How One Man Used WordPress to Launch a Site Covering Hurricane Sandy
When Mel Taylor saw Hurricane Sandy coming, he saw an opportunity to launch BrigantineNow.com, a website that aggregates news focused on covering the Jersey Shore community of Brigantine, which sits north of Atlantic City. “I covered that horrible storm from a Dunkin’ Donuts and my house in Philadelphia. Nobody knew that," said Taylor, founder of Mel Taylor Media, at America East 2013.
When Mel Taylor saw Hurricane Sandy coming, he saw an opportunity to launch BrigantineNow.com, a website that aggregates news focused on covering the Jersey Shore community of Brigantine, which sits north of Atlantic City.
“I covered that horrible storm from a Dunkin’ Donuts and my house in Philadelphia. Nobody knew that. I just knew where I was getting those sources from. I was gathering it all together, and I was optimizing it, putting keywords in, optimizing photos, the videos, all that,” said Taylor, founder of Mel Taylor Media, at America East 2013, a recent gathering of newspaper technology and operations executives in Hershey, Pa.
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