Paul Lewis is a journalist and he knows very well the Net. He knows that the Net is not his enemy but instead it could become his best allied.
Now Paul Lewis is heading a special projects team at The Guardian with license to crowdsource. Guardian's sources say they will find new angles on breaking new stories, including using multimedia and crowdsourcing.
Will that be the prototype of the
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Released on the first of September the new press release announce editorial guidelines for credit and attribution.
PR starts basically giving credit to information coming from web and social contributors as an important element of the journalism in the Web era. So important role that AP decided to rule how, when and where credit will be given and published to contributors.
Is this another s Read More »
PR starts basically giving credit to information coming from web and social contributors as an important element of the journalism in the Web era. So important role that AP decided to rule how, when and where credit will be given and published to contributors.
Is this another s Read More »
Will Crowdsourcing kill the news star?
Posted by gio 1 day 4 hours ago (http://www.theaustralian.com.au)
Futurist Ross Dawson on The Australian about crowdsourcing's impact on newspapers as we know it today.
Mr Dawson predicted journalism would be "increasingly crowdsourced'' to "hoardes of amateurs overseen by professionals''.
Essentially journalism will be still there but roles of professionals and contributors will change in weight, timing and relevance of news will be considerably i Read More »
Mr Dawson predicted journalism would be "increasingly crowdsourced'' to "hoardes of amateurs overseen by professionals''.
Essentially journalism will be still there but roles of professionals and contributors will change in weight, timing and relevance of news will be considerably i Read More »
Forrester Research: US Consumers Are Willing Co-Creators
Posted by gio 25 days ago (http://www.forrester.com)
No excuses for companies (nearly 50%) not using social media to interact directly with their customers yet.
US consumers like to be engaged, 61% of the 3,990 interviewed answered positively to the question if they would be interested in providing input to help design and build new products or improve current products.
63% declares their contribution is dependent upon receiving some form of comp Read More »
US consumers like to be engaged, 61% of the 3,990 interviewed answered positively to the question if they would be interested in providing input to help design and build new products or improve current products.
63% declares their contribution is dependent upon receiving some form of comp Read More »
Crowdsourcing for a new ostracism era?
Posted by gio 26 days ago (http://www.ibtimes.com)
Few weeks after the wikileaks case showing how anonymous access to the net can enable crowdsourced publishing of classified documents this article of International Business Times reports the interest of SEC towards crowdsourcing.
SEC is understaffed so what's better to allow everybody to report a suspect company or finance operation? Multiple claims against the same subject would raise the prob Read More »
SEC is understaffed so what's better to allow everybody to report a suspect company or finance operation? Multiple claims against the same subject would raise the prob Read More »
August edition of McKinsey Quarterly is dedicated to "Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch". Four of them belong to the big Crowdsourcing family:
- Distributed cocreation moves into the mainstream: the power of the crowds used inside large enterprise for user generated content, collaborative support, text translation and much more.
- Making the network the or
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Crowdsourcing journalism: natural disaster coverage
Posted by gio 73 days ago (http://newsdurhamregion.com)
Interesting point of view of a journalist.
During the recent earthquake in Ontario and Quebec several articles on the local and national news papers were written starting from stories posted by thousands of people on social networks.
The definition the journalist gives of crowdsourcing is so "using a large group of people to get the big picture" instead of man-on-the-street interviews.
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During the recent earthquake in Ontario and Quebec several articles on the local and national news papers were written starting from stories posted by thousands of people on social networks.
The definition the journalist gives of crowdsourcing is so "using a large group of people to get the big picture" instead of man-on-the-street interviews.
Also Read More »
Crowdsourcing journalism: Vocus acquires Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
Posted by gio 81 days ago (http://vocuspr.vocus.com)
Help A Reporter Out, best known as HARO, has been acquired by Vocus, a NASDAQ floated public relations management company.
HARO community composed by 30,000 reporters and bloggers and more that 100,000 small business and public relations professionals has been very active in the news crowdsourcing. Read More »
HARO community composed by 30,000 reporters and bloggers and more that 100,000 small business and public relations professionals has been very active in the news crowdsourcing. Read More »
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