New on Citiesense: Local Guides
I'm happy to share that last week Citiesense officially launched our newest feature:
Quick Response Local Guides
Today's local neighborhood guides are broken. They either lack the level of local insight to connect you to all the great things happening around you, or they are simply not technical enough to deliver the best experience to get you from A to B. The last time you looked for information about what was happening around you downtown, you probably did one of three things:
- You looked up information via top-down sources like Google, Yelp, which have limited stake in the local community and therefore can't possibly show you everything,
- maybe you found flyers, printed maps that a local downtown organization provides, or looked things up on one of their websites with limited mapping technology, if any, or
- you asked a local who was helpful and attempted to draw a map or tell you where to go.
It's not that these approaches are wrong, and they all work to a certain extent. But we think it's time to help downtowns take a better approach. We developed a way to combine the best of all three of these approaches and improve how small business communities work together to engage visitors, residents and anyone else looking for things to do around them downtown. The first version of our new Local Guides is now live and being tested in Long Island City with the Long Island City Partnership. It's called LIC Local (www.liclocal.nyc) and while it may not look like it on the surface, everything about LIC Local is powered by Citiesense.
More about LIC Local: https://longislandcityqueens.com/do-business/planning-and-development/lic-local/
About the platform: https://www.citiesense.com/product/platform