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Creating Community Culture

Posted by mconnelly on February 18, 2016 | Featured

How to build a space that helps people build relationships with each other … Read More

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Alternative News Editors Offer Alternatives to Commenting

Posted by greg on February 2, 2016 | Featured

What can Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl teach us about audience? … Read More

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Join us

Posted by andrew on January 21, 2016 | Featured

We’ve opened up our repos, launched a community forum, and we want you to join us in our mission. … Read More

Advice for the Accidental Community Manager

Posted by jessamyn on January 15, 2016 | Featured

Librarian, internet folk hero and former Metafilter moderator Jessamyn West explains how to run a successful community. … Read More

New Community Tools: Civil Comments

Posted by sydette on January 11, 2016 | Featured

Second in a series about new community tools. … Read More

This Year In Coral

Posted by sydette on December 23, 2015 | Featured

Here’s what we did and what’s next. … Read More

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Raising Women’s Voices

Posted by messier on December 17, 2015 | Featured

The absence of women’s voices is a problem for democracy, and for news organizations’ bottom lines.
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Our Code of Conduct

Posted by andrew on December 15, 2015 | Featured

We expect everyone contributing to The Coral Project to follow this code. … Read More

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New Community Tools: Polis

Posted by sydette on December 9, 2015 | Featured

The first in a series about innovative approaches to online discussion. … Read More

The Math Behind the Metrics

Posted by francis on November 19, 2015 | Featured

Measuring trust is no simple matter. It requires a lot of careful thought – and some math. … Read More

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Internet Comments and The Law

Posted by andrew on November 17, 2015 | Featured

Are sites ever legally responsible for what’s posted by the community? Here’s what can and can’t get you in trouble. … Read More

Who Comments on the Commenters?

Posted by greg on November 12, 2015 | Featured

Agence France-Presse has written an interesting piece about comments on news sites. Here’s what its commenters said to us. … Read More

Our First Technology Decisions

Posted by david on October 29, 2015 | Featured

It’s hard to code something out of nothing. Here are the first technology decisions we’ve had to make. … Read More

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How Can Our Trust Tool Help You?

Posted by greg on October 28, 2015 | Featured

We want to hear from you. Tell us how you might use our first product. … Read More

On The Same Page?

Posted by sydette on October 27, 2015 | Featured

Why the discussions around comments and community need to focus on access and diversity. … Read More

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What makes us different

Posted by andrew on October 16, 2015 | Featured

There are many existing comment platform vendors out there. We’re not like them. … Read More

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Our First Product

Posted by greg on October 2, 2015 | Featured

We’re building a tool to help publishers better manage their roster of commenters and contributors. It’s the first of many tools to come. … Read More

I’ve done a lot of internet commentary

Posted by sydette on September 24, 2015 | Featured

Comment sections exist because we feel a need to connect around the news. How do we honor that intention while creating a safer space for everyone? … Read More

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A problem like the comments

Posted by andrew on September 11, 2015 | Featured

What is the journalistic purpose of engagement and community? … Read More

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Killing the comments — what’s next?

Posted by andrew on July 28, 2015 | Featured

Some high-profile websites are closing their comments sections. Are comments broken or do we need some better tools? By Federica Cherubini. … Read More