hyperlocal 101

You know you’ve got trouble when a giant mobile service provider jumps into the hyperlocal social search game. I could not believe it when I learned today that AT&T has launched a competitor to Yelp. This is huge and Buzz.com is going to be a game changer if not checkmate for many existing social local platforms.

Last week I purchased a new ebook from Adam Westbrook called Newsgathering for Hyperlocal Websites. I’m interested in the subject of hyperlocal blogging and the time was right for an ebook of this sort to emerge. 2010 will most definitely show a huge increase in the amount of hyperlocal blogs being created, however I have [...]

Nike has launched a new hyperlocal iphone app called True City.
The app provides real time updates on six european cities , London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris and Barcelona . All information is created by people in the cities who generate it.

“Post it Once, Get it Everywhere”… HYPERLOCALLY This is the promise of the new online service, EggZack.com, which just launched its national service on January 13th. If there is one thing small business owners need more than customers, it’s TIME to get more customers. On top of being the chief bottle washer and cook, the [...]

So you want to build a hyperlocal website. You’ve heard about it and it sounds like a great opportunity. Something that you could enjoy and potentially create a great source of revenue for yourself …

So you’re ready to start your own hyperlocal website. Are you up for the challenge, and do you know what it will take to succeed? Do you know which platform to launch on? How to buy a domain name? Where to locate your audience… and how to keep them coming back for more? Building a [...]

Cell Journalism & Mobile Blogging Most of us reading this post can remember the days when cell phones did not exist. A time of being "disconnected" and essentially "unreachable" to the world at large. Those days are long over and if there is one detail in specific which ties both hyperlocal blogging and citizen journalism [...]

Online Transcription Service One amazing tool for any hyperlocal journalist is the ability to take their stories and get it out into the world both quickly and accurately. With online transcription services working around the clock it is now possible for you to upload audio and video files and have full and accurate transcriptions available [...]

WP (WordPress) iPhone & Blackberry Application Ok, so if you haven’t figured this out by now the citizen journalist of the future will be highly mobile and often times in situations in which they do not have access to a personal computer other than a mobile phone. The WordPress iPhone application is a utility created [...]

Here is a list of the top the to 12 amazing hyperlocal blogging tools. These also fall under the category of vital tools for citizen journalists. To me hyperlocal blogging and citizen journalism are essentially the same thing so if your writing and maintaining a hyperlocal blog you are also actively participating in the creation [...]