I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up.
I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.
Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?
I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.