User-generated community publication in an online neighborhood social network
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1. A method comprising:
- generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a verified physical location and a privacy setting of the users;
automatically generating a community publication based on the article submitted by a community journalist at a periodically occurring interval, wherein the community journalist is a resident of a private neighborhood constrained only to neighbors living in the private neighborhood through the online neighborhood social network; and
publishing the community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to an electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available in the private neighborhood of the online neighborhood social network.
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Abstract
A method of user-generated community publication in an online neighborhood social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprising generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a verified physical location and a privacy setting of the users; automatically generating a community publication based on the article submitted by a community journalist at a periodically occurring interval, wherein the community journalist is a resident of a private neighborhood constrained only to neighbors living in the private neighborhood through the online neighborhood social network; and publishing the community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to an electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available in the private neighborhood of the online neighborhood social network.
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1. A method comprising:
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generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a verified physical location and a privacy setting of the users; automatically generating a community publication based on the article submitted by a community journalist at a periodically occurring interval, wherein the community journalist is a resident of a private neighborhood constrained only to neighbors living in the private neighborhood through the online neighborhood social network; and publishing the community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to an electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available in the private neighborhood of the online neighborhood social network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method comprising:
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generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a physical location and an electronic location of the users; processing a user selection of at least one indicator of a submit-a-story-idea indicator and a become-a-journalist indicator; processing a submission form when the submit-a-story-idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted stow idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time; transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become-a-journalist indicator; altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author; determining a timer for a duration of a checked out status of the submitted story idea, and resetting the timer when the community journalist authors an article based on the submitted stow idea and submits the article to a journalism algorithm; automatically determining a continuing qualification of the community journalist based on responses to the timer, and at least one of a peer feedback rating and a reader feedback rating of the article authored by the community journalist; automatically generating a community publication based on the article and other articles submitted by other community journalists at a periodically occurring interval; publishing, a community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to the electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available; creating a postal mailing of the community publication to another subset of the targeted users based on a mailing to the physical location of the targeted users, wherein the another subset of the targeted users have at least one of a subscription to the community publication and which are targeted as being possibly interested in the community publication; automatically generating the community publication in any of a selectable number of languages based on readership preferences of the members of the group and a moderator user who serves as an editor and publisher of the community publication in the online neighborhood social network; embedding in the name of the community publication a name of an operator of the geospatial environment; and automatically repositioning the article in an electronic version of the community publication based on a popularity of the article as elected by readers of the article in the electronic version of the community publication, wherein the community publication is generated to a group based on at least one of a geographic location of the group, a common professional interests of the group, a religious affiliation of the soup, a friendship between members of the group, an educational institution associated with the group, a cultural affiliation of the group, a political interest of the group, and a social interest of the group. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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