1. Community Collecting A collaborative research project to build a community-owned social network site for making, sharing, and preserving stories in Orange County, NC Mike Nutt Master of Information Science candidate School of Information and Library Science UNC-CH

2. Why? People already use SNSs for “preservation” People already use SNSs for “preservation” Low-income populations use SNSs Low-income populations use SNSs To battle fragmentation To battle fragmentation Creative online behavior is plateauing, SNS use is not Creative online behavior is plateauing, SNS use is not New economic realities New economic realities Better privacy policies and control Better privacy policies and control Encourage “buy local” media economy Encourage “buy local” media economy

3. Assumptions Stories=Information=Money Ethical obligation to alleviate poverty Some have little but their livelihoods (John Friedmann, Empowerment)

4. Bottom of the social network site Pyramid “…non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post” - Facebook “…a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content” - YouTube “…perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content” - Flickr (Yahoo!) Hernando de Soto The Mystery of Capital

5. Town/GOWN Partnership Grant-funded research projects Student labor Student employment Service learning curricula Early stage business incubator Longitudinal studies At-risk populations Personal media management Mentors Expertise Story laboratory Space Data

6. Monetization Day 1Year 2Year 5 Infrastructure Building HostingDigital deathData recoveryDomain namesAdvertisingConsultingGrants Qualitative Sales News serviceMobile appsMedia licensingGenealogy materialsWhite papersAcademic subscriptions Quantitative Sales Data miningBusiness intelligenceData setsMarket researchResearch contracts

7. http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu

8. http://www.zotero.org/groups/community_collecting

9. Team Heather Barnes: group bibliography Molly Bragg: website Mike Nutt: feasibility assessment & business plan Sylvia Richardson: needs assessment, grant writing, website Neal Stokes: website Peter Zasowski: group bibliography, website, b-plan

10. Questions? http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu nutt@unc.edu twitter.com/storymakers