your stories and photos online, and we publish them in print. How does it work? It's a simple two-step process: 1) Visit our home page and click on one of the boxes at the top to post your community news - events, stories, photos, blogs and videos about where you live and what you do.
2) Neighborsgo editors then either blog your news, tweet it and/or "reverse publish" your stories and photos
into one of our weekly print editions.
Our 17 print editions are published by The News every Friday and have a combined circulation of more than 200,000 copies.
News subscribers in those communities receive neighborsgo with their Friday editions. To subcribe, visit subscribe.dallasnews.com
or call 214-745-8383. You can also pick up a free copy at your local Starbucks or at more than 450 freestanding news racks.
For help in locating a distribution location near you - or if you ever encounter problems receiving your neighborsgo edition -
please don't hesitate to contact us at community@neighborsgo.com or 214-977-8649 and we'll try to assist you as quickly as possible.
Also, know that neighborsgo.com complements the daily blog posts and stories assembled by News staffers at dallasnews.com/communities
to provide complete coverage of your communities.
Our print editions cover 39 communities. More than 75 area communities
are represented on neighborsgo.com, and posting your news here is the best way
to get your stories published in neighborsgo. Why? Because all material
that appears in print originates on this Web site.
Contact neighborsgo editors: neighborsgo.com/connect
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
Reporters, editors and producers for the News and dozens
of other area media outlets scan neighborsgo.com frequently,
so you may see additional coverage of your news
in print, TV or online.
EXAMPLE ONE
A story about Plano West junior Jennifer Goebel
working in the U.S. Senate was posted
on neighborsgo.com in January. A few weeks later,
an article about her appeared in The Dallas Morning News.
Several months later, after her stint
in the Senate was over, Jennifer posted
her story in her own words and photos
... and she landed on the cover.
• Original online story
• Print story
• Memoir of a Senate page
• neighborsgo cover story
EXAMPLE TWOCarmen Koger of Flower Mound posted a blog entry
about how Scenic Drive wasn't too scenic because of
chronic littering. A WFAA-TV reporter saw her blog post
and came out that same day do a story.
The next day, the city contacted her
to say the problem would be resolved.
• Carmen's original post
• WFAA-TV report
• Wrap-up post
• Editor's note
In order to post your news, you need to create a profile first. Here's how. (You can always go back to the
"my corner" area to edit your information, so don't feel pressure to get every detail right. And share
as much or as little information as you want, but remember, it's 2009, so we're all about Web 2.0:
Accountability, not anonymity.) The following Word files - suitable for printing - explain how to:
• Create a profile
• Post a story
• Post photos
• Post a video
• Create a blog
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