2. Crowdsourcing Merriam-Webster: Google: 3. Crowdsourcing It
focuses on the community power on a specific topic. It harnesses
the power of a community. (Journalism 2.0, p. 47) Where do we see
it? Publishers/Reporters ask their audience for help on an
investigation what are they seeing, etc. Users reach out to their
followers for help on a topic 4. Crowdsourcing Examples Watershed
Post(New Kingston, N.Y.) This site created a collection of
Hurricane Sandy data based on its audiences reporting Link:
http://www.watershedpost.com/sandy WNYC Map: Gauge Flooding in Real
Time This community reported where they were experiencing flooding
after Hurricane Sandy. WNYC plotted the results on a map. Link:
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-
news/2012/oct/29/map-real-time-flood-gauge/ 5. Storify What is it?
A site that aggregates information from various websites based on
specific terms Allows someone to create a story around a specific
trend Per Storifys own description: Collect media from across the
web Publish on Storify, embed anywhere Share and notify sources, go
viral 6. Storify Based on the fundamentals of crowdsourcing Great
tool for reporters Aggregates: Tweets, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr,
Instagram, Google and links 7. SEO Search Engine Optimization Its
what we do to make our content appear on the first page of search
results Use specific words (keywords) that tell Google what the
content is about Describes the content 8. SEO It goes both ways.
Use good keywords to show in rankings, but also use good keywords
to find good results Good keywords help you do better online
searches Helps with crowdsourcing, Storify, discovering online
trends, sources 9. SEO Keywords How do you know what keyword is a
good one? Visit keyword search sites such as:
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword- tools/seobook/ Always base off
Google practices because they own market share 10. Hashtags These
are terms that become a link when a # is added to the front of the
word on various websites Searchable keywords These work on Twitter,
Google+, Facebook, Instagram 11. Hashtags When to use them? Use
them for searching such as what Andy Carvin does in the book.
Include in a post about a trending topic Include in a post when you
are crowdsourcing: i.e. #Madison, #Obama, #Syria Also used as
sarcasm, text emoticons 12. Hashtags Symbols break them
#DontUseApostrophes #911 vs #9/11 Dont be too long Should be
readable even scrunched into a hashtag Dont use too many in a post.
This can appear as spam Continue to check them 13. The end Check
out the assignments in the Week 2 folder (found in Assignments tab)
See you next week!
