 You can see why publishers want to hang onto the idea of ownership, though - access to presses and lorries gave them a significant advantage in the pre-internet era, making the cost of entry to publishing high, often terminally so for new publishes. However, in the internet age, clinging to the concept of ownership is actually a competitive disadvantage. If you're developing your own publishing plat form, you're getting yourself an inferior product at a higher price. And if you're clinging to the idea of ownership of content - you're actually clinging onto something that is being steadily devalued because there's more and more of it available. But accepting this means a complete mindset shift, rather than steady change. And big organisations aren't good at that. You can see why publishers want to hang onto the idea of ownership, though - access to presses and lorries gave them a significant advantage in the pre-internet era, making the cost of entry to publishing high, often terminally so for new publishes.

However, in the internet age, clinging to the concept of ownership is actually a competitive disadvantage. If you’re developing your own publishing plat form, you’re getting yourself an inferior product at a higher price. And if you’re clinging to the idea of ownership of content - you’re actually clinging onto something that is being steadily devalued because there’s more and more of it available.

But accepting this means a complete mindset shift, rather than steady change. And big organisations aren’t good at that.

]]> By: RickWaghorn http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3927 RickWaghorn Mon, 26 May 2008 11:10:57 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3927 Craig uses 'connector'; I'll go for 'regular conversationalist'. Craig uses ‘connector’; I’ll go for ‘regular conversationalist’.

]]> By: Chris Amico http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3916 Chris Amico Mon, 26 May 2008 00:23:41 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3916 Spot on. There's a long list of tools news organizations should stop either paying for or trying to reinvent: photo sharing, blog software, CMS. Pay for people who can use what's already on the shelf--the free stuff--and who can build on those platforms. Spot on. There’s a long list of tools news organizations should stop either paying for or trying to reinvent: photo sharing, blog software, CMS. Pay for people who can use what’s already on the shelf–the free stuff–and who can build on those platforms.

]]> By: May Carnival of Journalism » Invisible Inkling http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3914 May Carnival of Journalism » Invisible Inkling Sun, 25 May 2008 13:02:26 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3914 [...] Dickinson, a UK J-prof and longtime newspaper video thinker, says getting over “the ownership thing” can free up intellectual cycles for innovation.  His advice: “Give everyone in the newsroom playtime” a la Google.  [...] [...] Dickinson, a UK J-prof and longtime newspaper video thinker, says getting over “the ownership thing” can free up intellectual cycles for innovation.  His advice: “Give everyone in the newsroom playtime” a la Google.  [...]

]]> By: Charlie Beckett http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3913 Charlie Beckett Sun, 25 May 2008 12:59:16 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3913 Nice post. I particularly like the idea of 'playtime'. I guess this is what Nick Davies means by giving journalists the chance to dig deeper, find contacts etc. Playtime for the traditional hack used to mean going to the pub at lunchtime I think another way to shape that ideas would be to 'task' the playtime (if that's not a contradiction). So you should use the playtime to: 1. learn one new online skill 2. Go physically to meet a group of your customers 3. Meet five new expert contacts. Nice post. I particularly like the idea of ‘playtime’. I guess this is what Nick Davies means by giving journalists the chance to dig deeper, find contacts etc. Playtime for the traditional hack used to mean going to the pub at lunchtime
I think another way to shape that ideas would be to ‘task’ the playtime (if that’s not a contradiction). So you should use the playtime to:
1. learn one new online skill
2. Go physically to meet a group of your customers
3. Meet five new expert contacts.

]]> By: Craig McGinty http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/05/25/its-mine-yahear-mine-all-mine-ownership-and-innovation/#comment-3912 Craig McGinty Sun, 25 May 2008 12:42:26 +0000 http://www.andydickinson.net/?p=774#comment-3912 Great piece Andy, and oh so important that newspaper bosses and journalists see how the changing demands and skills of their readers will impact upon them. And if I had to describe in one word what a journalist should be in today's modern publishing environment it would be a 'connector'. Great piece Andy, and oh so important that newspaper bosses and journalists see how the changing demands and skills of their readers will impact upon them.

And if I had to describe in one word what a journalist should be in today’s modern publishing environment it would be a ‘connector’.

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