Oh, the places we'll go

The world unfolds one story at a time

CityTools is a citizen journalism and social news platform that spans the globe -- but has a local viewpoint in every place you find it.

We offer the ability to create stories, share stories, create dynamic lists that can be combined to form a consensus viewpoint and we do it all within the context of a geographic engine that allows you to find/create content down to the neighborhood level.

Plus we offer exciting ways for teams of people -- civic organization, families, school groups, whomever -- to combine their skills to publish online with plenty of control and power. And the results of that work don't just appear on CityTools -- you can place them on your own web page and all teams have their own RSS channel.

CityTools is young, but we think pretty exciting. On the links below you'll find details on the features organized by area. In addition, we provide a separate paid product for publishers that allows them to share information in exciting ways

In the words of Dr. Seuss, "With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet... oh the places you'll go."

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Finding stories
Fresh ways of finding stories -- global or local it's easy as pie

Writing stories
Writing original stories, shared stories and more on CityTools

A new way of combining ideas
Dynamic lists -- building consensus and telling the story in a whole new way.

The power of all of us
Teams, teams, teams, offline groups with a new set of online dancing shoes.

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Features for individuals



Tips!
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Where can I find information on the publisher's network?

The features overview can be found here.

If you're interested in the Howtos and quick guides -- including the 15-minute fast track guide -- to using the networks, you can find that here

Where can I find out about features of the free CityTools public tools?

The overview page can be found here

The howtos for teams, writing stories and lists may be found on the menu rail under "Docs and Howtos."

I've got to have this! Where do I sign up?

We were hoping you'd ask that!

You can sign up for an individual account here which is free for everyone.

If you want to sign up for our paid publisher services you may do so here, but you need to sign up for an individual account first.