Wednesday, December 5, 2007

UTURF Part Five


So UTURF is on the front left burner for a right-handed person. UTURF became one of those things where you know it has to get done but by what means and with what time? I kept getting updates and people were “writing reviews” which is essentially the content creation that we needed on order to get UTURF up and running. All that we needed was 10 people to write 50 reviews about anything in Chicago, each review is 50 words or less, and once the sight is launched they need to get 10 friends with .edu web addresses to sign up. That is what their contract stated (Ill post it on the blog), in order to get paid $500 for their efforts.

All the people that offered their services to UTURF were writers. Generally, when I think back on my experience working at newspapers, and having friends who are journalists…the most important guideline that they must follow to be successful is meeting a deadline. Not to mention…the deadline was not some very short-term thing. They had more than 3 months to write essentially 4,000 words.

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