Tools of the Trade - by David Cohn on Monday, May 26, 2008 15:37 - View Comments

Create Your Own Reddit – Get the Wisdom of Your Crowd

Reddit has just bee redesigned. Not only is the site easier to use – but it’s easier to take advantage of the tools. Now you can create your own Reddit.

You chose the topic: Your beat
You choose who is invited: Can be public, restricted (anyone can view, but only contributors you choose can submit), or private (only contributors can view and submit).

Let’s say your beat is pharmaceuticals. Perhaps you have a rabid audience of people who know the industry already. They don’t need you to give them the latest news, what they want from you is analysis.

But to find out what the latest news is – they can help. With a custom Reddit you are getting the latest links, and a sense of how important they are as deemed by your community. That’s better than your personal RSS reader any day.


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About BeatBlogging.org

BeatBlogging.org was a grant-funded journalism project that studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools to improve beat reporting. It ran for about two years, ending in the fall of 2009.

New content is occasionally produced here by the this project's former editor Patrick Thornton. The site is still up and will remain so because many journalists and professors still use and link to the content. BeatBlogging.org offers a fascinating glimpse into the former stages of journalism and social media. Today it's expected that journalists and journalism organization use social media, but just a few years ago that wasn't the case.

About the Author of this post
David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us and former editor of BeatBlogging.Org.