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Things we believe in

 

We created Bighow to provide a free tool for free speech.
We created Bighow so that people could publish and share anything.

We created Bighow to get people from all over to share what they know, their beliefs and goals for life. hoping that we all will respect, assist, teach, learn from, and listen to one other.

 

These are brave new times for news and publishing.

Professional Reporters are learning to adapt and work in harmony with citizen reporters.

 

Today, everyone is a reporter.

The everyman reporter tells his stories to the whole wide world, explaining them in a simple, direct language. By doing this, he becomes a part of a better world.


Bighow stands for vast world of online publishing.

These are the things we believe in:

1. Our crime is that of curiosity. [thanks, 'The hacker's manifesto']

2. Share good stuff.

 

3. Stop over-sharing. Don't be a narcissist.

 

4. Listen to understand.

5. Keep it real.



 

6 Speak like a human. Ditch the suit-speak.
 
7. More signal, less noise. [Thanks, 37 signals]

8. Simplify, simplify.

9. Markets are conversations. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy. Public Relations does not relate to the public. Companies are deeply afraid of their markets. By speaking in language that is distant, uninviting, arrogant, they build walls to keep markets at bay. [Thanks, 'The Cluetrain Manifesto']

10. Work Together, work alone - do some public good

11. (Value) People who cement cracks over people who create cracks. [Thanks, Tarun Tejpal]

12. To be interesting, be interested.

13. Schools don't have a monopoly over knowledge.

14. Demo or Die [Thanks, MIT]

15. Let's build things that are useful and delightful. [Thanks, IDEO]

16. Hippocratic Before Socratic. [heal first] Thanks Allan Chochinov

17. Don't do everything and be everything -- to everyone. - Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo

18. Do no evil. - Google

19. Make a dent in the Universe. Change the way people think. Think different.

20. Be the same person online.

21. Work on something that matters to you more than money.  [Thanks, Tim O Reilly]

22. Connect people and ideas - build tribes. [Thanks, Seth Godin]

23. The Always On Generation is different. That is the way with generations.

Reporters of this world! these are things we believe in:



24.. In future there will be more reporters. ( [Thanks, Jeff Jarvis]

25. In future, there will be more journalism, more curators and more editors

26. Don't be self-important.

27. Read More, Write less.

28. Question everything, Assume nothing.

29. Everything is propaganda - let's start from here.

30. Point to what's next. Be the explainer-in-chief.

31. Point to the best sources.

32. Make something useful, help people use it and then get out of the way. - Craig Newmark

33. Do you use your power for good...or, for awesome?

34. Journalists are not experts.

35. Death to all clichés.

36. Fight against the celebrity-media-industrial complex.

37. Find the genuine heroes.

38. If you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk (aka 'come to the point ASAP')

39. "What do you demand in a website?" "I demand that it be demanding, dammit!" - Jay Rosen

 




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