Trouble Linkbuilding? Write the Copy

Today, Case Ernsting writes in the Search Engine Journal how finding new ways to attract inbound links is one of the hardest parts of SEO.  As part of this perspective, he describes how every SEO expert should be aware of WikiCity Guides to help further their efforts for local SEO.  Read more: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/trouble-linkbuilding-write-the-copy/22280/#ixzz0sNeHBbPw

WikiCity Guides Offers Event Calendars to 22K+ Communities

WikiCity Guides is pleased to announce that it now offers over 22,000 community event calendars across the United States.  With this addition, users are able to add and improve upon millions of upcoming local events.  With this additional content, we hope to provide some of the most comprehensive event listings across the communities we serve.

Hyperlocal WikiCity Guides Features Kimball, Nebraska!

Welcome to Kimball, Nebraska

Kimball is a city in Kimball County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,559 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kimball County.

Kimball is located in the southwestern corner of the Nebraska Panhandle, and bills itself literally as the “The High Point of Nebraska!”. In fact, Panorama Point is 5,424 feet above sea level, and is marked by a small monument located just outside of the town. For more information, please visit the Kimball – Banner County Chamber of Commerce.

Wiki journalism: the experiences of WikiCity Guides

Thanks to Paul Bradshaw and his Online Journalism Blog for allowing us to contribute an article outlining our experiences building and growing WikiCity Guides.  Within this contributed post we outline (i.) key factors driving online journalism, (ii.) Journalism as the new “Wild West”, (iii.) and the evolution of the WikiCity Guides project in relation to hyperlocal news and wiki journalism as a whole. 

Please visit Paul’s blog to read the entire post: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/05/20/wiki-journalism-the-experiences-of-wikicity-guides/

Nebraska Entrepreneurship Education Features WikiCity Guides

Special thanks to Gregg Christensen from the Nebraska Department of Education for spotlighting WikiCity Guides as part of his March/April Entrepreneur Newsletter .  As part of this coverage, Gregg highlights WikiCity Guides, its role within the collaborative “new media” space, and how it can be used in an educational setting.  Again, Gregg, thank you.

Editor & Publisher Magazine: Nebraska’s ‘Wahoo Newspaper’ Partners with Hyperlocal WikiCity Guides

Thanks to Editor & Publisher magazine for helping us share our story about our recent partnership with the Wahoo Newspaper.  We’re very excited this new partnership, so special thanks to Shawn from E & P!

Wahoo Newspaper Partners with WikiCity Guides

Thanks to DeManda, Lisa, &  Shon at the Wahoo Newspaper and Jennifer at the Wahoo Chamber for helping to share our the WikiCity Guides story!

 

In other news, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine asks “What is content?”  He goes on to say that content is everywhere and with new media, we are all content creators.  http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/04/07/what-is-content-then/#comments 

WikiCity Guides Ranked as Largest Wiki in the World

Just noticed today that Wikimedia has recognized WikiCity Guides as the largest wiki in the world with nearly 13 million articles. 

For more information and complete rankings, visit Wikimedia’s list of the largest wikis: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis

Hyperlocal WikiCity Features Wahoo, NE!

 

Saunders County Fair Parade

Wahoo is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,942 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Saunders County, the location of the “home office” that produces the top-10 list for David Letterman’s Late Show, and is an all-around haven for small town FUN!.

For more information about Wahoo, check out the Wahoo Answers page.

WikiLeaks.org Held for Ransom, Needs Funding

WikiLeaks has temporarily suspended its operations, citing funding problems as the reason for why the site is no longer operationally available.  Instead, the staff has decided to close the site while it focuses on its fundraising efforts.

Wikileaks is a website that published anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. The site is of course a wiki (one of our fav’s), which brilliantly offers anonymous tip-offs and submissions regarding sensitive information.  The closure comes as a bit of a suprise because the technical costs to actually run a wiki are relatively nominal, and as WikiLeaks’ home page suggests, most of the $600K needed will be spent on staffing – not the direct costs related to web hosting.  As such it seems that WikiLeaks could have continued operations while launching its fundraising campaign.  Wikileaks states in its website that it will resume full operation once the operational costs have been covered.  Of course, had they done so, we probably wouldn’t be talking about WikiLeaks and its need for funds.  Regardless, please consider helping fund the randsom note so that this terrific site can return to the mainstream.