Globally Local  

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: 

Lynn Terry’s ClickNewz

Art Addict - Cleveland

Cherry Blossom Festival - Washington DC

International Comic Festival - Beja

And That’s A Wrap - Wausau

Route 66 Rendezvous - San Bernardino