Marktd.com – Our New Project

Marktd is a reference system that highlights
marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.
Marketers submit articles they either write or just find on the web and
other marketers vote on the value of those articles. The most popular
articles reach the front page.

And it’s free.

www.marktd.com

Martkd been created by Piers Fawkes who runs PSFK.com.

Here are some helpful details:

Submission

Everyone and anyone submits links to their favorite marketing stories to Marktd.com (you have to be signed up. Simple – just click here).
You can be someone who just spotted something cool – or it can be
from your blog or even your own press release archive( It doesn’t
matter where it comes from as the community will decide what’s worth
reading)
Your entry gets filed in "New Marktd Stories"

New Marktd Stories

New Marktd Stories holds all the fresh marketing article-links
submitted by the users of Marktd. Here you will also see links from
Piers favorite blogs/sites semi-automatically.
There will be a lot of articles but they can be sorted by by ‘Topic’ – by trend or marketing discipline
Users can rate the article-links by voting on the article, or getting an article Marktd.
If an article gets more than three votes, or Marks, the article gets promoted to "Latest Marktd News"

Latest Marktd News

The Latest Marktd News is a smaller pool of better quality
marketing content. You’ll find links to the most news-worthy articles
as decided by the marketing community.
It can be sorted by trend or marketing discipline. Or even by tags
Users can rate the article links by Mark-ing it.
The most popular articles in the last few days rise into a special category called "Top Marktd News"

Top Marktd News

Imagine this section as the front page of a newspaper – with a quick glimpse, you can see what’s hot right now.
The most popular recent articles feature on this page.
It’s the page you should always check out when you go to Marktd.com

Why Is Piers Doing This?

Because I’m going on holiday and 25,000 people visit PSFK each week and I don’t want to let them down.
And because I’m intrigued with the effect community-editing will have on mainstream and business media.
I still think there is a role for the human editor – but there’s also a role for the community-editor too.

Will It Work?

Let’s see this as an open-source experiment. I built this on an open-source platform called Pligg – and anyone can do it. I want to see if we can democratize content for the reader.
There will be bugs and stuff – and I’m no programmer, so who knows what sort of mess I’ve made of the code.

How Do You Get Involved?

Submit news you see, news you write, news you make to Marktd
Add a Submit link to the template of your Individual Blog Posts to let your readers judge what’s good enough for Marktd
Add this code to your Bookmark’s column to let you Mark any page your browser is open on:

javascript:location.href=’http://www.marktd.com/submit.php?&url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

Then – as importantly – MARK. Every day, look through the content and MARK.

Anything else?

Any feedback and technical skills offered would be appreciated. I’ll get back to you after June 6.
How do you pronounce Marktd? Marked or Marketed? We’ll let the people decide.
What happens if people abuse it? I want anyone to use the system -
even publicists. The voting system should stop some much manipulation
of the system. And I’ll ban anyone who has been misbehaving when I get
back with my tan.