Street Fight Summit

Street Fight has just announced the line-up for Street Fight Summit, a two-day conference in New York City on October 25-26 where industry leaders from companies like SeeClickFix, Yipit, Foursquare, Gilt City, Patch, and Topix will convene to discuss the burgeoning hyperlocal marketplace.

Our own Kam Lasater (@seekayel), SeeClickFix co-founder, will be a featured speaker at the summit where he will discuss alternative revenue models. With old media trying to figure out how to save their local markets and small indie blogs feeling indignant about corporate media encroaching on their space, all parties have a big stake in the business models that will survive in the hyperlocal marketplace. Attendees of the Street Fight Summit will hear from industry leaders, such as Lasater, who are blazing the path to sustainable hyperlocal business.

Learn more about the conference here. 

Keizertimes Kicks Off New Citizen Reporting Tool

This just in: our media partners are awesome.

Okay, so while this information might not be breaking news, it's definitely true! Since our launch in 2008, hundreds of media outlets have partnered with SeeClickFix to help empower their audience, improve their communities and generate unique, hyperlocal content. Not only that, media outlets utilizing SeeClickFix have played a significant part in helping us happily say that over 50% of issues reported through our online platform have been resolved offline. From The Washington Post to the 18 dailies published by the Journal Register Company, some big names in news are SeeClickFixin'! While you may not have heard of our latest media partner, we think you'll be just as excited as we are about them!

Keizertimes, the newspaper in Keizer, OR, is a weekly publication and news site focused solely on news and events within the Keizer community. With a staff of two full time employees, Keizertimes will be using our platform to engage their readers while improving Keizer, one fix at a time. The paper launched SeeClickFix late last week and published a story about our partnership in the August 1 edition. After helping managing editor Jason Cox get set up with our widgets and sharing examples of how powerful media can be in getting issues fixed, we were thrilled that he shared our same enthusiasm with his readers.

“This partnership goes hand-in-hand with our commitment to increasing civic participation and covering Keizer like no one else can,” said Managing Editor Jason Cox. “We’re happy to provide our readers this service and allow them an easy, anonymous way to report issues in their community.”

Adding to our excitement about our partnership, Keizertimes staff will be following up with local officials about issues in their area and reporting on the progress of fixes to their readers concerns. Citizens, media and local government working together to solve problems and improve their community - it doesn't get any better than this, folks!

BHAM Goes The Terminal

"Think of it as a digital 311 system." At least, that's how our newest media partner, The Terminal, described SeeClickFix after recently embedding our nifty widget on its website.

Launched in 2007, The Terminal is a web publication focused on disseminating information in and about Birmingham and surrounding areas. With the old Birmingham Terminal Station as its namesake, The Terminal has become a modern and virtual social hub of its own. Thanks to managing editor (and friend!) André Natta, SeeClickFix will now be adding to this public dialogue in BHAM. André nicely summarizes how his fellow citizens (and media outlets) can take advantage of our tool:

Non-emergencies reported via the widget embedded on our site or via any of the mobile apps available are shared directly with City Hall’s 311 Call Center [...] The more folks using the service, the more effective it can be. Video and photo submissions are also accepted. Selfishly, it also provides an opportunity for local media outlets to get an idea of what’s going on out there (though nothing really replaces face-to-face – or just getting out there – but it helps).

With SeeClickFix widgets, media outlets can be kept informed about issues directly impacting the communities they serve in real-time. By allowing residents to report issues directly through its site, The Terminal can connect with its audience over these shared concerns and even lead to resolution along the way. Like André said, it's time to SeeClickFix Birmingham!