Archive for the ‘Locally Informed Blog’ Category
There’ll be a new voice reporting on the events of the upcoming Rugby World Cup in New Zealand later this year. Phillip Heath of Northland News in Whangarei has been awarded full media accreditation and we wanted to take a moment to congratulate him on this and for the great work he’s been doing on [...]
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Locally Informed Changes!
Our apologies for being so quiet lately. We’ve been hard at work on some big changes and we’d like to tell you all about them! From the outset, Locally Informed has been about empowering and connecting communities by equiping journalists(our community editors) in new ways to independently report on local news and information. It’s also [...]
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Tags: crowdsourcing, hyperlocal, local crowdsourcing, local news, local wiki, news, news platform, wiki, wiki platform
Week in review – 4 June 2010
In case you’ve missed something this last week, here’s a short summary of the top news on Locally Informed. Auckland Govt accepts Labour amendment to super city bill National Business Review Flooding in upper North Island TVNZ Candlelight vigil and protest march against Israel Scoop Whangarei & Northland Council accused of vandalising wetland reserve [...]
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Recently we’ve been asked to clarify parts of the Marketplace and how they work. So, we thought we’d take a step back and see if we could help to clear things up a little. After some careful thought, we decided to make a few important changes. We hope you’ll take a look. Wondering who will [...]
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Tags: crowdsourcing, marketplace
The Real Estate page of Locally Informed, found here, will: Save you time when searching for a new house Help keep you informed of what’s going up for sale around you. How will it do that? Let’s take a closer look. Real Estate is listed in two columns. The first are Residential properties. The second, [...]
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Tags: real estate
New Features Added – 22 Feb 2010
Today we made a few updates, including: View Count for holders of Marketplace Contests/Contracts Additional Detail in Upcoming News list Corrected error in RSS Feeds that some were experiencing
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Latest News Sources Added
News being searched at LocallyInformed now includes: National Business Review Chamber’s of Commerce from around NZ Rugby and Cricket club news Know of local NZ news not found on Locally Informed? Let us know. More sources added regularly.
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Perfect Use of Locally Informed
A story posted a few days ago on Locally Informed illustrates a perfect use of the website. Here we find news that’s not found anywhere else: http://locallyinformed.co.nz/news/news/2010/02/11/new-cycle-lanes-for-guppy-road Someone in their neighbourhood who went out to see what all the fuss was about, turned around and informed their neighbours. Keep up the good work!
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New Features Added – 15 Feb 2010
The latest at Locally Informed, released today, includes: New ability to “Tell Someone” about a Contest or Contract listing in the Marketplace. If you know of someone who might be interested in solving/finding a solution, easily tell them about it. List and Unlink functions for Comments List, Unlink, and Paragraph styling for Stories, Local Knowledge Pages [...]
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What’s the Marketplace About?
The simplest description of the Solution Marketplace, is as a place for you and the people of your community to list tasks and challenges and ask the community to help solve them.
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