Over the last few months we've noticed that the simple addition of the Tweetmeme "Retweet" button has led to way more stories from InJersey making their way onto Twitter. The reason, we think, is simple: After you post a comment here, you can also put it on Twitter for all your followers to hear what you had to say.
Of course, there's plenty of people who like to share to Facebook, too. Previously, you could always use the handy "ShareThis" button to do this, but we like the simplicity of the Retweet button (not to mention the count of the total number of times something has been shared). So, we've now added this same type of button to share stories on Facebook.
November is shaping up to have a slew of big hyperlocal events. Here are the biggies on our list:
Nov. 9 – New Media Women Entrepreneurs, Washington D.C.: A day-long gathering of blockbuster speakers, all of them women, and almost all of them working on hyperlocal news sites. Although I may not be able to make it to D.C. for the event, I’d particularly love to hear Debbie Galant, of Baristanet.com, and Lisa Williams, of Placeblogger.com.
Nov. 11 – Hypercamp, NYC:This is one I absolutely won’t miss. I’ve been working with Jeff Jarvis and his team at CUNY (”New Business Models for News”) to set up a day-long event devoted to how to improve the quality of hyperlocal news sites, and also how to monetize them once they’re built. Should be an amazing lineup of speakers, including Jarvis himself.
Nov. 14-15 – WordCamp NYC: While not technically hyperlocal, since InJersey is all built on WordPress MU and BuddyPress, as are most of the blog-based hyperlocal sites out there, this is going to be a very important event for me. It’s arguably the biggest and best WordCamp event outside of the San Fran one.
Nov. 18 – Citizen Journalism Conference, Monmouth U, West Long Branch, NJ:I’m scheduled to speak at this free half-day event being put on by the Citizens Campaign, a non-profit aiming to help promote citizen journalism and civic engagement. My panel’s discussion: “The New Media Climate: How the internet is transforming journalism and its impact on local government & politics.”
Should be a wild couple weeks. If you’re planning to go to any of these as well, drop us a note on the InJersey wall and let us know.
This last Tuesday I appeared on WordPress Weekly, an internet-based radio show, to talk about what we're trying to do here on InJersey.com -- and in general about the whole hyperlocal news trend.
It was a fun show, and I'm grateful to the host Jeff Chandler for featuring us (even if he did keep referring to me, erroneously, as Todd). Here's a replay:
You can download the show as a podcast on iTunes here.
We just launched in Somerset Hills, an area of NJ that encompasses Basking Ridge, Bedminster, Bernards, Peapack, Far Hills, Gladstone, and Bernardsville.
After the break is the story that ran in the paper to promote the new town site.
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