AucTown unifies citizens in Miami–Dade County by enabling them to expeditiously obtain, retain, collaborate and organize their online media and content, especially news impacting their community. AucTown facilitates the flow of information and empowers interactive communication with language translation tools, enabling citizens in Miami–Dade’s diverse culture to use AucTown, regardless of the citizen’s preferred language. Citizen communication is empowered with dialogue and multi-lingual translation features, which eliminates language barriers, thereby providing a vehicle for the dissemination of information within communities, while promoting interactions with real time annotations and online chat with other members. With 91 zip codes in Miami–Dade, citizens of specifically defined geographic communities are contemporaneously provided relevant information on their personalized News Walls.

AucTown utilities enable citizens, in real time, REGARDLESS OF THE MEMBER’S NATIVE LANGUAGE to: ANNOTATE content, including text and video; SHARE the content with another member of their community; COLLABORATE, enabling other members to add their personal annotations to the content; SAVE the content in personally created folders; COMMUNICATE with the article’s author or community members, through instant chat tools. AucTown’s interactive communication conduit facilitates a diverse distribution model for media organizations and local citizen journalists. Citizens who share a “commonality,” such as members of associations, students, parents, community leaders, or work groups, personalize their News Wall interactions, and dialogue with individuals who share common interests. “Commonality” groups become trusted sources, filtering, sharing, creating and distributing information.