Lee Dorfman is the founder and CEO of Quicktate.com, a San Francisco-based company focused on high quality voice-to-text conversion and its integration with third-party applications. We spoke to him about his company and his plans for the future.
Rob Powell is a web publisher and CEO of Hyperlocal.co.uk Hyperlocal.co.uk is the strand name that covers the local website publishing activities of Uretopia Limited. Uretopia operate several local websites around London and the South East and have developed scalable platforms to handle business listings and user generated event guides. We caught up with him [...]
Matt McGee is a long time blogger and author of hyperlocalblogger.com where he shares ongoing knowledge and expertise on how to setup and maintain a hyperlocal blog. I wanted to get in touch with him to interview him about some of the experiences he has had both in the world of blogging and in the [...]
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 [...]
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 hyperlocal website and becoming [...]
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 [...]
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.
I [...]
