A recent blog item on the Washington Post site touches on the phenomenon of local neighborhood blogging.
Also mentioned is outside.in which lets users find local blog posts based on geography — using a nice mapping feature. This features should also be interesting for blog authors that are adding themselves to Grokodile. Perhaps at some point in the future, when we’ve grown more, we’ll add more sophisticated geographical capabilities?
Count on it.
What is it with all these people that try to show hundreds of posts on a single page? The search engines will still direct people to your blog even if something you wrote is no longer featured on the home page!
Please, cut your visitors some slack. Limit the number of items you display on the page. This will make sure your page doesn’t freeze the users browser for an extended period of time. Seriously, nothing stops me from bookmarking a page that I might otherwise have liked, as having it clog things up or crash my browser.
The same goes with blasting up hundreds of ad banners and other externally served items. These all take time to download as well. Get rid of it. Make your site popular by writing thoughtful content, then you won’t have to bury it with advertising in order to commercialize it, assuming you decide to go that way at all.
Where are you hiding? Why are you hiding? People are looking for you…
Google search: madisonville kentucky blogs
At the time of writing we don’t have any blogs listed for Madisonville, but we do have a couple in Louisville.
If you blog about or from Racine Wisconsin, you should have been around for this:
Google Search: racine wisconsin blog
We do have one blog listed for Racine Wisconsin, but I’m pretty sure our visitors would be happy to see yours there as well.
We review a lot of blogs. Really, we do.
Something that beginners should keep in mind is simple readability. It doesn’t cost you anything to put a blank line between paragraphs, but it will break up a large chunk of text and help your fickle reader stay interested in reading your blog. In short, don’t make reading your blog any more work than it has to be.
Our log files say this happened a little earlier today today and it’s a real shame too…
Google Search: slater missouri blogs
Why is it a shame? Because as of right now we don’t have any Slater Missouri blogs. Our poor visitor had to leave empty handed. Sniff, sniff.
Today’s post is a meme. It’s very simple. Please write a post about a previous community event in your city or town. It could have been a winter festval, a fall fair, a summer celebration, or whatever your town routinely does.
I know, you live there, so it isn’t news to you, but the rest of us have never heard of your festival. We don’t know when it happens. We don’t know what it is about. We don’t know how much the residents of your community pull together to participate and have fun together. Tell us. Tell everyone. By all means, if there is an appropriate local tourism site, link to it.
Imagine that you are talking to a remote friend, hoping to entice him or her to come visit the next time there is a local event.
1. Write a blog post based on this meme’s theme. See above.
2. In your post please link to the originating post, at Globally Local, and mention that you are participating in the Local Community Events meme. This will help those unfamiliar with memes figure out how to participate without cluttering up your blog post.
3. Be sure to add a comment (or trackback) at Globally Local pointing to your new post. We should be able to grow a huge list of community events by doing this. This would be a great way to find local blogs and get advice prior to visiting a community.
4. Also, please link back to the person that tagged you for this meme, if anyone did, in order to return the favor of their link. It’s not necessary to be tagged in order to participate… meme’s are just an easy way to generate ideas for a post and exchange some links.
5. If you are comfortable doing so, tag some other bloggers to get them to write about their own community events. It’s certainly okay to participate even if you are not comfortable tagging anyone.
6. Walk up and down the tagged chain of participants and see what is worth penciling into your future travel plans. Have fun.
Don’t let the list fool you, it’s incredibly simple! Everyone gets to read about interesting community events they may want to see, and authors that participate get exposure on the Globally Local blog as well as on the blog that tagged them.
Note
Please consider any privacy issues that may apply before participating in this meme. If you give your real name, display family pictures, or publish other personal information in your blog then you should consider the privacy implications of revealing your home town as well.
Who I’m Tagging
I’m going to tag some folks that I think might be interested in participating in this meme or that have recently made theme appropriate posts:
Cherry Blossom Festival - Washington DC
