How can you build connections that lead to great journalistic content? … Read More
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Talking Politics: An Interview With Spaceship Media
How a small organization created positive dialog between voters in Alabama and California … Read More
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What Women Want in a Community
To increase the diversity of your community, you need to know the social rewards and cues that work for many women … Read More
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The Real Name Fallacy
Many say that horrible comments would vanish if people were forced to use their real names. Thirty years of research suggests otherwise. … Read More
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Your Best Stories of 2017
If you’re planning a big story in 2017, you should take inspiration from some of 2016’s best journalism. … Read More
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Time for Change
If we aren’t listening to people every day, why should they listen to us? … Read More
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What Do Frequent Commenters Want?
A detailed look at the habits and needs of 15 people who spend a lot of time in the comments … Read More
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Coding Away The Game
How Slashdot improved behavior using a secret piece of programming … Read More
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User-Submitted Malware: A Safety Guide For Journalists
When you ask people to send you images and documents, you are creating a potential risk for your newsroom … Read More
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It’s time for you to try Ask
Our first product, Ask, is available for you to download and use … Read More
When The Trolls Arrive
In the second part in our series on the creation of Slashdot, its co-founder reflects on the arrival of the trolls … Read More
Valuing The Public
“Conversation is everything. It challenges what the scope of a work really is.” – An interview with journalist Mónica Guzmán … Read More
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How To Use Forms With Your Audience
If you don’t ask in the right way, you can alienate the readers with whom you’re trying to connect … Read More
New Community Tools: Hearken
An exciting tool that increases engagement and connections between newsrooms and the public … Read More
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Brexit and the value of the comments
Over the past few days, a number of online comments about Brexit have gone viral. It’s a sign of what we need to do next … Read More
Can Design Make the Comments Nicer?
What does signing in to comments tell us about comment spaces? Caroline Sinders takes a look … Read More
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How Can Newsrooms Not Be Creepy?
If journalists want readers to share personal information, they have to make them feel safe … Read More
Let’s Begin at the Beginning
Rob Malda, co-founder of Slashdot, starts a series on how he built the world-famous online community … Read More
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Our First Hackathon
Earlier this month in Washington, DC, we held a collaborative event around data and visualization. Here’s what everyone made … Read More
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Three new users
We’ve added some new users to our personas list … Read More
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New Community Tools : Groundsource
GroundSource increases audience engagement through the simplest of tech platforms … Read More
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Coral Design Series: Introducing Emma
Emma Grdina shares questions she wants to answer with our design … Read More
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A Change of Focus
Our Project Lead explains why we’ve altered our approach … Read More
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Artificial Moderation: A Reading List
Current academic research in artificial moderation … Read More
How To Argue Successfully Online
If we can’t agree on basic reality or facts, how can we discuss what’s right and wrong? … Read More
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Where The Audience Is At
There are better ways to handle your comments, says The Engaging News Project’s Dr. Talia Stroud … Read More
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Finding Your Top Commenters
What the New York Times learned from talking to its top contributors … Read More
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Meet Our Users
We’ve created a fictional group of personas to help us build for real user needs. How can we improve them? … Read More
![[IMAGE] A paper prototype presentation from Beyond Comments at the MIT Media Lab. Three people stand in front of a table with the person in the center holding a large piece of paper containing rough sketches. Behind them are various presenters. The person on the left has a microphone.](https://coralproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/presentation-picture.jpg?w=915)
Beyond Comments: Our First Event
What would our software look like as a real-world experience? … Read More
12,000 people have something to say
We’ve just released a study of thousands of commenters, conducted with the Engaging News Project at the University of Texas-Austin … Read More