Press Passes!

Listeners of the World,

Today I wanted to highlight a feature of OurTown.com that often gets over looked.......Press Passes! I seen many articles about online bloggers and journalist not being able to obtain press passes for different events, which in turn causes them to miss out on stories to share with their audience. Here at OurTown we looked into this problem early on because we thought that this was very important for our local editors to have! That's why we had developed our press passes along time ago, modeled after current newspaper passes. We have had much success, along with much resistance from event staff, with our local editors being able to gain access to certain events with these passes. We know that the industry has a long way to go before major events will accept press passes from online bloggers and journalist of hyper local sites, but we feel that we have a great first step. So please remember that when becoming a local editor our staff has truly thought of all the different tools you will need including Press Passes!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris