Gary Kebbel and Jose Zamora of the Knight Foundation explain what they’re looking for and how to craft a proposal for the 2010 Knight News Challenge that stands the best chance of winning some of the $5 million in grants.
Application Tips for the 2010 Knight News Challenge from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
This is year 4 of the 5-year grant program.
Steve,
Pop-ups piss me off!
I believe, I’m not alone in this opinion.
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I especially like the “close this by voting” intrusion on my eyeballs, anxious to read the content, but, may, with time, not visit as often and knowing that You, above all, should know better. Unless, of course, it’s a test, an experiment, or you just like to get little ‘ol men pissed off
What say you?
Stu: Yep, experimenting. How do you get people to voluntarily donate, without pissing them off, yet get their attention? Worth playing around with to see what works and what backfires.
The bottom-bar pop-up vote begging thing only shows once per day. And I think I can turn it off (or will be able to once the alpha version turns to beta).
Thanks for the feedback.