LocalToolbox is the leading provider of cost-effective, uniquely-branded web portals, that allow you to offer distinctive local content to potential customers and existing ones in your communities.
At the core of our product is an easy-to-use, web-based publishing tool which includes a proven formula. These tools allow you to quickly recruit local content partners to publish information on the portal LocalToolbox helps you create and manage. In additon to the compelling content created by your new partners, you can also choose from more than
350 national content sources providing news, weather,
TV listings, market updates
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Where did we come from?
The concept of LocalToolbox was first born out of the online newspaper business in 1994 and was translated to cable operators as part of the ISP Channel in 1998. ISP Channel, which provided back-end provisioning to get cable operators into the connectivity business, went under by the end of 2000. At that time, LocalToolbox’s present CEO struck a deal to spin out the LocalToolbox software platform and continue offering the portal service to telecommunications companies across the U.S. Numerous MSOs were happy to begin paying for a reliable service that they were getting for free from ISP Channel a year before. Customer support was the birth of LocalToolbox.
Who are we now?
LocalToolbox now operates more than 450 community portals in |
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nearly every state. We host portals for 30-plus telecommunications companies in the U.S. and Bermuda, and are happy to let our prospective clients talk to our existing clients.
Where are we going?
In early 2007, LocalToolbox officially launched its next generation of portal software, adding such cutting-edge technology as AJAX to facilitate “drag and drop” personalization and its all-new RSS reader technology. While historically, much of LocalToolbox’s focus has been on getting local content partners (schools, chambers of commerce, non-profit groups, etc.) to publish through its web-based publishing tools, we have begun to...
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