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Jul 15, 2008
Details: We'll send an iphone to anyone in the world who wins this little contest. You just need to pay for the service.
Jul 16, 2008
Hey all -- just a short little promo to gain some initial awareness of the feature. Over time, having a lot of followers wont matter if Newsmakers aren't actually keeping up with newsmaking for their followers.
We'll also be introducing mechanisms to ensure that Newsmakers who are truly providing value to their readers are recognized and highlighted vs. those who are now. So, net net, I think this is a good way to kickstart the feature but also agree that it has to be more of an actual value add to be a Newsmaker over time. -jason 
Jul 16, 2008
I understand Jason, thanks for responding. But I have to disagree. Having a lot of followers should be useful, meaningful and fun, not meaningless. Social|median should avoid any reality where they "won't matter". It's alright, it's just a promo to call the attention to a new feature, but all actions you take mean something to us users, they give directions to the service and hint on what this is all about.
But if there's new iphones on the way, let them be! :) Hope I can participate in the next contest. Thx!
Jul 16, 2008
We appreciate the positive and negative comments. 72 hours of this contest shouldn't do any harm. I agree that in long term being a Newsmaker needs to be meaningful. I'm confident we will get there. We'll also be doing some outreach to the most active Newsmakers on socialmedian over the next couple of weeks to get your take on what features we could/should add to make being a Newsmaker more valuable for you. We got some good suggestions today for ways to expose which Newsmakers' followers actually read and comment on their stories.
Jul 21, 2008
It worked as a nice way to get people to know about the Newsmaker feature. Now, it's really up to the site working for itself and for the people using it.
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