How best to be an Advocate for Allvoices Social Media News?

This contribution is filed under the heading "Your Story" and "Opinion" so please consider that if you decide to comment. Thanks!

Today, I decided to try a new approach to reporting contributions and was going to submit 100 reports on various topics with local photos that I have accumulated and story lines from events in the Philippines and around the world.

After two reports, I wonder if this is possible for today. Why?

The first report was not getting through to the system but I was able to save it as a draft (this option returned to me last month) and then after a few more attempts, I was able to publish it.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8099850-bruno-mars-concerts-in-cebu-manila-philippines-april-2011

To my surprise, it appeared twice on my profile and then I was able to watch as the page views actually diminished.

The second report was also hard to publish within the Allvoices System but I was finally able to get it loaded and here it is:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8100102-wikileaks-must-see-interview-with-bill-keller-charlie-rose-on-julian-assange

Once again, I feel that the initial page views were lost from this contribution.

My point in mentioning this here as a Contributed "Your Story" News report is simply to highlight some of the obstacles that are affecting my ability to contribute news today. While I understand that technology often has a "life" of its own, isn't the ability to publish a contribution a basic requirement to being successful here in the Allvoices community - however we define success?

Seamless reporting of news is a fundamental requirement for success and for today, so far, I feel that the system is not fulfilling this basic level of service.

What if I had the photo of a dead man's brain to attach to a major news story today? Would it get reported? Does it need to be propagated today?

Thanks for reading this contribution!

Attitude is perhaps our most priceless possession and I hope to be able to remain positive going forward.

To Your Success!

Note: It is possible that some of the technical difficulties that I have experienced today are at my end or in the connective links to the Allvoices technological platform, but since I have been reporting since 2010, perhaps there could be a automated reply when a contributor is having difficulties?

For example, the system could identify each of the nearly half a million contributors by a unique identifier and generate a ticket when there is a problem. If there is a system-wide update or other ongoing situation, then a blasted message could go out to all contributors to make them aware of such anomalies so we can adjust our time-table to report news and make contributions.