uFeel from Mita Adesanya on Vimeo. uFeel is all about making the news out of how you feel. It uses a plug-in that can be added to an article to ask readers specific questions about their opinions and experiences. When a response is submitted, it goes to the uFeel team who analyses it. By doing …
Category Archive: innovation
Apr 23
Hear it Here News
Hear it Here News is different from any other news organization because it’s word of mouth news over the Internet. Users can submit IHeards, and IHeards are searchable through keywords even if you record your voice. If there are enough of the same IHeards or even an interesting one, reporters from Hear it Here News will …
Apr 23
Pund’It
http://vimeo.com/40853069 Political news has lost the interest of many in the age group of 18-24, due to lack of appeal. Young adults want entertainment along with their information. That’s where Pund’It comes in. Pun’dIt is aimed to make political-related news concise, and package it with some entertaining commentary from the social media world. The website …
Apr 23
Hey Bill: Making Politics Personal
Introducing an app that allows you to know how possible laws aka bills will impact your future. The app uses data to rate the law’s impact on you on a scale from 1-10. Hey bill uses simple words and descriptions to explain bills. It also shows a bill’s progress toward becoming a law and gives …
Apr 23
Professionals Exchange
Professionals Exchange is for employees in the education field who want to create change. It allows like-minded individuals to connect and brainstorm ways they can improve education. Through the Internet, smart phone or bi-monthly magazine, passionate employees can collaborate and find ways to better their school systems. Professionals Exchange is also designed to foster a …
Apr 23
SourceUs: Bringing the community to the Journalists
We all have that topic that we feel passionate about, that we could spend hours talking about. We all have read an article about a subject that we know really well and said ‘WOW, this person got it all wrong.’ We all want information out there to be right, and we want our voice to …
Apr 18
por•tato: A convenient platform to bring reporters and the community together on stories
por•tato is a spin-off content platform that merges with a newspaper’s existing print and online divisions to engage community members in the act of breaking and contributing news. We crowdsource news but still uphold it to the same standards as expected of the journalists who would be writing those stories anyway — except now those …
Apr 08
News Gist: A spinoff mobile pub by journalists and public
News Gist is an open source tool that helps newsrooms build stories and information in essential parts for a young adult mobile community. The community can then edit and contribute information. The end result is a news product geared toward an on-the-go young adult audience (ages 18 to 29) — those who want shorter stories, …