beyond coffee, cigarettes, and the morning paper: building hyperlocal news systems & engaging...

Hyperlocalizing in Seward

A presentation by Peter Fleck

pfhyper@gmail.com

Newspapers are dying.

Entire media landscape is transforming.

Where do we begin redefining?

Rethink the whole thing. Go local!

Engage community. Crowd source.

Set up a permanent ongoing repository of community information that is searchable and that

outlasts any single individual.

A documentary in progress.

Collect the important & the trivial. Online, unlimited

storage allows this.

No worries about column inches

Rooted in community

&

evangelist availablevs.

Top-down offering

of “sites available.”

It takesfeet on the ground,

real life, face-to-face connections.

Hyperlocal isn’t new but

• Often try to emulate newspapers inc. ads and editor/reporter hierarchy

• Or it’s one person blogging pro bono until burnout

• Leaving relics of blogs ‘round the Internet

No Ads

Seek indirect support

from businesses

PF HYPERLOCAL

• An organization to help communities start a vibrant hyperlocal news & discussion system

• Free web + sharing at web site

• Setup/Subscription fee for more help

• Social business rather than nonprofit

• Offer for-fee services to corporations, schools, ??? • Basically, how to create a vibrant and sustainable news

community

Posterous 

Email is main interface. from account setup to

embedding video

Posterous 

Automatically connects toTwitterFacebookFlickrYouTubeWordPressmore

My Questions• What do you think of the concepts?

• Can PFHyperLocal be a social business rather than a nonprofit?

• Other ideas? Other relevant sites to pull in to the system?

• What are you doing?

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