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Hello Wranglers,
This is Marc, Design Director at NowPublic.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be introducing some exiting
new tools to the NowPublic website to make it even easier for people to
collaborate on news stories.
You've just been introduced to our Crowd Power tool that allows you to enhance your stories by sourcing YouTube videos. Another tool we've been working on is the NowPublic Widget. A widget lets our members post a feed of NowPublic stories to their Blog or Web Page.
You will be able to decide what news feed you want. You could get a feed of the Top Stories on the Front Page, or maybe you just want to see the latest Technology News. The choice is yours.
In addition to showing the News Sort of your choice on your blog the NowPublic Widget will also let you get in touch with people on the ground where the stories in your selected feed are happening.
Here is this posted as a story with an example of a widget as it would appear on our leader's blog.
http://www.nowpublic.com/new_tools_now_public_widget
I'll be online for tonight's wrangler chat and look forward to your questions and comments.
Cheers
Marc
at 13:59 on May 17th, 2007
Hey Marc,
Tried to check out that widget but the page isn't loading. Is it under revision? Thanks.
-Torrey
at 14:12 on May 17th, 2007
In reply to #1 levmyshkin at 13:59 on May 17th, 2007
Hi Torrey,
It seemed to work for me. Here is the link again. I did mark it as spam so it didn't jump to the front page when comments were made.
http://www.nowpublic.com/new_tools_now_public_widget
at 21:07 on May 17th, 2007
In reply to #2 mbaumgartner at 14:12 on May 17th, 2007
I had the same problem yesterday when I tied to open it -today as well, I get a 404 on the link. I think once it gets marked as spam it gets "hidden"...but I know there is a way to open a spammed page back up because I did it once when we were first using flags.
Paging Dr. Meyers! Need assistance! :)
at 22:44 on May 17th, 2007
In reply to #3 babblingdweeb at 21:07 on May 17th, 2007
I'll try to sort this out and make sure everyone gets a comp that wants one. You can also email me your contact info at marcb@nowpublic.com and I'll send you a jpeg copy of the comp.
Thanks
Marc