The “2,000 heads are better than one” session is underway!
- Derrick Ashong, The Stream/Al Jazeera
- Matt Wells, Guardian News and Media
- Amanda Michel, ProPublica
Hashtags: #ona11, #crowdsource
2,000 Heads Are Better Than One: Effective Crowdsourcing
Discover which stories are best told by crowdsourcing, the tools that work for soliciting and managing information and how to build and manage a network. Walk away with practical tips about crowdsourcing apps for your newsroom and best practices for employing crowdworkers for data journalism tasks.
Session Updates (17)
The Guardian’s call for help researching the Sarah Palin emails.
@tscurrie
Tim CurrieGuardian’s @MatthewWells re: crowdsourcing Palin emails – Important to 1) make it a game 2) show what was accomplished #ona11 #crowdsource
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@rickhirsch
rickhirschSarah Palin emails were a good crowd source experiment, “fell flat” as story. #ONA11 #crowdsource
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@NYT_JenPreston
Jennifer Preston“If people ask you a question it is rude not to answer,” says @matthewwells about user questions in comments #ona11 #ona2000 #crowdsource
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@tscurrie
Tim CurrieGuardian’s @MatthewWells: Imp. for all crowdsource initiatives: give examples, be clear about goals & give examples #ona11 #crowdsource
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@VOAHutch
Davin Hutchins@matthewwells IMPORTANT: essential to have developers in the newsroom with the journalists. this is the key #crowdsource#ona11
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According to @MatthewWells, The Guardian live blogs have three times the number of return visitors.
@VOAHutch
Davin HutchinsNice crowdsourced 9/11 memory project @guardian @MatthewWellshttp://ow.ly/6DPCL#ona11 #crowdsource
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Derrick Ashong, The Stream/Al Jazeera: the idea was to bridge old and new media; they began working on it in the fall in 2010. It was in the works before the Arab Spring (not a reaction to it).
Here’s what @Derrickashong is talking about: stream.aljazeera.com
@petersmeg
Meghan Peters“If we help our audience raise their level of sophistication, we’ll get a better stream,” @ashong#crowdsource#ONA11
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Matt Wells, Derrick Ashong
@boyreporter
Ron Nurwisah.@NYT_JenPreston I also love how NPR’s @allsongs uses SoundCloud to get stories http://t.co/is7byemD#ona11 #crowdsource#ona2000
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Derrick Ashong (@ashong) made videos explaining how to use @storify so that readers could submit content. More from Nieman Journalism Lab on Ashong and The Stream.
