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<big>Re-inventing delivery of news in mobile so that it meets the needs of digital natives, without regard to legacy platforms and methods, and does not require a personal device to access. Envisioning the 21st Century Newsbox as tablet kiosks in public places.<b>Champion: [mailto:matt.galligan@gmail.com Matt Galligan.]</b>
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*A system that auto-curates social media (Twitter, Google+, Facebook etc.) to provide topic advice from experts as judged by the crowd in order to spark insight and action.</big> <b>Champion: [mailto:bdegraf@gmail.com Brad DeGraf.]<br>
 
  
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/infovalet/7383667670/in/set-72157630144267624 BACKGROUND ON BRAD DEGRAF]<BR></b>
 
 
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[[Image:Matt-galligan.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Matt Galligan]]
 
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====The Insight Into Action Engine is a tool / process for communities and the media that cover them.====
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* Need digital devices in "common places" to smooth out the loss of a daily newspaper, or declining print readership.
It allows invited curators to:
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* Common places may be libraries, grocery stores, food banks, shopping malls, parks, etc.
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* Devices would be primarily by the publication that's providing them
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* Devices would likely be an iPad with Guided Access enabled to prevent anything but visiting the sponsoring publication's website or app.
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* Other aspects of the devices can also be sponsored: web access, location, etc. and can provide primarily placement of advertising either physically or digitally
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* No new technology is needed to be written by the publication, as it's just using their existing applications, websites, or RSS feeds.
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* Efficiently follow the zeitgeist of the community (e.g. a ''''newswire'''' of aggregated real-time web activity)
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* '''Engage''' with each other, converse, and focus attention around specific stories that curators are interested in.
 
 
 
* '''Surface''' those stories that are most actively discussed/reinforced.
 
 
 
* Propose one or more ''''calls to action'''' as a consequence of a particular story (e.g. raise money for further investigation, air the story on television ....)
 
 
 
====Our initial vision is to rapid-prototype it by plugging together existing components:====
 
 
 
* The invited curators would be bootstrapped using the Public Insight Network.
 
 
 
* The 'zeitgeist/newswire' would be provided using Sociative's R88R ('radiator') technology which distills hourly feeds, ranked for relevance, of the activities of those real-time web users who are most relevant to the community.
 
 
 
* The engagement/conversation would be a simple commenting system attached to every story in the newswire
 
 
 
* The most important stories would be surfaced by simple heuristics for 'trending' such as most heavily and recently commented on
 
  
* The 'call to action' for a story could be a link to a fundraising page on Spot.us, or a 'contact us' form that media producers could give curators to suggest stories to cover.
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*[http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/circa-wants-to-rethink-the-news-at-a-sub-atomic-level/ Matt Galligan / Ben Huh's Circa starts beta trials] (GigaOm, Oct. 13, 2012) / ALSO: [http://www.geekwire.com/2012/journalism-startup-circa-launches-hopes-redefine-news-presentation/ GeekWire version]

Latest revision as of 02:04, 17 October 2012

Re-inventing delivery of news in mobile so that it meets the needs of digital natives, without regard to legacy platforms and methods, and does not require a personal device to access. Envisioning the 21st Century Newsbox as tablet kiosks in public places.Champion: Matt Galligan.


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  • Need digital devices in "common places" to smooth out the loss of a daily newspaper, or declining print readership.
  • Common places may be libraries, grocery stores, food banks, shopping malls, parks, etc.
  • Devices would be primarily by the publication that's providing them
  • Devices would likely be an iPad with Guided Access enabled to prevent anything but visiting the sponsoring publication's website or app.
  • Other aspects of the devices can also be sponsored: web access, location, etc. and can provide primarily placement of advertising either physically or digitally
  • No new technology is needed to be written by the publication, as it's just using their existing applications, websites, or RSS feeds.



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