I am amazed by Bronwen, my Twitter friend, who founded PerthNorg. She is teaching me what a Norg is and I want to help her pimp her very important and wonderful meme, Norg… Here is the sort answer as to what a Norg is, “norg is short for news organization. But not the corporate, MSM news organizations we have come to know — this is a new organization run by the people. It’s putting all the new media theories into practice.”
From Twitter and email:
chrisabraham “d bronwen I want you to show me a definition of Norg in more than 140 words… I can blog…”
bronwen: @chrisabraham: On it, sending you an email in a minute
Here is Bronwen’s email:
“Bit of info — use what you want. Ok well “norg“ is short for news organisation. But not the corporate, MSM news organisations we have come to know — this is a new organisation run by the people. It’s putting all the new media theories into practice.
A Norg is a community news blog — people can link to news they think is important, write a news story, embed a video story, create a podcast or upload original photos. And comment .
Everyone who joins becomes a journalist — or Cit J as we call them.
I created the concept and developed it from scratch some time last year.
My company Norg Media hopes to launch other norgs very soon (currently getting funding together — spread the word).
I used the word Norg because it best described what I was trying to create. The word come from a conference held in Philly, see here:
http://norgdom.perthnorg.com.au/2006/08/24/about-those-norgs/
This is how we describe PN on the site: PerthNorg is a news site with a twist – you are in control. By becoming a Cit J you can link, write, record or take a photograph of the stories that matter to you.
You then vote for the stories you feel are important. It is your news, your views. So, join the media evolution now.
I await more questions if you have them ;)
Bronwen”
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