Here’s a perfect way to engage your community by providing them with local breaking news resources using Twitter and Twitter Lists. And it only takes ONE HOUR to build… see the slideshow (best seen in full screen)!
If you build a local breaking news Twitter site from this slideshow tutorial, let us know @pkitano and we’ll LIST it!
Wonderful Idea Pat, thanks for the insight and posting great material.
Wow Pat, this is really interesting stuff! This is a great way to take advantage of tools like Twitter to really get hyperlocal info, and get it out to the community....a great way to become the #1 expert..thanks for putting that together. Spreading the word:)
Marc, I agree, Twitterfeed.com has its faults and sometimes just doesn't work... anybody out there with a Twitterfeed alternative?
Great stuff. Thanks for posting. However, I wonder if there's a good alternative (maybe not Web-based) to Twitterfeed. As I'm doing the project you've outlined, it's going excruciatingly slowly as Twitterfeed seems to hang or comes back with errors, or takes forever to complete the process as I'm loading it with RSS feeds. I'd really like to complete the project, but it's hard to justify the time it's ending up taking.
Hi Pat -
This is good stuff - thanks for sharing it. Now I've got a new project to implement.
Hope to see you at ReBarCampSD?
Vicki
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.
I'm the author of Media Transparent, and contributor to Street Fight, Social Media Today, Daily Deal Media, The Customer Collective, and Quora.
I speak on the future of social commerce at conferences associated with social media, local advertising and real estate.
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