{"id":8059,"date":"2011-03-22T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:00:11","slug":"everyblock-another-uber-local-site-for-community-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/everyblock-another-uber-local-site-for-community-news\/","title":{"rendered":"EveryBlock: Another uber-local site for community news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/everyblock-top-of-page-2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/everyblock-top-of-page-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8062 aligncenter\" title=\"everyblock top of page 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/everyblock-top-of-page-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/everyblock-top-of-page.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another hyperlocal website to add to your publicity toolbox: EveryBlock,\u00a0perfect for publicizing local news in bigger cities, and also for finding other local blogs and media outlets you might not know about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC.com<\/a> bought it in 2009 and unveiled the new version yesterday.\u00a0 It operates in 16 cities mostly on the east and west coasts: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>EveryBlock offers news <strong>down to the block level <\/strong>and encourages collaboraton among neighbors.\u00a0 Enter any address in one of those cities and you\u2019ll see news articles, blog coverage, crime reports and a wide variety of other local information, all updated throughout the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can also submit your own news, <strong>which they don&#8217;t edit<\/strong>.\u00a0 Create a free account, and you can participate in discussions and even get email updates.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>3 Main Types of News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civic information, including building permits, crimes, restaurant inspections and more.\u00a0 In many cases, this information is already on the Web but is buried in hard-to-find government databases.\u00a0 In other cases, the data hasn&#8217;t been posted online, but Everyblock gets it through government agencies.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>News articles and blog entries, including information from major newspapers, community weeklies, TV and radio news stations, local specialty publications and local blogs.\u00a0 If you can track down a local blogger who you didn&#8217;t know about, you can start pitching that blogger when you have local news to share. I found Meetups and even school reviews for Atlanta.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Fun from across the Web, including local photos posted to the Flickr photo-sharing site, user reviews of local businesses on Yelp, and lost and found postings from Craigslist.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll even find local deals from Groupon and ValPak.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This site is perfect for news from clubs and civic groups, schools, nonprofits, churches, political campaigns and neighborhood groups, and it&#8217;s continually updated daily throughout the day. EveryBlock welcomes you to draw a map of your own neighborhood\u00a0(the example here is from Atlanta) if you don&#8217;t see it on the master list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It differs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Patch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Patch.com<\/a>\u00a0because EveryBlock\u00a0concentrates on larger motropolitan areas. Patch\u00a0is for suburbs and outlying areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m adding EveryBlock to the long list I&#8217;ve already accumulated and shared on the webinar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">50+ Places Online to Promote Your Live or Virtual Events to Reach Your Target Market &amp; Pull Sell-out Crowds<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Share a Tip for Using\u00a0EveryBlock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you already using EveryBlock? If so, share tips on exactly how you use it, or how it has saved time for you.<\/p>\n<p>If not,\u00a0how will you integrate it into your publicity campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another hyperlocal website to add to your publicity toolbox: EveryBlock,\u00a0perfect for publicizing local news in bigger cities, and also for finding other local blogs and media outlets you might not know about. MSNBC.com bought it in 2009 and unveiled the new version yesterday.\u00a0 It operates in 16 cities mostly on the east and west\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/everyblock-another-uber-local-site-for-community-news\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[634,641,645,605,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-8059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-craigslist","8":"tag-flickr","9":"tag-free-social-media-tools","10":"tag-news-events","11":"tag-yelp","12":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}