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TakePart: Spurring people to take action from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The single most difficult issue that those of us in the social change movement confront is: figuring out how to get people to take action. So I’ve been paying close attention over the months to the successful efforts of TakePart, an initiative of Participant […]
citizen journalism
Reporting from the World Economic Forum
Let me share something here that I’m not sharing over on the MySpace blogs. Rather let me gush for a second. Davos, Switzerland, is truly spectacular. There is something about an invite-only conference that allows every attendee to walk up to one another and say hi, introduce yourself, make conversation. Everyone who is here has […]
Accuracy tip sheet for citizen journalists
Before you write 1. The best way to maintain accuracy is to develop a system and stick to it. 2. Take the extra seconds to read back to the interviewee the spelling of his or her name. If you need an age, ask for a birth date and year. 3. Avoid using secondary sources to […]
