Why I am pleasantly surprised by RadioÉnergie (4)
Radio-Energie’s website has been relaunched and visitors now officially land on the community section “carrefour”; and let me tell you, you can’t get more than “web2.0″ beyond that. Here are some of the new features:
- users can submit news and promote the ones they like by voting. Now, I don’t know if the algorithm they are using is similar to digg or follow reddit’s
- users can get their own blog at radioenergie.com/username, with video and audio publishing
- there is also a section about popular videos from youtube, much alike the #1 section
- VoxPop allows users to record videos from their webcam, which should add more spontaneity and also get more videos published, as it bypasses the classical record-edit-encode-upload process
- WebJockey Energie lets a user become a community manager, until he or she is replaced by another user
- there are also presence features, allowing users to discover others
The WebJockey feature is very innovative. Previously, social networks and web2.0 websites who rely on user-generated content had people working as community managers to moderate and encourage users. This is a step beyond: users get to compete on who would be the best webjockey, who is then replaced by a more dynamic user if he/she is not up to the task. As far as I know, this is an industry-first in social networking.
Previously, I openly criticized the project because of their technical problems at launch. But in this new version, I haven’t seen any bugs, the user interface has been polished and expertly done. Another sign of success: the users are also more active and on the forefront, unlike 2 months ago, where the radioenergie and meïdia team were displayed as the most active users.
Congrats to the meïdia team!
oh my god… u guys screened-shot meeeeee? haha :)
and me too! but you putted a number on my head!!!!
That’s too cool!
hey there radioenergie boys and girls.
yes its because you were the stars of each section
[...] I also had another reaction, which is: there should be a book on “why blogging” first. I am not sure most people in Québec or in Canada get “blogs”. If you convince the general public, if there is a large audience of bloggers who interact, converse, and write about what matters to them, then business people will follow, regardless of their opinion on blogs. I especially like what Marie-Chantale Turgeon is doing with stars-of-the-web, which is a blogging platform launched last year, and her continual advocacy of blogging through her consulting projects. [...]
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