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Designing for the REAL 95%
As occasionally happens, Ken and I find ourselves on opposite sides of the world at conferences this week. Ken is at Mobile Web in Africa 2010, in Johannesburg, and I’m hereby asking him to tell you...
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Social media and the rise of FrontlineSMS
It’s Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we asked our Founder, Ken Banks, to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history...
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News Participation Starts at ‘Home’
Man standing on what was a boardwalk. Photo credits: Instagram, ncoronges Seemingly every major news event worldwide is heightening participation in news. People are eager to share updates and photos...
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The Data Divide
Do you remember when grocery stores didn’t know you were pregnant before your parents? Or when newspapers couldn’t find naked pictures of you by looking through your phone? Boy, those were the days...
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Our brand of ‘agile’
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a rare insight into operations at our secret developer base, deep in the bowels of a nondescript office building in Nairobi, Kenya....
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Lowering barriers to adoption isn’t just one approach – it’s critical to real...
This post is a write-up of a talk I gave at the recent Mobile Web East Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Thanks to the team for inviting us to speak! Technology companies are in the business of...
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Can Citizen Journalism Move Beyond Crisis Reporting in Traditional Newsrooms?
This is the first in a series of three posts, originally published on the PBS Mediashift blog. The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen...
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7 Ways Newsrooms Can Boost Citizen Reporting
This is the second in a series of three posts, originally published on the PBS Idea Lab blog. In my previous post, I argued that established, traditional newsrooms tend to be most comfortable accepting...
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The View from 100,000
Here at FrontlineSMS, we’ve been making software for a long time. When we first released Version 2 of our software, a little over a year ago, we were one of a few SMS management platforms available-...
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News That is Node-Worthy: An Idea For Connecting Community Radio Stations in...
Editor’s note: this post was jointly written by Trevor Knoblich, Project Director at FrontlineSMS, and Harry Surjadi, Knight International Journalism Fellow and freelance journalist Radio telescope at...
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