Marktd.com – Our New Project

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.

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