Filtering by Neighborhood

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Margaret, one of the citizen journalists in the NeighborMedia program, drew up a really great layout focusing on the different zip codes in Cambridge.

NeighborMedia in general, along with the Media Map, is an effort to get hyperlocal and to use the website as a way to gather news, info, experience from all parts of the city.

Margaret's layout is very interesting, and can be thought of as one potential way of organizing a section of the site, perhaps a "news and info" or more interactive, community-based section.

At the very least, the main concept is to be able to filter content by neighborhood or zip code, whether that's built into the layout or can be done on a per search basis. Good tagging of content would be required. Another great thing is the additional functionality suggested: forums, bulletin boards, polls, event calendar, and other useful links.

I think organizing content by zip code is a great idea. Also, I would love to see stories organized by issue or topic.

This is really intriguing. An interesting approach towards arranging the website layout through various zipcode "portals". It would be nice if there could be some overlap across each section/zipcode. Maybe this could be accomplished through a common tagging system?

Look forward to hearing more reactions to Margaret's great idea!

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