1. How do you want to participate in making InvestigateNet?

    We’re looking to the future and considering the next steps for InvestigateNet.

    We asked ourselves whether we should we keep a singular focus on developing a functioning prototype, or first enable easier participation from all of you who have expressed interest in getting involved with the project.

    As part of our deliberations, we considered our belief that microcollaboration holds largely untapped potential for journalism and beyond, which led us to a natural conclusion to enable broader participation.

    We’re already on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, here, and will start adding to Github when we have code to publish.

    What else should we do? How do you want to participate, and what would make it easier? Wiki? Google+ Hangouts? Meetups or hack days to work on InvestigateNet? Something else? Tell us.

     
  2. On the Web, there are a lot of funny things. The Ryan Gosling “Hey girl” meme is one of them. And after our founder Saleem Khan highlighted the “Ryan Gosling, Journalist” blog, “Ryan Gosling” decided to return the favour (smart guy):

    ryangoslingjournalist:

    Ryan Gosling, Journalist: I dig you, journalism and Investigatenet for bringing us together

    Hey girl,

    I’m a dreamer. I dream of you.

    I dream of being together.

    Journalists dream of being together, too.

    So help these  Investigate Net guys put journalists together in the Knight News Challenge.

    bit.ly/INKNC12

    They did me a solid, girl.  They brought us together.

    Do me a solid, girl.

    Help them bring journalists together.

    I love journalism.

    And you.

    newschallenge:

    1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

    Enable journalists to surmount structural barriers to newsgathering, through microcollaboration, by linking them with social tools and technologies.

    2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

    Services like…

     
  3. InvestigateNet on Facebook and Google+

    After you vote for InvestigateNet in the Knight News Challenge, head over to Facebook and/or Google+ and Like, +1, and add us to your circles, so you can keep up with the project even after the News Challenge ends.

    Facebook
    Short URL  j.mp/INVSTG8NETfb
    Long URL   facebook.com/InvestigateNet

    Google+
    Short URL  j.mp/INVSTG8NETg
    Long URL   plus.google.com/b/104906431929702943621/

    Don’t forget: Only two days left to vote!

     
  4. saleemkhan:

    Ramaa Sharma, a trainer and strategist at BBC, reblogged my Knight News Challenge proposal for InvestigateNet, and wondered whether it needs a mechanism to encourage and ensure that journalists participate.

    As she and I discussed on Twitter, that’s a possibility but initial feedback suggests the reciprocal benefit that naturally arises from collaboration is incentive enough.

    ramaamultimedia:

    Great idea by Saleem Khan. I do wonder whether there needs to be some sort of reward/recognition for collaborating. Not monetary necessarily - just to motivate and ensure journalists get involved. 

    saleemkhan:

    My Knight News Challenge 2012 proposal, InvestigateNet, would ease common, pervasive barriers to newsgathering, through what I call microcollaboration.

    Please vote and comment.

    newschallenge:

    1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

    Enable journalists to surmount structural barriers to newsgathering, through microcollaboration, by linking them with social tools and technologies.

     
  5. InvestigateNet’s entry in the Knight News Challenge.

    We appreciate your support, which you can show by clicking through to our entry and clicking the appropriate icons to “like”, reblog, comment on and tweet [using the #NewsChallenge tag] about our entry. 

    newschallenge:

    1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

    Enable journalists to surmount structural barriers to newsgathering, through microcollaboration, by linking them with social tools and technologies.

     
  6. [VIDEO] InvestigateNet microcollaboration for journalists.

    (Source: vimeo.com)