Sarah Hartley

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The technology behind the sites will be licensed at a one-off cost of £1250.00 and £125.00 a month for a 12-month period after. Twenty licences have been offered at a reduced rate for the first users to sign up.

Essex County Council made more than £50,000 from selling comms services in the past 12 months. Westminster is believed to have made significantly more but the council failed to provide a figure when approached by PRWeek.

The trend is expected to grow as Northamptonshire County Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council finalise plans to sell comms services to other public bodies such as other councils, primary care trusts and police forces.

Early adopters tended to be geeks or extroverts (I might be both). But Hyper 2.0 could be titled The Rise of the Digital Entrepreneurs.

The focus is now on how to monetize the effort and the audience. Without sufficient capital flow, no business can be sustainable.

A good community news site isn't built much differently than a good blog. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, let's borrow some of the best features developed for bloggers and use them to offer your readers a better experience using your site.

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Few newspapers earn the right to describe themselves as local. It is even more laughable for a television channel to describe itself as local when it broadcasts – in my area, for example – to homes west of Bournemouth, north of Oxford, and east of Dover.

Perhaps those involved in "hyperlocal journalism" should forget the hype and assert ownership of the simple word "local".

What Patch can add to traditional outlets is experience in an area where many of the jobs of the future might be: at community news outlets looking for versatile reporters and curators. Papper noted that it's a different world for jouranlism students: “There are a lot of very traditional jobs out there and there are an even bigger number of non-traditional jobs out there.”

PayPal also announced embedded payments, which allows developers to insert direct purchases on any site, including Facebook with only a few lines of code. So purchasers can just click the “Pay with PayPal” button and checkout without having to leave the page. The company demoed the product using a Payvment storefront on Facebook.

"What are the digital trends that will shape the media industry? I asked three digital media experts. Here are their answers."

In an attempt to democratise and broaden coverage, I worry that the 100% solution actually hands over the reins to the worst instincts of editors in the same way that the hunt for pageviews can damage good journalism. I worry that it encourages a sort of journalistic presenteeism.

"I’m no longer a stay-at-home mom with a business on the side. I’m the sole breadwinner for my family — earning enough to allow my husband to quit his soul-sucking job — and a leader in my field."

Kinshasa — Soft power can be tedious, exhausting, frustrating. A hundred U.S. Army doctors and medics are in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, to train several hundred medics from the Congolese Forces Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo.

If you can deliver local news this quickly through an integrated website and social media then why create an expensive traditional TV broadcasting based option?

Community organisations across England are invited to apply to the 18-month programme. NESTA will select ten organisations and provide them with funding to trial an approach to community organising that reflects their own vision for what will work best in their area.

The model is not focused on the processes of journalism; news professionals are wrestling those new forms and demands to the ground every day. It is based rather on establishing a revenue foundation that can finance their work and retain the institutional form of journalism as a central thread in the civic and social fabric of a local community.

What’s exciting is this approach can be easily mimicked in any community. Pick a day, gather some journalists, find a free public space and open up shop! Judith plans to bring the open-shop approach to the refugee community in London and my mind is spinning with ideas for other settings too.

As we ran the blogs day to day, we began seeing patterns and picking up knowledge, and we decided that it was important for us to be open and transparent and to actively share what we were learning with the journalism and blogging community at large.

The Mayor's office has begun to release some remarkable new data about London in a new website. The first data to be released mainly comes from the emergency services, breaking down details by ward. I beleive that we can use data as a community to drive better public services in the neighbourhood.

With small audiences you need much lighter regulation. As with other aspects of policy set by the coalition government it’s about moving from rules to trust.

About 300 to 500 jobs are posted on Twitter per minute, according to Carmen Hudson, CEO and co-founder of Tweetajob. With that many shared opportunities, the task of filtering information becomes daunting — that’s why we have hashtags. They can help you focus on the tweets you want to see along with the ones you didn’t even know existed.

The 24 hours was interesting and a useful piece of work that got people talking about the serious issue of what people want from their police. However, it is what happens from here that is the most critical issue for all police and public sector agencies. What more can we do to provide people with that opportunity to see things live? How can we really introduce open data? And are we able to make a move from traditional communication to embrace the opportunities of social media?

Over time, I have discovered that people better understand when I tell them I build community websites instead of explaining I am a hyperlocal blogger.

Finally I was convinced that journalism itself would have to change. Old fashioned legacy newspaper journalism still has its value, but journalists will have to “open up” themselves: learn from the experiences from blogging and – most important – replace the old role as a messenger for a new one as an intermediate: break down the castle and and build a market place. Go look for the symbiosis between the professional (who still has the skills and the experience) and the amateur (who has the knowledge and could want to share it).

Give the increasing amount of raw data that organisations are pumping out journalists will find themselves vital in making sure that they stay accountable. But I said in an earlier post that good journalists don’t need to know how to do everything, they just need to know who to ask.

Apart from the statistics and geo-locations, the data can also be analysed against social categories (such as occupations – “taxi drivers” or “landlords”) and social places (such as restaurants, pubs, hotels and toilets). Look up on the category “social places”, there were 7 incidents taking place in hotels. And the tag clouds showed the hotels were at Manchester City Centre, Wigan, and Ashley-u-Lyne, and related to drunk, women, abuse, assault, theft.

Yuwei Lin and Enrico Zini took the stage and First Prize for the final police project, a GMP tweet database, and showed a very neat search tool that allowed analysis of certain aspects of the police data (3257 items).

Everything has to be local, even the advertising. Local on mobile and web. The key is to build a sustainable business model around the offered hyperlocal information, plus a way for journalism to reinvent itself.
Being local first requires action. Brouwers gives 20 golden rules of how to act on a local media market:

The Your Town program, Fiedler said, “offers benefits for both community residents, who gain from increased news and information about their neighborhoods, and our students, who learn journalism by doing it under the guidance of our faculty and Globe editors.’’

It may be that these citizen publishers are deliberately cultivating sources of references to empower their professional or vocational activities. It’s a kind of Citizen Journal Publishing.