Short presentation for a Q & A today about KF online communities.

1. Experiments in Online Community
from the Knight Foundation
presentation to OSI 1.21.09

2. org chart
strategic
initiatives
journalism communities

3. roles the community manager fills
• Web producer
• video producer
• video editor
• video personality
• video researcher
• marketing/promotion
• community moderator
• blogger

4. workflow for a release
• press release for internal prep; community manager reads
• research, create video/images
• edit & upload video/images (send to team for preview, inclusion in press release)
• press release goes up, KF home page public (uses video/images)
• Knight Pulse upload post and video to other sites
• Knight Blog post up with video, link to press release
• @knightfdn tweet and link to Pulse and blog
• @knightpulse tweet and call out (@) specific Twitter users

5. News Challenge Garage
• 1620 users
• 445 projects
• 3 months
• 6 weeks to design and build
• accompanied by meetups in NYC, SF, Seattle, Vancouver, Austin,
Chicago, D.C. by Susan Mernit and Kristen Taylor

6. purpose of Garage:
reduce redundancy, build teams,
refine ideas, let creators defend

8. Big Draw:
Anyone in the Garage could apply
for a mentor (mostly past winners)
to work through the idea in the
Garage (publicly)

10. Knight Pulse launched in beta
Nov. 10, 2008
• community site
• about future of news and information
• highlights projects in media innovation and active information (50% KF)
• features video conversations as new content in Phase 1
• articles from Tor with video commenting featured
• planning for Phase 2 now

13. what’s next
• gathering feedback on Phase 1 of Pulse
• better help text on Pulse
• defining user actions on Pulse that could also happen elsewhere
• integrating across Knight Blog, Pulse, Twitter account, external services

14. Kristen Taylor
taylor@knightfdn.org