Build a dynamic local community news resource on Twitter in one hour

by Pat Kitano on October 31, 2009

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!

{ 7 trackbacks }

Tweets that mention Build a dynamic local community news resource on Twitter in one hour -- Topsy.com
10.31.09 at 10:13 pm
links for 2009-11-01 - NOWUSEIT.COM
11.01.09 at 4:33 pm
The Curatorial Economy
11.02.09 at 10:04 am
Our Links from October 31st through November 9th | Socialsquare - we make participation happen
11.08.09 at 4:01 pm
Twitter as good will engine – 10 reasons
11.15.09 at 5:25 pm
Building a Breaking Community News website with Twitter Lists
11.19.09 at 8:18 am
Media Predictions for 2010
12.13.09 at 2:08 pm

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

Vicki Lloyd 11.01.09 at 3:19 pm

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

Marc 11.02.09 at 10:31 am

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.

Pat Kitano 11.02.09 at 11:13 am
Laura Monroe 11.02.09 at 11:24 am

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:)

Byron 11.18.09 at 8:31 pm

Wonderful Idea Pat, thanks for the insight and posting great material.

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>