Blogging in small towns

The next Smallwander.com web/phone seminar will be next Monday, March 31, at 10 am. It’s going to be all about blogging, and other social networking tools. Our featured guest will be Anne-Marie Dany, publisher of the blog MyWeaverville.com. Anne-Marie also happens to be our Smallwander representative from Weaverville, NC.

Blogs, or web logs, are online electronic journals. Businesses are using blogs to build a personal relationship with their clients. Towns as a whole can do the same to attract tourists. As you might know, smallwander.com has two blogs, one to help towns communicate with one another (http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/), and one to communicate with travelers (http://smallwanderer.wordpress.com/). Right now, smallwander.com members are welcome to post on both blogs.

If you had ever thought blogging but wanted to learn more about it, now is your chance.

EVENT: Blogging for small towns
DATE & TIME: Monday, March 31st at 10:00am Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2356167

Smallwander towns able to post on Small Towns Blog

We are inviting all of our featured towns on smallwander.com the ability to post on this blog. They’ll be able to post and edit their own messages directly, without any review on our part. We currently use a WordPress blog hosted on WordPress.com. Eventually, we’ll migrate the blog over to our upgraded site.

To our member towns–if you are new to blogging, experiment with it! It’s not much harder than sending out an email, except that it’s posted out there for the internet world to see. You’ll be able to add pictures, video, and audio, too. This might be your first step in setting up your own blog for your town. In fact, our next phone/web seminar, on March 31, 10 am, will be all about blogging. More details to follow.

I’m learning about this at the same time as you, so, we’re always open to suggestions. Please contact us at any time if you have any problems.

John (john@smallwander.com)