How Community Blogs Become A Tool For City-Making — The Pop-Up City
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City blogging is a great tool to share ideas around the world toward better urban futures, but it’s also a potent tool for hyper-local community development.
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Local mobile search stats
94% of local users have looked for local information
-90% have taken action as a result
-70% connected with the business
-66% visited the business
-36% made a purchase
-23% told others about it
58% search for local info at least once a week
27% search for local info daily
Source: Google-Ipsos Q1 2012, n=1,000 US adults
“We wrote in late 2011 about some early research suggesting that many Twitter users in fact follow other people located within their same city, evidence, Richard Florida wrote, that the Internet is reinforcing the value of place instead of eliminating it.
But now that Twitter is a few years older – and considerably more global – Leetaru and several colleagues have conducted a massive new analysis of the site that suggests the opposite: ‘In effect,’ Leetrau says, ‘location plays a much lesser role now in terms of who we talk to, what we talk about, and where we get our information.’”
Read: How Twitter is Changing the Geography of Communication
(via humanscalecities)
That’s how we do directions in London town.
When Governments Go Social, Positive Citizen Experiences Can Follow | A Smarter Planet Blog
Today a growing number of cities and counties are embracing social technologies to create “Smart Communities.” According to the World Foundation for Smart Communities, these are communities that make a “conscious effort to use information technology to transform life and work within a region in significant and fundamental, rather than incremental, ways. This transformation is beneficial to the community and attracts local participation and cooperation among community groups, government, business and education.”
“The idea here was pretty simple,” she said in an interview. “I wanted to fill the intersection with color — to have a presence at this busy site that could withstand all the cars and trucks and people and at the same time interact with them.”
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A print ad that doubles as a 45.
“Budweiser has released a vinyl single that’s quite a bit cooler than your average 7-inch. To promote its partnership in Brazil with Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, the Anheuser-Busch InBev brand pressed his new song “Great Times” into a vinyl magazine advertisement playable on any turntable.”
Cranes and chimneys.
