Slogging, and Innovations In Crowdsourced Content

New interview with David Smooke, Founder of HackerNoon, and new ways to turn remote teams’ chatter into publishable content.

Introduction from BENZINGA:

Founded in 2016, HackerNoon is an independent technology media publishing platform founded and run by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke. The site works with an innovative approach to crowdsourcing content — and publishes about 30 stories per day. That, along with a certain editorial point of view and personality on tech stories, has garnered a loyal following.

David Smooke, CEO & Founder of HackerNoon, said in an interview on the Growth Manifesto podcast: “…Our model is contributors own their content, and they give it a non-exclusive license to HackerNoon, and we can edit and distribute it. <…>it’s between social media and traditional publishing. If you publish on Forbes, it’s a lot of pitching; it’s a lot of back and forth, it’s kind of a clunky login and submission of content. So having a good contributor experience is there, but every post goes through a second human, and there are quality control issues, there are content improvement efforts, so that’s like just a better experience. I think the second human rule is something; everyone should use when they post online.”

The site is also known for its approach to technology — with its founders focused on long-term growth and the best way to answer publishing challenges.While most traditional publications struggle for leadership, the Smookes are blazing new trails and looking at new ways to tackle challenges.

When HackerNoon separated from Medium, instead of building on WordPress or Moveable Type or any other standard content management platform, HackerNoon built its own tool to allow for growth.

When they wanted an emoji system to like, laugh, smile, etc., at specific images and lines, it was created on blockchain as a way to track comments.

What is the idea behind slogging?

“Slogging” — a portmanteau of Slack and Blogging — is their new innovative content effort and a new way to think of crowdsourcing your remote team’s chatter.

Why waste the witty banter — and the occasional sudden insight — on the depths of your slack archives, when you can turn them into publishable content?

How to Enter the Decentralized Internet Writing Contest

Slogging, or Slack Blogging, emerged from HackerNoon’s internal use of Slack. Looking back on the last year, our tech lead had published 30,000+ Slack updates but only 12 HackerNoon posts. So we made an application for tech leaders to convert insightful Slack discussions into well-formatted HackerNoon posts.

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