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
Item level detail pages are here. Add tags to your entry to help
support future search capabilities. Define custom deep links to your
most important or significant pages. Your link to Grokodile activates
this feature; be sure to include the ’s’ parameter.
Not sure what I am talking about? Don’t worry. You don’t have to worry about these detail pages if you don’t want to. Some folks that us our directory will be excited by these changes… but they are entirely optional.
Interested in following along in the development of Grokodile? Now
you can read about our news and events on this page. Woohoo!
Actually, at the time this was written, news was being published on the directory itself. As you can see, we have since moved our news to this blog. What a great idea!
Paging has been added to communities that have more than 20 entries.
This limits the number of outbound links per page and provides a clear
differentiation in terms of result rank.
However, keep in mind, one of the benefits of a regional directory is that you aren’t competing with the entire world when it comes to visibility in your own community.
Both top and recent blog lists are now available as XML feeds. Keep up
with new or popular blogs in your favorite news reader.
Each community page within our directory lists both the most popular blogs and the most recent blogs within that state, province, oblast, district or other type of regional division.
Recently added entries are now listed for the entire state within each
community. Now you can more easily find new blog listings in nearby
regions.
This means that when viewing your own community, you will be able to see recently added blogs in nearby communities as well as your own. We made this change because of feedback concerning how time consuming it was to go search through communities for new additions.
Public quality reporting is now available. Any non-featured entry
now displays a ‘report’ option to help ensure that we provide only the
highest quality items.
We do review entries to ensure that they are of appropiate quality at the time of submission, but over time things can change. Now, if something inappropriate is in your community, you can have us correct that problem.
