Newsitem: We are now on Facebook. Let’s work on a few projects together which involve Twitter and opportunities for reporters and or developers. Ideas and reactions to these projects on Facebook please!
Two ideas:
1) Project:
MELD is a Northern UK initiative that wants teams of min. three people to work together on creative ideas for media clients wishing to get fresh, innovative ideas for their audience relations. Minimum one journalist, two designers per team.
Anyone want to do something with a Twittering reporting type idea?
Meld says its mission is to unite journalists and designers; “Journalists know how to find a story and to tell it well. Interaction designers know how to get that story out to the right audience. MELD will bring the best of both worlds together to find out what happens when the two worlds collide.”
Teams will work on real briefs from Industry partners, including Sky News Online, Haymarket and Johnston Press.
I myself (ave@contentclix.com) for starters am interested in people wishing to conceptualize reportwitters (ie reporters on an assignment, twittering) into a Widget. Any takers? We could collaborate, and present our ideas at Meld. Or to other media outlets.
2) Same idea perhaps, but offer it on a crowdsourcing platform www.ideablob.com. Is a competition that starts every month and get ideas voted up through crowdsourcing. Winner gets 10,000 in cash to start up a venture.
Harrisonburg is a small Virginia city with a population of less than 50,000. The town wasn’t exactly Happenstance until Brent Finnegan decided to liven things up by supplementing his alternative newsblog,
-Marilín, Who are you professionally?
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