ideas generation and collaborative projects

Collaborative platforms

Slack

• Slack is a website that allows teams to collaborate together through channels and direct messages, the website connects the whole company and allows them to communicate.
• Group conversations (categorise them) upload all documents- file types; sustain larger files and images

Crowdfunding: funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the internet. 

Crowdsourcing: involves seeking knowledge, goods, or services from a large body of people. These people submit their ideas in response to online requests made either through social media, smartphone apps, or dedicated crowdsourcing platforms.

Examples: 
crowdfunding: Go fund me, Kickstarter

crowdsourcing: Fiver, Upwork

Sheffield soup- case study example

An example of a grassroots project- is a project produced by amateurs, increasingly distributed by social media 

How does it work:

• Individuals pay £5 to attend a scheduled event 
• They receive a bowl of soup to eat while they listen to a series of pitches
• All funding generated from the door goes to the winning pitch so that the project can be developed and realised
• The founder, Pennie Raven, initially floated her ideas on Twitter to get the project started. 

Veronica Mars

A big project turned down by warner bros for funding

The project raised $ 5 million on Kickstarter 

Was a cancelled show that wanted to renew the season I think

Redbooth

Project management tool

Track the progress of the project

assign tasks and monitor them

you also liaise with the client (project manager)

Difference between Redbooth and social media platforms 

No tracking

Cannot send big files on these platforms

Redbooth is strictly set up for professional use

Evaluate project development tools: Basecamp

See who is involved in the project

Projects have individual pages, each page includes:

• Message boards
• Docs and files
• To-do lists
• Schedule 

Trending: when social media measurement tools flag the most popular hashtags and fastest-moving content, especially Twitter.

Social media aggregation: the process of collating the data of all your social media in one place.

Social media and search engine optimization: a major internet marketing strategy that involves the process of affecting the visibility of a website in a search engine. May target different kinds of searches, including images and videos, academic and news searches.

Social media measurement and Aggregation: 

Finding out how many times a website has been visited, or how many times a project has been discussed on social media, is a vital tool for many media professionals. 
Sites such as Back Tweets, Hootsuite and mention are designed for this purpose, allowing project managers to collate trending data on how many times a hashtag has been used or shared.