Crowd-Sourcing
Crowdsourced Video: Watch Everything and Everywhere at Once
Posted by brendan on Oct 13, 2011 in CRIB Notes, Crowd-Sourcing, Mobile Phones, Video, Webcasting, YouTube | Comments Off
Want to see the cutting edge of crowd-sourced video production? The Uptake, hands-down the best guerrilla video shop in the country (they live-streamed the Wisconsin Uprising), has developed a new video aggregator for the Occupy Wall Street movement that lets you easily click back and forth between feeds from 61 different locations (and counting, there’s even an #OccupyLjubljana feed from...
Read More5 Tips for Translating Online Activism into Legislative Gain
Posted by brendan on Feb 28, 2011 in CRIB Notes, Crowd-Sourcing, Email, Facebook, New Online Strategies, Polls, Text Messaging, Tips and Tutorials | Comments Off
In response to a recent study showing that as many as half of congressional staffers believe online form messages are fake, M+R Research Labs put together a helpful tip list on how to “turn online advocacy into real-world change.” The list was developed to help groups targeting Congress, but they’re equally usefully for local legislative organizing. “Online petitions”...
Read MoreInternet Shut Down? There’s an App for That
Posted by brendan on Feb 1, 2011 in CRIB Notes, Crowd-Sourcing, New Online Strategies, New Tools, Social Networking, Text Messaging | Comments Off
As protests in Egypt heat up, government authorities have quickly moved to shut down nationwide internet access — something that is frighteningly easy for elites to accomplish and should be a wake-up call for all of using corporate-controlled platforms as organizing tools. But undaunted, protesters have quickly switched to using a new app called SayNow that doesn’t require an...
Read MoreThe Rise of the Social Search Engine?
Posted by brendan on Feb 11, 2010 in CRIB Notes, Crowd-Sourcing, Facebook, New Tools, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Comments Off
Ever heard of “social search engines”? They’re sort of a cross between Google, Twitter and Facebook. Social search engines aim to connect people with questions to people who can answer those questions. By contrast, regular Web searches take questions, break them into keywords, and then find Web sites that have the most relevance to these keywords. According to the NYT Bits...
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