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Open Salon 
Categories Politics, social issues, popular culture First issue April 17, 2008 Company Salon Media Group, Inc. Country United States Language English Website opensalon.com Open Salon is a hybrid blogging platform and social network site started by the Salon Media Group, Inc. According to Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh "Open Salon gets rid of traditional gatekeepers, and makes our smart, creative audience full partners in Salon's publishing future."[1] After registering, users can start blogging immediately as well as rating and commenting on other posts. The Open Salon home page functions as a real-time magazine cover and is updated throughout the day. The best Open Salon content is featured on the cover of Salon.com.[2]
On May 29, 2009, Open Chats debuted--short, 5-minute interviews with OS contributors. Saturn Smith appeared in the first feature.[3]
Honors
Open Salon was a finalist in the 2009 National Magazine Awards under the interactive feature-- a category that recognizes an outstanding feature or section of a website that uses multimedia technology, tools, community platforms or other interactive formats to deliver or share content such as news, information and entertainment, rather than practical instruction or advice.[4]
References
- ^ http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/salon/2008/08/11/open_salon/# Welcome to Open Salon by Joan Walsh
- ^ http://www.opensalon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2008/07/24/welcome_to_our_public_beta
- ^ http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2009/05/29/open_chat_saturn_smith
- ^ http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/nma_winners/index.aspx
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