Portland Social Media

Announcing Public Press

By Greg Passmore

This is Truth and Gauss from a new social media service called “Public Press”. Public Press is a digital newspaper where anybody can instantly publish, organize, and archive news and information about their neighborhood or community. Citizen reporters can upload hyperlocal content anytime from any device that can send email or access the web. Readers can subscribe to newspaper feeds and browse neighborhood news 24×7.

We’ve been working on Public Press for over 18 months. We’re ready to open our website to the world next week. To help us work out last minute bugs and create a smooth social media experience, we’re looking for users to help us finish beta testing the site. Please go to http://www.publicpress.org/alchemy/invitation.jsp to sign up for an account. The invitation code is “community”. Starting next week, you won’t need an invitation code or need to be logged in to see the site.

Our hope is to enrich local communities by improving communication between neighbors. Public Press is a Portland-based company. Please join us and help make Portland the epicenter for social media and citizen journalism.

Thanks,
Truth & Gauss
Public Press
http://publicpress.org

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