Open Salon

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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]

Open Salon articles were frequently featured on the front page of Salon.com in the first two years of Open Salon's operation, but eventually disappeared. In December of 2012, the Open Salon site appears to have fallen into disrepair as a result of spam accounts overloading the system and many Open Salon bloggers moved on to the website Our Salon.[4]

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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/salon/2008/08/11/open_salon/# Welcome to Open Salon by Joan Walsh
  2. ↑ http://www.opensalon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2008/07/24/welcome_to_our_public_beta
  3. ↑ http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2009/05/29/open_chat_saturn_smith
  4. ↑ http://open.salon.com/blog/alysa_salzberg/2012/12/12/os_update_what_i_know_about_whats_going_on_here
  5. ↑ http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/nma_winners/index.aspx
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