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• New Business Models for News

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Local media is the focus of the journalism conference circuit. Estimates claim $100 billion in local-ad revenue could support local news and information projects, if it could only be successfully tapped. This follows the Knight Commission for ...
  16 hours ago

• Jeff Jarvis’ HyperCamp on New Business Models for News

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  A “ hypercamp ”  dedicated to New Business Models for News was held yesterday in New York City by The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, lead by Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine .  We weren’t there – wrong coast-  and nothing is on the site yet.  But the free event had a strong lineup of speakers from all ...
  2 days ago

• Sacramento Press’ Model Blends HyperLocal with Social Media Management

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Hyperlocal models continue experimenting  with ways to make it work on a standalone basis. Networks, ecommerce and other revenue streams have all been tried out. BackFence vet Mark Potts has even set up GrowthSpur as a consulting firm and national network specifically to leverage the clout of Hyperlocal sites. A ...
  4 days ago

• The PLENTY [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 134
  Piedmont Local EcoNomy Tender
  5 days ago

• MSN’s Cyrus Krohn: The New Local Focus

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Microsoft ‘s MSN has been a good hodgepodge  that gets 100 million users a month. But it hasn’t  had a serious redo for ten years. So the question posed to a new team brought in to redo the site was: how do you make the site standout and really help users? Site leader Scott Moore and Cyrus Krohn, a top ...
  1 week ago

• MSN’s Cyrus Krohn: The New Local Focus

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  Microsoft ‘s MSN has been a good hodgepodge that gets 100 million users a month. But it hasn’t had a serious redo for ten years. So the question posed to a new team brought in to redo the site was: how do you make the site standout and really help users? Site leader Scott Moore and Cyrus Krohn, a top ...
  1 week ago

• TheDigitel.com Brings Human Context to Local News Aggregation

  
  learning.now — Authority: 676
  Many news websites are working to refocus on local news, and often this means turning to automated aggregation. One hyper-local startup in Charleston, S.C., is blending links, community and visuals to try and redefine aggregation by giving it a human context. TheDigitel.com was launched by Ken Hawkins in June ...
  1 week ago

• Howdy, Howzee

  
  Extranet Evolution — Authority: 417
  At Be2camp@WorkingBuildings last month, I met Tuomas Saarelainen who told me to have a look at his Helsinki, Finland-based company Mobimus and its service howzee.info - which I have just done. It is an intriguing concept, but currently only sketchily described (and with no website screenshots to give some idea ...
  1 week ago

• Hyper-local platform drives retail sales online

  
  BizReport — Authority: 541
  A new platform from Goodway Groups online advertising network Beep! Automotive is having an interesting impact on local advertising. The platform, called Direct2Dealer, uses cross-channel advertising to engage and convert consumers. The platform gives local marketers the ability to target to specific regions, cities ...
  1 week ago

• Allbritton Combines Two D.C.-Area TV Station Sites Into Local Portal

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Allbritton Communications will merge its two Washington, D.C.-area TV station sites — WJLA.com and News8.net — and build a new 50-person local D.C. site behind former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady, who developed the concept. The site will be run adjacent to Politico , Allbritton’s successful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Allbrittron Combines Two DC-Area TV Station Sites into Local Portal

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  Allbritton Communications will merge its two Washington D.C. area TV station sites—WJLA.com and News8.net –and build a new, 50 person local DC site behind former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady, who developed the concept. The site will be run adjacent to Politico , Allbritton’s successful, all politics ...
  2 weeks ago

• Armstrong: IYP ‘More Important, Not Less;’ Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Spreads

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  AOL CEO Tim Armstong, interviewed by John Battelle at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, gave a thumbs up to the future of the  Yellow Pages – at least, the Internet Yellow Pages. Noting that the Internet YP business is largely synonymous with small business marketing,  Armstrong said  that IYP “looks like early ...
  2 weeks ago

• Armstrong: IYP ‘More Important, Not Less;’ Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Spreads

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  AOL CEO Tim Armstong, interviewed by John Battelle at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, gave a thumbs up to the future of the Yellow Pages – at least, the Internet Yellow Pages. Noting that the Internet YP business is largely synonymous with small business marketing, Armstrong said that IYP “looks like early search. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Brixton Pound | Money that sticks to Brixton [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 134
  A hyperlocal currency keeping money in a local economy & encouraging local trade. The anti-euro?
  2 weeks ago

• Ex-Chicago Trib Staffers to Provide Chicago Content for NY Times

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Local news blogs may have trouble making their economics work. But what if their content can be picked up and paid for by major media outlets? That’s the model behind the Chicago News Cooperative (CNC), a new organization of former Chicago Tribune staffers. The CNC, which has received start-up funding by The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ex-Chicago Trib Staffers to Provide Chicago Content for NY Times

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  Local news blogs may have trouble making their economics work. But what if their content can be picked up and paid for by major media outlets? That’s the model behind the Chicago News Cooperative (CNC), a new organization of former Chicago Tribune staffers. The CNC, which has received start-up funding by The ...
  3 weeks ago

• CitySquares Celebrates Its 4th Year!

  
  The CitySquares Blog — Authority: 106
  October 16, 2009 marked the fourth year for CitySquares.com , a reflective milestone for co-founders Ben Saren and Bob Leland who recognize the successes and growth of CitySquares.com since its launch in 2005. CitySquares.com began as a small website with information about local businesses in seven Boston area ...
  3 weeks ago

• CitySquares Featured in WSJ: ‘Valuable Tips, For Free’

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 468
  CitySquares , the Boston-based city guide company, is prominently featured in the “Small Business” section of The Wall Street Journal today (subscription required). The subject? Its frequent use of volunteer advisors (something we have first-hand knowledge of, actually). The article boasts a big picture of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Local Media Vets Launch Oakland Local

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Hyperlocal sites are often run by earnest people who have just enough naivite about them to put in the hours and chase the dream, right?  Former Yahoo and NJ.com exec Susan Mernit probably doesn’t qualify. But Mernit, a 10-year resident of the Bay Area, is nevertheless chasing the dream at Oakland Local, . ...
  3 weeks ago

• Matchbin Brings Web 2.0 Services to the Boonies

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 548
  Matchbin , a venture-backed firm based in Bountiful, Utah, is banking on aggregating rural and exurban audiences by providing community media companies with a full slate of advertising and social tools, rather than just providing one dimensional local search. The six-year-old, 40 person company, settled on its ...
  4 weeks ago

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