Our Neighborlogs service would fall into the Pro Am category. We’ve built a platform allowing one-person-bands or small teams to run local news and info sites in collaboration with multiple contributors. Some of the key ingredients to making these sites work are:
* Multiple tiers of contribution effort from low (comments) to high (full articles)
* Content flow that creates both a raw pool of all content and an editorially selected ‘featured’ pool
* Performance-based systems to financially reward contributors
* Social and promotion based solutions to reward contributors non-financially (we need to do more here but reputations are developing on many of our sites)

We also have extended some of the Neighborlogs components to work we’ve done for partners like http://www.kvtalks.com/ which is a good step in the Pro Am direction.

Looking forward to hearing more about real efforts instead of the handwringing a lot of us have been prone to lately.

Justin, VP Biz Dev Instivate
http://neighborlogs.com