Pictures. Personality. Timeliness. Tips and tools for building online communities can sometimes seem rather general but blogger and journalist Ed Walker decided to put them all into practice for his hyperlocal site Blog Preston.

See how it worked for him and the detailed highlights of what made his month long campaign a success in this blog post.

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