http://beatblogging.org/2009/02/10/leaderboard-for-2-9-2009-crowdsourcing-edition/ Pushing the practice of beat reporting Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://beatblogging.org/2009/02/10/leaderboard-for-2-9-2009-crowdsourcing-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-6256 10 Ways Small Businesses Can Harness Big Crowds — crowdSPRING Blog Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:20 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=1907#comment-6256 [...] other ways. For example, if you’re a freelance journalist or a copywriting agency, you could ask your communities for ideas about stories. Or if you’re a manufacturer of electronic products, you can ask your communities for ideas [...] [...] other ways. For example, if you’re a freelance journalist or a copywriting agency, you could ask your communities for ideas about stories. Or if you’re a manufacturer of electronic products, you can ask your communities for ideas [...]

]]> http://beatblogging.org/2009/02/10/leaderboard-for-2-9-2009-crowdsourcing-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-5998 Reinvent your newspaper this summer | Save the Media Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:56:08 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=1907#comment-5998 [...] Hit the street: As much as I love social media, there’s nothing like walking through the community and talking to people face to face. That shouldn’t be lost as news organizations migrate to the Web. Encourage each staffer — editors, too — to spend half a day (or half an hour) chatting it up with local folks, asking what they’d write about if they could. Then enlist their ideas, ask them to help by writing a guest blog or supplying a personal account to go with the story. All this is basic old-fashioned reporting, but now it’s called crowdsourcing. [...] [...] Hit the street: As much as I love social media, there’s nothing like walking through the community and talking to people face to face. That shouldn’t be lost as news organizations migrate to the Web. Encourage each staffer — editors, too — to spend half a day (or half an hour) chatting it up with local folks, asking what they’d write about if they could. Then enlist their ideas, ask them to help by writing a guest blog or supplying a personal account to go with the story. All this is basic old-fashioned reporting, but now it’s called crowdsourcing. [...]

]]> http://beatblogging.org/2009/02/10/leaderboard-for-2-9-2009-crowdsourcing-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-3333 Tips on Facebook, crowd sourcing and Twitter for journalists « Save the Media Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:04:33 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=1907#comment-3333 [...] sourcing: If you have no idea what crowd sourcing is or how it could work for journalists, you must read this .... The post gives simple examples where journalists are asking readers for story ideas or for their [...] [...] sourcing: If you have no idea what crowd sourcing is or how it could work for journalists, you must read this …. The post gives simple examples where journalists are asking readers for story ideas or for their [...]

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