With the recent launch of ActiveRain Community Pages, we've had quite a few people ask us how they can create community pages within their cities or towns.
(I've also had a ton ask us how they can get their area cleaned up and get duplicates, misspellings and just plain wrong information removed......we are working on a way for you to be able to report these things through the site and hope to have that out in the future)
If there are communities within your town/city that you would like to add (maybe not even to sponsor, maybe just to be able to assign your content to get it on a community page) you can add the community by first going in as if you were going to create a new blog post.
You don't have to actually create a new blog post, but you need to get to the page where you would create one. From that page, go down as if you were going to assign the post to 'Localism' and check on the box. Then drill down to your city by selecting the State, and County and then the city. This will then display an ability to place the post into a specific community (as seen below)
You will then notice the 'Add Neighborhood' link . Clicking on that link will give you a map popup. Once the map pops up, you can manipulate the map to drill down (that term again, I can't think of a better one) on the center point of the community you would like to add. Hover your mouse over the map and right click on time. This will place a map marker on the map at the center point of the community. Then in the top field, fill in the name of the community you would like to add. (PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK THE SPELLING). Then click the 'add community' button and your new community will be placed on the list for your city.
and voila, your new community page has been created!
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