InstiNews is built on the same foundation that makes Neighborlogs a powerful tool for neighborhood blogs and news sites. InstiNews builds on this foundation and offers more advanced tools to suit the needs of larger news organizations.

Our goal with InstiNews is to provide news organizations with an easy-to-use service that:

• Is fully community-enabled.  Anyone can join a site and post full news stories, participate in forums, upload photos, videos, etc. Editors have full control to promote any user content to the front page or to other highlighted areas of the site.
• Is geo-enabled, so that any content can be placed on and browsed to via a map, by neighborhood, etc.
• Comes with built-in revenue streams, with our self-service advertising system integrated throughout the site. Site owners can also easily place direct-sold advertising on the site.
• Is quick-to-market and fully brandable to fit specific news markets
• Eliminates the need to staff for and worry about the technical details of the site. it's a hosted service, and we make sure everything is working properly behind the scenes.

This power comes at a cost. We have engineered Neighborlogs to be a free service supported by shared advertising revenue. InstiNews requires a monthly fee for our customers to use. If you are interested in learning more, please contact justin@instivate.com

The Seattle PostGlobe news team members are early adopters and are part of a beta program for the service. Several other newspapers will launch on the platform in the next month. We thank our InstiNews partners and look forward to their success. It is extremely exciting to put forward-looking news tools into the hands of forward-looking journalists.