In honor of what's coming to be know as iTablet week -- or is it iSlate? -- we wanted to make our own little offering to the Apple Gods. The InJersey iPhone app is simplified little interface you can use to browse through the latest updates on InJersey, or your town. It isn't the first self-described "hyperlocal" app -- I counted four others, not to mention related apps like SeeClickFix and Fwix -- and I'm sure it won't be the last.
You can't yet publish using the app, though that's something we'd like to build into it in the not-so-distant future. For now, though, you can download the WordPress 2 app and add your InJersey site of choice, and you'll be able to publish on the go using that.
A visitor to InJersey, Jim Parker, just let me know about a video of my presentation at WordCamp NYC that's up on the web. In it, I recap what we're trying to do with hyperlocal jounalism on InJersey, as well as the software we're using here -- WordPress and BuddyPress. Many thanks to Jim for the head's up, as well as the kind soul who shot this. Enjoy!
Our Freehold site editor, Colleen Curry, has a great blog post today on the SeeClickFix blog about all the great ways that our users have taken advantage of the tool to report issues in their communities that need fixing. Check out the full post here:
Hi there, SeeClickFix folks. My name is Colleen Curry, and I run Freehold.InJersey.com, a hyperlocal news website in New Jersey and one of Gannett's first hyperlocal sites in the country. We've been using SeeClickFix on our site for a few months now, and it has helped engage our readers, generate stories, and impel action in our local community. Ben asked me to share a few of these highlights with you.
