Setting up a newsroom workflow for crowdsourced projects can help make the process of asking readers to contribute for a one-off story or an ongoing project more efficient.
But what can you do to not just make the most of their involvement, but to make sure this information can be easily found, saved and built on later on?
Ariana Tobin most recently was assistant producer for WNYC's Note to Self podcast, part of the team who created Bored and Brilliant, a project that gathered data about how much time people were spending on their mobile devices, and its follow-up, Infomagical.
In this Online News Association (ONA) blog post, Tobin, who is also an 2015 MJ Bear Fellow for ONA, advises building in responsiveness for your project, such as an automated texting system people can constantly communicate with, and rewriting your calls to action regularly to ensure people's contributions stay relevant to what you ultimately hope to get out of your story.
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