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Maya Avrasin and Dorian Benkoil are now friends

July 21, 2009

Maya Avrasin joined Allan Siegert's group

Hyperlocal Journalism Business Model

The goal is to find models (templates) for journalists who want to start sites or blogs to profitably cover local news.

May 22, 2009

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May 22, 2009

Maya Avrasin commented on Jane Stevens's group 'Business Assessment Tools'

Amy -- look at ServiceMagic.com -- they ask contractors/agents to pay for listing them in the directory. You can offer this for free in the beginning but get paid on the backend for every lead these agents get from your site. Then, when you start ge…

May 22, 2009

Maya Avrasin joined Jane Stevens's group

Business Assessment Tools

This is a project to develop a local business and advertising assessment tool for jurnos who want to find out if a local Web-based news organization could be financially supported by local ads and other revenue streams.

May 22, 2009

Maya Avrasin is now a member of RJI News Collaboratory

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May 22, 2009

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At 10:25am on May 22, 2009, RJI Collaboratory said…: Welcome to the Collaboratory! Poke around a bit and if you don't see the conversation *you* want to have or the project you think matters, feel free to start it!

We've got a "How We're Using This Site" page that provides more detail on the different areas of the site and the ways to make best use of them to not only share ideas, but to get projects up and running: http://rjicollab.ning.com/page/how-were-using-this-site.

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Thanks for joining us! Adam Glenn on behalf of the RJI Collaboratory

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What kind of org do you work for?

news organization

What do you do?

journalist

What strengths/expertise do you have to offer?

The ability to straddle the new media-traditional media paradigm. I can also disseminate vast amounts of information and focus content accordingly. My opinions cut through the clutter and offer insight and inspiration to teams and networks.

What kind of help/insight do you hope to get from this community?

Understanding of where the news cycle will be heading; Actually being involved in this current groundswell of innovation rather than just reading about it.

I think we should use the RJI Collaboratory incubator to develop:

Building blocks for geographic- or topic-based local Web news sites, Business assessment tools for local Web news sites, Clearinghouse of experts to help launch new services

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