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5 Tips for Building a Successful Hyperlocal Site

The official burial for MyTopiaCafe.com will be on July 1, 2009. That's the day the hyperlocal site for the Daytona Beach News-Journal will be defunct, dead, killed or otherwise terminated for future use. It goes the way of several other hyperlocal ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  30 Jun 2009

FCC Opens "White Space" Access

Buried beneath coverage of our nation's historic elections Tuesday was the highly anticipated decision by the Federal Communications Commission regarding "white space" on the wireless spectrum. On Nov. 4 the FCC approved a plan to expand the use of the ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  6 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Kevin Martin (FCC)

BlogOrlando: Shiny New Toys and More

On Sept. 27, the BlogOrlando unconference drew more than 230 participants from across central Florida (especially Orlando and Daytona Beach), plus a contingent from Tampa -- and some from as far away as Atlanta and Washington, D.C. This event brought ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  29 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  FriendFeed,  Wordpress

Rocky Mountain News: Tasteless Tweets

News organizations have been using Twitter to provide live coverage of the recent political conventions, as well as other types of news (such as sports). But a funeral? For someone who wasn't a public figure? Cara Degette took the Rocky to task in this ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  11 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Searching Gustav's Lost and Found Friends and Family

Three years ago, frustrated families tried to connect with one another after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided a database for finding missing family, but their interface required ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  1 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Federal Emergency Management Agency

News Was Never Really One-Size-Fits-All

Yesterday, Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance posted part 2 of his "Duh, you should have seen this coming" post, Transforming American Newspapers. (Yesterday Amy Gahran summarized Part 1.) In part two of his instructional diatribe, Crosbie takes us ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  26 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Amy Gahran

The Social Web: A Map for Visual Learners

Anyone can help edit Brian Solis' map of the social Web by annotating the image on Flickr. Solis debuted this image in his Aug. 5 PR 2.0 post. Its purpose is to "help chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  21 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Flickr,  Wikipedia,  Drupal

Newsprint Abandoning Chicken Dinners: Hyperlocal Sites Complicit?

What I've found disturbing about this move has been the behind-the-scenes conversations about my hyperlocal site. "Let MyTopiaCafe.com pick up the slack," "Let people type their own community news," "Let MyTopiaCafe.com field all the community calls," ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  9 Jul 2008

Knight Commission to Answer: "Oh, Mother is it Worth It?"

Women from Gee's Bend work on a quilt during the 2005 ONB Magic City Art Connection in Linn Park, Birmingham, Ala. Your success metrics might be economic (i.e., advertising dollars), or based on participation (i.e., number of registered users). Or they ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Walter Isaacson,  Aspen Institute

LoudounExtra.com Needed More "Touch"

A few years ago, I moved from Washington, D.C. to a very rural community. When I traveled down those country roads, I'd be absolutely tickled when folks out in their yards would look up and wave as I passed by. They didn't know me, but they still ...

From MICHELLE FERRIER, E-media Tidbits,  6 Jun 2008

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