Comments on: Visible Workings (redux) http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/12/30/visible-workings-redux/ Strategies for Internet citizens Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/12/30/visible-workings-redux/#comment-126274 Jon Udell Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:34:19 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=889#comment-126274 "do you rely on google alerts or do you do periodic searchs on known services like eventful and such?" The latter. Every scan of Eventful produces a list of events within a radius around a target location. Every event has an owner. If an owner hasn't been seen before, that Eventful account goes into the "new contributor" bucket. Monitoring the feed of eventful+new+contributor produces an alert. The feed item's link points to the events created by that new contributor, so an admin can easily click through, evaluate, and make a decision. “do you rely on google alerts or do you do periodic searchs on known services like eventful and such?”

The latter. Every scan of Eventful produces a list of events within a radius around a target location. Every event has an owner. If an owner hasn’t been seen before, that Eventful account goes into the “new contributor” bucket. Monitoring the feed of eventful+new+contributor produces an alert. The feed item’s link points to the events created by that new contributor, so an admin can easily click through, evaluate, and make a decision.

]]> By: Vitor Silva http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/12/30/visible-workings-redux/#comment-126272 Vitor Silva Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:28:45 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=889#comment-126272 >>I plan to delete that contributor and wait to see if he or she shows up again with actual event contributions. i imagine that you may have already described the process by which other potential contributors may "show up" but i can't seem to find it. could you elaborate a bit on how that process of discovering potential contributors happens? do you rely on google alerts or do you do periodic searchs on known services like eventfull and such? >>I plan to delete that contributor and wait to see if he or she shows up again with actual event contributions.

i imagine that you may have already described the process by which other potential contributors may “show up” but i can’t seem to find it.
could you elaborate a bit on how that process of discovering potential contributors happens? do you rely on google alerts or do you do periodic searchs on known services like eventfull and such?

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