The administrators of REALNEO (I believe Jeff Schuler, Jeff Buster and myself) received an email yesterday, via the contact link on REALNEO, from John Kroll. Mr. Kroll is the "Director of Training and Digital Development for The Plain Dealer". That he contacted us in this way, regarding the matter he raises, clearly demonstrates a problem with the Cleveland Plain Dealer operating in the New Economy - they consider themselves above our community, yet are trolls.
Mr. Kroll, "Director of Training and Digital Development for The Plain Dealer", emails the administrators of the free, open social network REALNEO - which he surely knows well - to coach us in the content management of one of our members, rather than set up an account and communicate directly in the community with any and all members.
One would think Mr. Kroll would long have been a member of this community - a personal friend to us all - and long made clear how the PD would like to share insight with our members and the world - we are free and open, and many PD staffers are members and do post here.
Mr. Kroll, I am not trying to be flip or insulting, but as "Director of Training and Digital Development for The REALNEO" (if I may assume that title for a moment), I invite you to join your community and communicate directly with our administrators and all the people of real NEO here. That will not bankrupt your newspaper.
Regarding the matter you raise below, that "This item: "http://realneo.us/content/nice-work-mr-puente [1]" reproduces
entirely a Plain Dealer story", I agree and I do not encourage that practice. As we are a not-for-profit coop owned social network, that does not receive any revenues for traffic, I do not know that we are outside the new economy law, but I would like that issue discussed here, among all members.
Mr. Kroll and all at the PD, please feel free to join REALNEO and the discussion.
We are all real NEO.
We are the New Media... welcome.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <jkroll [at] plaind [dot] com>
Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Subject: [Info, Ideas, Feedback ~ REALNEO] reprinting Plain Dealer story
To: info [at] realneo [dot] us
John Kroll sent a message using the contact form at
http://realneo.us/contact [2].
This item: "http://realneo.us/content/nice-work-mr-puente [1]" reproduces
entirely a Plain Dealer story. You're welcome to quote parts of it and link
to the rest, of course.
Links:
[1] http://realneo.us/../../../../../content/nice-work-mr-puente
[2] http://realneo.us/../../../../../contact