preserve SEELANGS' format

[Susan LaVelle]

A great deal of what goes on at this listserve and something that the format is perfectly suited for is the very modern phenomena of crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing happens when a group comes together online in order to accomplish certain tasks. Wikipedia is the most common example of crowdsourcing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing), but there are other examples, such as the public "tagging" of photos on the photo-sharing site, flicr (http://www.flickr.com/) or the attempts at crowdsourcing of translation by the notetaking application, Evernote (http://translate.evernote.com/). Crowdsourcing produces mixed results most of the time; one reason being that a typical crowd does not possess the required depth and breadth of expertise that would meet the requirements of the task at hand with the needed or expected level of quality.

SEELANGS, however, made up of specialists and experts from many fields, is a perfect pool to facilitate crowdsourcing, and really, it does it successfully every single day. I have observed the "crowd" tackle a wide array of topics here, whether in the area of translation, cultural studies, history, or whatever.

This listserve, email, format is perfect for this, much better than the open forums that have been mentioned by others, such as blogs, or social media. 

No one in SEELANGS need be ashamed about using this listserve, nor should they feel like they are behind the times in any way; what goes on here is a cutting edge use of digital and electronic tools for Slavic humanities research.  

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