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, and one to communicate with travelers. Right now, smallwander.com members are welcome to post on both blogs.
5:12 pm on April 1st, 2008
I just found this blog and smallwander.com. I am really impressed!! I am wondering if there are plans to expand and feature towns outside of the Southeast. I live in a small town near Hood River, Oregon (which is also small), and it’s really nice to see online resources for small communities to utilize. Thanks for the ideas and inspirations!
8:18 pm on April 1st, 2008
Val,
Thanks for your comments! Hood River looks like a great town. We certainly are looking into towns outside of our current 5-state area. We’ll take a closer look and make sure it matches our criteria before we approach your downtown merchants association and/or travel office.
I hope you could join our monthly calls as well!
John
2:18 pm on April 9th, 2008
That’s great news John! I really appreciate your efforts, it’s really nice to know that there are others out there who can relate to the challenges (as well as the many, many perks) of doing business in a small town. Thanks for a great resource, and I’ll look forward to talking with you soon.