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Thursday, March 11, 2010
If this year’s ice storm is anything like the one we experienced last year, it could be difficult to find information for a few days. Hopefully, a new feature we’ve just launched can provide a little help.
The Flyer Wire is a community-powered microsite that’s designed to track real-time information on Twitter and photos on Flickr related to a specific topic.
The current topic, of course, is the ice storm that will most likely hit our area sometime in the next day or two and the Flyer Wire will be pulling in tweets that are marked with the “#nwaicestorm10″ hashtag and Flickr photos that are tagged with “#nwaicestorm10.”
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Last week, we put out a call for local bloggers to submit their blogs to be listed in a local blog directory.
We hit a few speed bumps along the way but have since recovered and are pleased to announce the Flyer Blogfolio.
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If you have a blog and you live in Northwest Arkansas (or used to live here), we’d love to list your site here on the Flyer in a new directory we’re creating.
It doesn’t cost any money or anything like that. We’re simply trying to collect as many local blogs as possible so we can organize them into categories.
It’ll be kinda like the Twitter Guide in that we’ll have blog names, descriptions and of course, a link available.
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Last month, we began publishing public meetings information here on the Flyer. And by “public meetings” I mean city council meetings, ward meetings, planning commission meetings, etc.
So far, we’ve published 35 days worth of public meeting information but we still haven’t gotten a whole lot of traffic on those posts. They’re certainly not the most exciting things to read, I know. But despite that and the small amount of pageviews they’ve gotten, I’m still convinced there’s value in publishing them.
FAQs…
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For a while now, we’ve been trying to figure out an informal way to post brief notes, site ideas, commentary, questions, contest winners, etc.
On plenty of occasions, we’ve found ourselves asking, “What section does this fit into?” Oftentimes, the post idea gets completely scrapped simply because we didn’t feel we had a proper channel for it. Other times, we turned to Twitter or Facebook.
