The Perks Of Being A Citizen Journalist

Establishing yourself as part of the local media has it’s personal advantages. As time has progressed for me and my hyperlocal blogging efforts, I’m able to do things now, that a year and a half ago would not have been possible.

I write about a lot of things here on BloggerLens but my main job [...]

Hyperlocal Blogging Can Be An Adrenaline Rush When You Are Kicking In The Doors Of The Bad Guys

Being a “Hyperlocal Blogger” carries with it certain benefits. Since I started my community website back in December of 2008, I have been fortunate enough to meet a lot of local leaders. I’ve gained quite a few friends and I’m on first name basis now with a lot of our local community leaders. I have [...]

Reward Yourself

Lately I have been rewarding myself and not earning my reward. Time to reverse myself and make it right. As a followup to my last video post, I feel that it’s important to earn my rewards even if they are small. Simple pleasures are cool.

Reward Yourself Today

The video above was shot with my trusty little [...]

How To Start A Hyperlocal Blog And Keep Your Full Time Job

I have a friend I’ve been exchanging some really detailed and long email messages with in the past couple of days. Some of what we’ve been writing about deals with hyperlocal blogging and it inspired me to write this article.

“How To Start A Hyperlocal Blog And Keep Your Full Time Job”

My disclaimer here is [...]

How To Determine Your Twitter Chances Of Hyperlocal Blogging Success In Your Town

There are so many Twitter statistics pages out there, that it’s hard to keep up with them. I should probably start a bookmark folder for all of them I stumble upon but I don’t. I guess that’s because I’m constantly switching back and forth between Safari browser & Firefox. I should get better organized. By [...]

Build A Great Hyperlocal Blog And Get Paid For It.

In my case, as someone building a community blog, in fact I’m actually trying to create my own job. We all have a story and I won’t boar you with mine right now but I’m at a point where I want to create my own job that will carry me for years to come. It’s [...]

Going Hyperlocal in Monroe, NC

I’m a hyperlocal blogger in Monroe, NC. My name is Steve Sherron. The road I travelled to get here is pretty long. I’ll talk about that as time goes on. Briefly, I took an early retirement after 24 years in a corporate job. I took an early retirement in 2006 to pursue real estate development [...]