What is Narrative
Narrative is a content platform where members and brands can create and curate content and share
their stories—either visually or through words. More than a social network, Narrative is a true online
community where users rule and are rewarded. There are three types of content channels:
Personal Journals
Personal Journals offer users a space where only their content can be posted. The content is not moderated and all members can view/comment.
Niches
Niches are communal subjects that anyone can post to. Each niche has an owner, who is rewarded based on the overall quality of content in the channel.
Brands
Brands are special channels designed for personal brands, organizations or publications that want to control who can post and manage the content on their channels.
Why
It's Fair For Everyone
Currently, social networks and other publishing platforms set content policies from on high, usually arbitrarily enforced, and earn billions of dollars off of the backs of their users. Narrative flips the script by putting its members in control of not only their content and data, but also the community at large.
Social Networks
Current social networks subjugate users—giving
them no control over content or data and
retaining nearly all revenue.
Solution
With Narrative, the middleman is eliminated, as users have management authority over the content and receive nearly all of the revenue derived from the system.
Publications
Bloggers, magazine and newspaper writers struggle to monetize their content as ad services and publishers take a huge cut for the content marketing they provide.
Solution
Narrative provides a turn-key platform
for compensating authors, editors,
and moderators.
How
The New Content Economy
Narrative is changing the game with a powerful economic model that rewards the people creating and
facilitating great content, with substantial revenue sources to build and sustain the network.
85% of all revenue is distributed to users.
In the Content Economy, users govern the system, with each user’s contributions and actions,
influenced by overall reputation, impacting the economic reward. The economic motive is to reward
all users who add value. Narrative uses blockchain technology as the basis for a content currency,
creating tangible value around user-generated content.
Reputation scores and content ratings ensure that
“bad eggs” have minimal impact and that quality users
and content rise to the top and are rewarded the most.
For All to See
Transparency
Narrative is a completely transparent system. All actions of authority (moderator actions, Tribunal actions, etc.) are logged and published for all to see. All revenue-related transactions are also displayed. The financials of the organization will also be audited and published.
Authority
Member
Governance
Narrative members have management authority of all content. Content is owned by users, moderators are elected, and a user-elected Tribunal is the final authority on all issues related to content and data on the network. Every ad that appears on the network is subject to community approval, as well.
Rewards Paid
Crypto-Phobics
Welcome
Although Narrative utilizes cryptocurrency to capture the economic value of the network, users do not have to have any understanding of blockchain or cryptocurrency. The service is completely free to use and rewards will be paid in either crypto or traditional currency.
Who
Meet the Team
Leadership
Ted O’Neill
Pioneer in UI design and development, originator of BBCode, viral marketing innovator. Founder of Social Strata, responsible for development of a series of category-leading community platforms since 1998.
Rosemary O’Neill
Co-Founder of Social Strata, 20+ years of leadership in the online community space as an entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. Recognized HR innovator, interviewed by HuffPo, Fox & Friends, BBC, and NPR’s All Things Considered regarding Social Strata’s pioneering unlimited paid leave program.
Brian Lenz
Proven software engineer and architect with 17+ years of experience overseeing all aspects of SaaS technology provisioning, including infrastructure, systems, and security as well as software development. Developer for the City of Zion.
Michael Farris, Ph.D.
Innovator, entrepreneur, educator, and expert in learning technology design. Community builder and communicator.
Molly O'Neill
Award-winning tech executive with 25 years experience. Recognized writer and presenter for print, radio and online media. Regulatory expert testifying multiple times before US Congress.
Melanie Mathos
Marketing leader, brand builder, social mediaphile, author and speaker with 18 years experience in industries ranging from publishing to tech marketing.
Advisors
Christopher S. Penn
Digital Marketing Executive, Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Ninja.
Michael B. Moore
Brand Strategy Expert. Best-Selling Author. Former Coca-Cola brand manager. President | Chief Executive Officer at International African American Museum.
Paul B. Allen
Ancestry.com founder, Keynote Speaker, Tech Entrepreneur, Global Strengths Evangelist.
Chris Pirillo
Content Creator and Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Creator of LockerGnome, one of the original email newsletters on the web, the pioneering Gnomedex event, and a popular tech culture YouTube channel.
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