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ISeeChange and NASA Launch Citizen Science App

The Realtime Report

Communities in Harlem, New Orleans, and Los Angeles will pilot investigations that document environmental change and enhance climate research. “We’ve made something utterly unique–a way to combine stories and CO2 data that puts communities in charge of their own climate records,” said Drapkin. ” Click To Tweet.

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What Happens After Your System Notices Something Important?

Net-Savvy Executive

At the high end, we're looking at a valuable—but noisy and sometimes misleading —source of crowdsourced information about events in near-real time. It's the web-powered news channel that always shows something you might care about. Faster than you can read them, more messages arrive, and they're all relevant.

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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

The Realtime Report

Emily Drabant, research director at 23andMe, says ”We know that there are many genes, so the idea is when you aggregate across many thousands of people you can start to see genes that have perhaps a small effect on risk for Parkinson’s. ” The goal is to reach 10,000 participants, a much broader pool for genetic research.

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The New Media Journalists

Proactive Report

Make all the people involved with the newspaper part of your community, Be interactive. Find, aggregate, give context and meaning to the news. Use crowdsourcing. Can you be part of their crowdsourcing? Be connected. Every print story must have a web element that’s meaningful and extends the narrative.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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The 21 Best Content Curation Tools

Webbiquity SMM

This works much like the highlighting feature in Kindle…it acts more like a news curator than a compiler — and there are plenty of aggregator apps out there — but it’s a fast way to check out what others are reading, too. A personalized news aggregator. Aggregate content from sources across the web. 11) TrapIt.

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How to Analyze What Works for Your Audience

Sprout Social

Use an aggregator like Feedly to source content to share. The popular crowdsource graphic design site 99Designs was actually started because the company’s founder Matt Mickiewicz listened to his audience. The content you share should be a mix of original and curated content from other websites.

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