Tag: hyperlocal
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Towns are hyperlocal social networks with data (people that is) – BuzzMachine
Jeff does the Soylent Green schtick with hyperlocal. Towns are hyperlocal social networks with data (people that is) – BuzzMachine
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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
“Why doesn’t Craigslist choose small towns? … In cities, there are enough buyers and sellers to make markets work – whether of used stuff, new stuff, events, etc, etc. In smaller towns, there just isn’t enough supply or demand.” Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
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Finding and Using Local Content on YouTube – web.aan.org
[yourtownnamehere] YouTube video of the week. Smart. Works as a topical thing, a la the IBA political blog’s Schwarzenegger Video of the Week, or as a geographic thing on a community site. Finding and Using Local Content on YouTube – web.aan.org
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The important lessons of Backfence’s closing – Terry Heaton
Let me just say this: Terry is really fucking smart. I actually learn from his blog things I need to know, like this week. Go read this post if you’re at all involved in trying to figure out how to make hyperlocal work at your news organization. The important lessons of Backfence’s closing – Terry…
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Just the FAQs, please
Jeff Jarvis on the Local Challenge: “The biggest challenge facing local news organizations today is figuring out how they can gather more and produce less. That is, how can they help other people produce, so the news organizations have something worth gathering?” Gather more and produce less, indeed. It’s hard for lifelong newsroom types to…
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Thinking about media as a platform – Matt McAlister
A short explanation of how interactivity can change the game. Get off the stage, and let the readers add information of their own. Let them form a community around the information you’ve packaged for them. via Ingram. Thinking about media as a platform – Matt McAlister
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How ‘Citizen Stringers’ Can Help You Hyper-Localize – E&P
Because while you don’t have enough reporters to put one in every community in town, you certainly have readers in every neighborhood. How ‘Citizen Stringers’ Can Help You Hyper-Localize – E&P
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Police Brawl in DC: A Case for Citizen Journalism – web.aan.org
A recipe for sending your reporters out on their feet into the community, not necessarily to do the reporting (nice if they do leave the desk, though), but to evangelize reporting. How to make reporters out of citizens. via david cohn Police Brawl in DC: A Case for Citizen Journalism – web.aan.org
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Newspaper community site philosophy
Steve Yelvington talks about Bluffton Today in an e-mail interview he’s posted, reminding me that there are reasons why community sites work and there are methods to manage and market them to the community: “There’s a lot we can learn from Internet startups if we just recognize that geographic community is actually a special interest.…
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Doing Local Right – Simon Willison
One of the Lawrence crew’s notes and links on the databasey hyperlocalness that is the LJWorld and related properties. If you don’t know what I mean by that, check out the post and all the links. Bang around the sites a bit and see what they can do. Doing Local Right – Simon Willison