outside.in Launches Blogger Map Widget

by Matt on Sep 18, 2008 in Content

outside.in widgetLet’s continue the “adding maps to your hyperlocal blog” theme on HyperlocalBlogger.com, which is almost all I’ve been writing about lately, it seems. :)

The latest entry into this arena is outside.in, which today launched StoryMaps, a widget that maps the locations you’ve been writing about recently on your local blog.

To use StoryMaps, you’ll obviously need an outside.in account and to connect your blog into their system. After that, you can choose from one of the three pre-set widget sizes, or make a custom-sized widget that fits your local blog perfectly.

In their announcement, outside.in points out one unique feature of this widget: blog posts will no longer only be accessible in chronological order when someone visits your blog:

It’s about letting users view content in a way that makes sense to them - organized around the places each post is written about. So they not only see a current post about that place, but links to all previous posts about that location as well. That translates to a better, more full reading experience for them — and to more pageviews for the blogger.

Here, again, is the full announcement on outside.in’s blog: New Navigation & Promotion Tool for Local Sites.

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September 18, 2008 | Filed Under Content 

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6 Responses to “outside.in Launches Blogger Map Widget”

  1. Local Search News Roundup on September 18th, 2008 9:46 pm

    [...] And lastly, local content aggregator outside.in also introduced a widget today called StoryMaps. I have a little more about that over on Hyperlocal Blogger. [...]

  2. outside.in » StoryMaps Reviewed on September 19th, 2008 7:12 am

    [...] http://www.hyperlocalblogger.com/outsidein-launches-widget/ [...]

  3. C.W. on September 25th, 2008 7:48 am

    Question: does that widget display geo tagging to the bots that crawl it or is it just a generated image?

  4. Matt on September 25th, 2008 9:52 am

    I don’t know the answer to that, C.W. I haven’t installed the outside.in widget on any of my blogs. You might try asking over on their blog and see if you can get a reply.

  5. outside.in Having a Good 2008 on November 10th, 2008 10:20 pm

    [...] used already by more than 1,200 local content creators.” (This refers to products like StoryMaps and the [...]

  6. Hyperlocal News Roundup on December 2nd, 2008 1:16 am

    [...] At the outside.in blog, Nina recently wrote a very detailed Getting Started with StoryMaps guide, offering all kinds of screenshots to show how to add StoryMaps to your blog. These are widgets that will display your blog archives on a map. Jog your memory by reading my old post: outside.in Launches Blogger Map Widget. [...]

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