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Missionallvoices is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions tied to news events and people. It is the first true peoples media.It's a place where individuals from all over the world can share what is happening where they are (location) at a particular point in time. allvoices then brings together multiple voices or points of view via news stories, videos, images and blogs from the Internet, to provide context and build momentum. The platform provides the community with the ability to search and navigate a news event by location and category, to share and to have a discussion around it, to emotionally connect with each others perspectives and complete the human story.allvoices is an open and highly relevant social media site "unedited by humans", where anyone can report and add their voice from anywhere.What is a news event?Something that happens at a given place and time, something interesting, exciting or unusual that we want to share with others and discuss!Organized occasion: an organized occasion such as a social function or sports competition.Examples of news events can be as simple asPrice of real estate in San Francisco is going downTwo people shot in a mall, Peshawar PakistanHoney and Cinnamon as natures best medicineSport game at Stanford, Palo AltoOlympics in China.allvoices takes your reported news event, organizes it by location, time and category, and creates context by bringing together relevant news stories, blogs, images and videos. It creates a place for the community to share and discuss news, by contributing related text, video and images and commenting - adding a voice.On allvoices, news is:Reported by contributors like you and mePosted automatically by allvoices from news RSS feedsNews reported by contributors like you and me: A person can report news on allvoices from their cell phone with SMS or via the Web site, by clicking on "Report Your News". A news event can be started with a title, summary, location and category. A person can report news by uploading an image or video or just as simply as writing an article on allvoices (but having a title and a summary too).News automatically posted by allvoices: allvoices uses news reported by newspapers and wire services as the starting pointContributions or adding a voice to existing news events, to start a discussionOn allvoices.com, everyone is encouraged to participate and users can add their voices and perspectives on existing news events too. A contribution can be an article, a blog post, comment, video, image or Q & A regarding a particular news event. They can also help us rate the news event within the community.allvoices is an open, unedited and unmediated site. Every voice (contribution) is automatically checked for spam and relevance to the news event. A contribution is not edited and is posted as is as long as it is relevant to the news event. The relevance is checked by our algorithms and technology - not humans.The whole idea behind adding a voice to an existing news event is to get the discussion going. It can be as simple as sharing an emotion or a comment.The users can also share a news event with their friends and other social media sites from the news event page, to invite others to join the discussion!Founded in April of 2007, allvoices was started by passionate people who believe that everyone has a story worth telling, sharing that story can be the first step in changing lives. allvoices redefines the voice of people through the global community for sharing current news events and issues from multiple points of view, providing an emotional connection to each others perspectives.At its core, allvoices is about democracy. About giving power to people. About their voices having the effect that makes a difference.
