Get involved with Oakland Local!

Oakland is one of the most diverse cities in the country and we want the site to reflect that diversity.  We want to bring as many voices into the conversation as possible.   A city is only as strong as it's residents and a community news site is only as effective as the community around it. 

We need your help to build that community.  We're asking everyone to spread the word to as many people as possible.  This is your site. Let us hear your voice.

VOLUNTEER TO HELP OAKLAND LOCAL--FILL OUT THIS FORM

Become a member

 Register to comment and post in our forums.

Be a neighborhood blogger

 Share news and info about your area; contact kwan@oaklandlocal.com for more info.

Partner with Oakland Local

We will publish your stories, events, news and point back to your site If you have a local nonprofit, neighborhood or community organization, we’d like to post your community content on our site. Contact kwan@oaklandlocal.com for more info.

Make Oakland organizations more discoverable

 Add your group to Oakbase, our directory of local nonprofits, community groups, and neighborhood organizations.

List your blog

 Add your blog to the 192 active, local Oakland blogs already listed in our blogroll. Send an email to editor@oaklandlocal.com to be added.

List an event

 Register and contribute to our calendar. Register to add events.

Learn how to use social media and blogging to help your organization or small business

 Send an email to editor@oaklandlocal.com with your name, name of organization, address, phone number and what you’d like to learn; we will contact you about future free or low cost trainings around the area.

Send us news tips and story ideas

Forward them to us at editor@oaklandlocal.com

Intern or volunteer

We have lots of cool projects and not enough $$. We need support with editing community news, community outreach, database entry. training bloggers, and covering local events.  Contact editor@oaklandlocal.com

Write for us 

We pay writers for stories and we post guest blogs from local bloggers and point back to you. Check out our writers’ guidelines if you'd like to write or have a story idea.  If you'd like guest blog for us, or have us excerpt your blog and point back to you, contact kwan@oaklandlocal.com

Take pictures for us

 Oakland Local is committed to showcasing local talent; we welcome more info from photographers. We commission new work occasikonally, but we also reprint and credit existing images, with permission, or under CC atttribution. Contact susan@oaklandlocal.com

Share videos and images for The Daily Image

We celebrate Oakland photographers, videographers, artists, leaders, poets, speakers and comunity members with a daily upload of a video or a photo of someone or something Oaklandish. Contact kwan@oaklandlocal.com with links, images and suggestions.

Get your organization online with Oakland Local

 If you'd like help getting your local non-profit, community organization or neighborhood group online on Oakland Local with a blog or directory listing, get in touch. Email editor@oaklandlocal.com with info about your group and what you're interested in. We offer trainings and support, often in partnership with local groups, to educate and empower.