#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using badge systems on news sites
July 26th, 2011Posted by Joel Gunter in Top tips for journalists
Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman has an interesting post up on using badges to help build communities around your site and make some money in the process.
Badge-based reputation systems are already in use on a number of news sites, including the Huffington Post and Mashable, and I’ve blogged before about Citizenside’s use of a similar system to encourage engagement and verify content.
Sonderman’s post identifies four key areas in which badges can help news sites:
Revenue
Community building
Better crowdsourcing
Better comments
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