Here are the 5 simple steps to launch Neighborhood News Pages in under 30 minutes:

1. Go to publishers.outside.in. Sign up for a Beta Invite by entering your email address, name, and site name.
2. Receive your Beta Invite Email (if it doesn’t arrive within 30 minutes, check your spam folder).
3. Return to publishers.outside.in. Click on Register Now. Enter your email address, create a password, enter the Beta Invite Code from the email, fill out the Captcha, and click Register.
4. Enter the name of your site and choose your market, enter your site’s feed(s) or skip this step and click Continue to Dashboard. Click Configure Layouts and configure your layout, accepting all defaults.
5. Paste the code onto your site.

It’s that simple to get the quick and dirty version of Neighborhood News Pages live on your site.  But, this is just the beginning of your relationship with Outside.in for Publishers.

In building the OIP platform, we strove for simplicity with the opportunity for complexity. The simplicity lies in the user’s ability to generate code for Neighborhood News Pages and have them live in under 30 minutes. The complexity comes with a variety of levers and dials that publishers can tinker with in order to curate the content and look of their pages.

Under Tag Stories, we show you all of the stories you should expect to see on your Neighborhood News Pages, all the stories from Your Feeds, and all of the stories in your market that didn’t get GeoTagged.  From here, you can add your own GeoTags to those we’ve already created, suppress stories you don’t want, and remove sources altogether so that their stories never show up.

You can also blacklist feeds in the Manage Feeds section, where you can see all the feeds we aggregate in your market, organized by Active Feeds, Inactive Feeds and Your Feeds.  Deactivate and reactivate feeds whenever you want.  Know about any great sources that aren’t listed?  Add them here with the Add a New Feed button.

In My Layouts, you can build more Neighborhood News Pages and Map Widgets, customize their look and feel, and save their stylesheets for later use.  And, you can always refer to The OIP Blog for tips and updates on improvements.

With Outside.in for Publishers, your journey towards being the premiere destination for hyperlocal news in your market begins quickly and easily, and it opens the door to a new frontier.

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