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Sourceables...A New Online Community

Sourceables is a new, online community of sources, experts, everyday people, and media professionals who are sharing their expertise and insights in order to connect and communicate with one another.

What You Know and Why You Know It

The purpose of Sourceables is to provide you with a platform to share your expertise, viewpoints, stories, and experiences so that members of the media can search for and connect with the right sources for insight, commentary, and quotes for the stories they are writing, their websites or blogs, or the shows they produce. Sourceables can help position you as a credible source by demonstrating what you know, why you know it, and how well you can communicate your thoughts and ideas on today's news, topics, and trends. You can also include links in your profile to news releases, white papers, book excerpts, or anything else that demonstrates your expertise.

A New Tool for Media Pros

For media professionals, Sourceables is your 24/7, always updated database of sources, experts, and contacts. You can search for anyone by topic, area of expertise, or news story or trend and immediately find who you need, when you need them.

Who Can Use It?

Anyone who can offer their insights specifically on what's happening in the news or with today's leading topics and trends. Simply create your profile, add links to your personal site(s) and begin posting your comments. Adding a link with your post to a news story or external site helps connects your comments to current topics. For media professionals, Sourceables can help producers, reporters, bloggers, writers, authors, or anyone else who needs to quickly find and contact the sources they need. Because user comments are limited to those about news, trends, issues, research, studies, or other topical issues, you can find a wealth of sources without wading through the promotional hype. It's also completely anonymous for media pros (should you choose to be) so you can search for sources without having to weed out unsuitable candidates or deal with unwanted contact. However, media professionals can, if you wish, reach out to members of the Sourceables community with your specific queries or create a source account and share your work or thoughts as well. See the FAQ for more details.

Connect and Communicate

In addition to offering your insights on the news, Sourceables is a great resource for connecting and communicating with others. Follow those whose interests match yours and share your ideas or make new contacts. Just click the follow link on the profile page of the Sourceables member you'd like to add to your list.

More Than Just the News

Sourceables gives you the opportunity to do more than just comment on news and topics. You can also share what you are working on or what interesting projects or research you are developing or involved with. Maybe you have a book, film, or other project due out in a few weeks or months, but just happens to be topical right now. Use your posts to discuss why and share your insights to help the media find who's on the leading edge of the next hot topics and trends. Read the FAQ for a full explanation of how Sourceables works and how it can benefit you.