1. Tips For Building Community
Patient Safety
Foreclosure
Fracking Student
Loans
Internships Drywall
2. Tip 1:
Know who you’re
looking for,
and how they can help
your reporting
3. Tip 2: Participate in existing
communities
• Bottlenose.com
• Sullia.com
• Twitter search
• Google
• Facebook
• Reddit
• LinkedIn
ASK
YOUR
NETWORK
4. Tip 3: Can’t find a community? Build
one
http://bit.ly/FacebookPTHarm
5. Tip 4: Organize Your Sources
http://bit.ly/ReportingWithGo
gleForms
6. Tip 5: Design for participation,
make the tasks compelling
7. 1 – Know who you’re trying to reach, and
how they can help
2- Participate in existing communities
3- Experiment with building your own
4 – Organize your sources
5 – Design for participation, and make tasks
compelling
IN SUM!
Editor's Notes
My team - find people that can contribute to our reporting, and then generate actionInvestigative, long stories.Success = impactAction = sharing stories, calling senators, participating in discussions for context or connecting with one of our reportersWe’re building niche communities
Get as niche as possibleExplain patient safetyCollege department analogy
Before you build, researchJoin -> participateGoal: learn, but also get people to recognize you
1660 membersFed the community with post scheduleGrassroots marketingModeratedWe got: guidance for our investigation, sources and CONTENT – haven’t published one traditional story yet
How do I make them do tasks that help my reporting?Get InvolvedCommunity – you’re important
