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People who live in areas branded as ‘problem communities’ by the media feel disengaged with the news – but hyperlocal citizen journalism offers an opportunity to re-engage citizens. These are the...
Rose Levy, spokeswoman for IndieGoGo.com told Street Fight: “With the economic growth lagging behind historical patterns, the American economy sorely needs the boost that crowdfunding can provide...
As local newspapers continue to evaporate, however, a “near me” news vacuum is opening up in localized pockets across North America and Europe. Hyperlocal sites like Wrexham.com and the Port Talbot...
DavisWiki is a hard thing to describe. It’s a blog as a blog would be written by an entire community. It’s a virtual bulletin board that’s more comprehensive than Craigslist and Patch and Yelp...
SaveOurCommunityTheaters.org seeks to utilize niche or "neighborhood marketing" to create a community of resources and ideas that are locally driven and specifically targeted. Instead...
Lucky Ant has only been around for a little over three months, but it works like this:Each week, the creators choose one project from a local business in your neighborhood–something like building...
GroundReport.com is a citizen news portal that enables anyone to instantly publish articles, photos and video to a global audience. The GroundReport community rates each other's work, and the...
Crowdfunding for specific hyperlocal coverage has received mixed results, but it can be a revenue stream worth pursuing. For example, Charlottesville Tomorrow recently ran a successful...
The Open Planet Ideas project, sponsored by Sony and WFF (the World Wide Fund for Nature), is a true web2.0 green-hearted initiative, aimed at crowdsourcing responses from the online masses that will address key environmental issues. Cheaper than in-house R&D and more Mother Nature friendly, Sony scores great PR and the electronics giant’s own technology gets repurposed.
2020 Mission raises the profile of small local charities and community organisations through online video coverage at zero cost to the cause. Each video is crowdfunded by local businesses raising...
Before joining Philly.com, Victor was part of the community engagement team at TBD.com where he helped lead their crowdsourcing efforts and built a network of local blogs. Prior to that, he served...
Ourcast provides detailed, hyperlocal forecasts based on a new type of statistical modeling that uses real-time radar data and weather station readings provided by 20,000 volunteers across the U.S....
Metwit is a social weather application that mashup social realtime weather information and enables you to get accurate, hyper-local weather conditions from real people. Just like a check-in,...
According to Smallknot founder, Jay Lee , "Our model right now is not based at all on the JOBS Act, though we still believe that the model we chose makes the most sense from the business...
"We're hyperlocal. Kind of the whole idea is investing back into your own community," Seedlauncher co-founder Jeromy Sonne said , who is finishing up his senior year at the...
The OpenStreetMap, dubbed“the Wikipedia of maps,”offers the world's largest crowdsourced map, providing superb levels of detail and accuracy not possible with conventional alternatives....
The crowdsourcing platform also benefits from inheriting the large database of users who have downloaded previous versions of SkyMotion. "We're addressing issues that have plagued...
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