WRAL.com Encourages Inhabitant Stating In Raleigh

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Jan 14, 2011 8:00 AM, By Michael Grotticelli

WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting's CBS associate portion the Raleigh-Durham (as good as Chapel Hill-Fayetteville), NC, has launched a new partnership with program businessman SeeClickFix and the town of Raleigh that allows local adults to inform county problems using the cameras on their mobile phones. The pierce is an bid by WRAL to rivet viewers in new and imaginative ways, something the pioneering broadcasters have qualified with a few not similar rising technologies - inclusive one of the initial to announce DTV, HDTV and ATSC Mobile DTV - over the march of its history.

Rather than stating local news, the adults in this box concentration their chic phone cameras on slight county problems similar to potholes, damaged road signs, trash gathering snafus and graffiti. SeeClickFix allows the user to simply click "send," and the print goes to both WRAL and to town officials.

SeeClickFix is a technology stage combined to give a send connection between residents and their town governments. It allows any person to use the Web or a mobile app to inform an situation in their area and is already used by inhabitant reporters in hundreds of cities around the world.

Launched in New Haven, CT, in 2008, SeeClickFix supports online and mobile platforms that capacitate citizens, residents groups, media and local governments to residence problems in their neighborhoods. It right away claims to have millions of viewers and has logged tens of thousands of reports.

WRAL is underwriting what it calls "professional-level" accounts for each Raleigh town legislature member, the mayor and the town manager. Although SeeClickFix is giveaway for any person to use, agencies or administrators can buy veteran turn accounts for faster and improved situation management.

The SeeClickFix program is moreover integrated in to the WRAL website, that allows simpler tracking by Raleigh residents who have a available way to inform and follow problems. The assorted problems are plotted on an interactive chart as they are received and reserved colored markers. As the problems are fixed, the markers change colors so residents can follow progress.

The service is accessible online, and around iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile platforms. Its widgets may be found on media partner websites inclusive the Washington Post, Gannett, SFGate, Philly.com and Boston.com.

At WRAL.com, Raleigh residents revisit the website and sort in the word "fix" to find the link.