American Community Journals Discovers Value of Slack with YESEO
Founder & Publisher Ken Knickerbocker and his team at American Community Journals, initially hesitant to embrace Slack, have come to appreciate its value, all thanks to discovering YESEO.
He heard from Jay Allred who recommended the Newsroom Robots podcast to him. “There's a podcast I listen to, it's called Newsroom Robots,” Knickerbocker said. “I heard Jay [Allred] interviewed there and he said, ‘you've got to listen to [Ryan Restivo]’.”
What he heard was a practical solution that could help his small newsroom, serving the greater Philadelphia region on five different platforms, including sites serving Bucks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, and the city of Philadelphia.
“[YESEO] is what took us into Slack, and now we use it across the company,” Knickerbocker said. “YESEO made us look at Slack and [see] there's a lot of different things that we could use this for.”
When using YESEO’s “Suggest Headline” button, it is drawing from your story and using Generative AI to create a variety of headline ideas for users like those at American Community Journals. He says many times he will look for inspiration on a story title and he’ll ask YESEO to see what it will come up with.
“What YESEO does is saves me time and sparks my creativity,” Knickerbocker said. “If I'm not happy with a headline my writer has created, I can go to Ryan’s tool, and YESEO can give me five suggestions.”
“Even if one of the five suggestions isn’t perfect, it takes me in the right direction. I can take what I’ve already developed, mix it with something suggested, and come up with a far better title than I could have written on my own.”
He has been working to introduce YESEO to all his editors, who cover a variety of topics across each of the counties in the Philadelphia area.
“YESEO’s five suggestions always have a good option that I can work with,” Knickerbocker said. “They always point us in a new, better, SEO-friendly direction.”