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One quick and easy way that you can monetize a hyperlocal community website / portal is to sell a premium press release account. A premiumm press release account allows for individuals, business owners or other community media outlets to sign up and publish press releases, workshops, events, etc directly to your hyperlocal portal. This service is different than a typical blog submission or columnist because typically the information being posted is directly in relation to the selling or promotion of some sort of local event.

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 [...]

I know you have heard this before and it won’t be the last time either but it always comes down to this. I know, because I have had this happen to me. I stepped forward to share my story with a news or media outlet… and it turned out exactly opposite of how I intended.{{{gold}}} [...]

When building and launching a hyperlocal blog here are 12 vital categories to consider which will keep your blog both healthy and vibrant. 1. Local Sports Local sports comprises the heart and soul of vast number of communities across America. From little league baseball to the basketball and swim team results, photos of friday nights [...]

I began building websites in the late 90′s. Over the past ten years I have seen alot of things grow and change around the technology for community portals. Recently a hot topic which I have been asked is what platform should be build our community portal or hyperlocal blog on. Many communities and newspapers are [...]