Comments on: The Policy Wiki: A social experiment

By: Thinking the thinkable: Dan Conover’s vision for the future of journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:59:00 +0000

[...] the Washington Post has built this into its WhoRunsGov site; fellow Nieman blogger Matt Ingram has experimented with it at the Globe and Mail. Intelligent aggregation. Human aggregations of relevant content add value by [...]

By: Globe and Mail’s Public Policy Wiki | Blogging Hope

Globe and Mail’s Public Policy Wiki | Blogging Hope — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:38:28 +0000

[...] Ingram, the communities editor at the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, writing at the Nieman Journalism Lab’s Web site, recounts how he’s been experimenting with new ways of interacting with their readers [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:31:23 +0000

Thanks a lot, Daniel. It’s been an interesting experiment.

By: OMNT Links of the Week #10 | Old Media, New Tricks

OMNT Links of the Week #10 | Old Media, New Tricks — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:34:52 +0000

[...] Ingram from The Globe and Mail just wrote this great post for the Nieman Lab about his public policy wiki project. Fascinating. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:33:45 +0000

Great experiment, Mathew. I especially like the final step you took: giving the notes to your Finance Minister. Most American journalism institutions would not do that.

Bravo.

By: The Policy Wiki: A social experiment : CyberJournalist.net

The Policy Wiki: A social experiment : CyberJournalist.net — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:12:22 +0000

[...] Canada’s Globe and Mail launched a site called the Public Policy Wiki several weeks ago. “A joint venture between the paper and the Dominion Institute (a non-profit agency dedicated to improving the dialogue about public policy in Canada), it’s a combination of a traditional wiki — that is, a publicly-editable resource similar to Wikipedia — and a public discussion forum, with comments and voting features as well. In many ways, it’s a kind of social-media mashup aimed at pulling in suggestions from readers and other concerned Canadians about public policy issues.” [...]

By: Jornal experimenta com wiki : Ponto Media

Jornal experimenta com wiki : Ponto Media — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:46:57 +0000

[...] O JORNAL canadiano Globe and Mail está a fazer experiências com um wiki sobre políticas públicas. [...]

By: Nieman Journalism Lab: Globe and Mail on setting up a news wiki | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:32:37 +0000

[...] Full story at this link… [...]

By: The Policy Wiki: A social experiment

The Policy Wiki: A social experiment — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:41:28 +0000

[...] the rest of this post at the Nieman Journalism Lab blog) [...]

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Glam Media acquires AdaptiveAds | socialmediainfluence.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:18:07 +0000

[...] Ingram describes the results of an experimental Public Policy Wiki he set up as part of his new role of Communities Editor for the Globe and Mail, designed to pull in [...]