At the Twitter Conference #140tc 14 days ago, I asked people in the audience to tweet me in lieu of business cards so I can follow up. So today, I search.twitter my name @pkitano and noted that only the last 12 days are indexed, and the new contacts I made at the conference are now [...]
From Craig Newmark’s blog, Gavin Newsom is introducing social media to San Francisco civics, and creating a Zappos-like Twitter channel @SF311 to support non-emergency city nuisances like potholes and trash. RecoverySF.org is set up for citizens to discuss the local issues related to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed by Congress, also known [...]
Breaking LA News is aggregating Twitter feeds for the Lakers /Nugget game 4 this Memorial Day. Hyperlocal breaking news are ideal for broadcasting local interest events, and have the additional benefit of attracting a huge national audience. We assisted in augmenting the traffic to the site with two well placed comments (albeit more like ads) [...]
What’s missing from sites focused on a city? Community organizers. It’s the same leadership dilemma facing any organization, whether physical or virtual. Hyperlocal sites need to be driven and organized by hubs and influencers of the local community, and these hubs need to feel invested and committed to their “city site”. Hyperlocal “news” sites like [...]
The Domus Breaking News Network is an initiative by the Domus Consulting Group to create new online media to broadcast real time information. The emergence of social media applications like Twitter that provide instantaneous ways to broadcast and communicate any kind of news is changing the way people digest information. For example, advertising as a [...]
BreakingSFNews.com, BreakingLANews.com and BreakingNYCNews.com broadcast what is happening in each city in real time through a survey of local Twitter feeds and contributions from Twitterers who add tweets to the scrolling news feed using a specific #hashtag system. The Advent of the Breaking News websites We’re just beginning to see the development of “breaking news” [...]
Local advertisers have been the bread and butter of local print publications, whether it’s the town newspaper, the free car and home for sale magazines outside supermarkets, or Penny Saver coupon books. The local consumer would pick up these circulars to find the best deals of the day. As print advertising slowly disappears, local advertisers [...]
The article title will raise the hackles of Web 2.0 purists, but Twitter is an efficient tool for real time local advertisers. As local print begins to disappear – local newspapers and weeklies, Penny Savers, local coupon books, new online media should appear that will allow consumers to track local deals and sales. So far [...]
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.
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