Citizen Journalism

‘GuardianWitness’ is The Guardian's new crowd sourced news platform that creates Citizen Journalists, via a new smartphone app.  Wanna-be-journalists or every day people can submit interesting stories, or in times of need, The Guardian will issue ‘Assignments’ to gather additional photos and video content for bigger stories that are happening in real time.  It's a great way to invite people to participate in creating real news.

GuardianWitness : An Introduction Subscribe to the GuardianWitness channel - http://bit.ly/ZxgdZG GuardianWitness, is our new home for content you've created. You can send us videos, pictures and stories and browse materials submitted by other contributors. We'll be suggesting assignments. Choose one and use your phone's camera to shoot video or take a photo, or upload something you've saved previously.

Digital Outlook

SoDA (the Society of Digital Agencies) unveils the results of their annual Digital Marketing Outlook Survey, along with new perspectives, fresh ideas and real concepts of how organizations are balancing the art and science within their digital agencies.

The survey digs into projected budgets, growth opportunities, organisational structure, technological shifts, etc. for digital marketing companies and their clients in 2013. Useful stuff...