Facbook Note

Listeners of the World,

Today instead of writing a new post I wanted to share a note that I wrote on our Facebook page explaining the benefits of becoming a local editor. After writing the note I felt so compelled by it that I felt that I needed to share it on our blog. Please enjoy.......

Facebook Note!

There are many different opportunities in the world for people to embrace and celebrate with many different motives. It could be a new job opportunity to make some extra cash or new sport to try out to have fun with your friends. No matter what it is there are many aspects of the opportunity that appeal to each individual that tries it out. Now the hard part is to find these opportunities and once found to make sure they are not too good to be true. Well I have an opportunity that many people would like, but doesn't really know too much information about.........OurTown.com.

OurTown.com is a hyper-local news site that brings you the local news that nobody else has......or is it more than that? Or is it a community of different small towns that bring you more than the news, but an identity to your town that only the people living there can relate to. I would like to think so, and that's why we recruit people from those towns to be in charge of the sites! We put the control into the peoples hands and let them decide what they want to focus on and what is truly important to them and their fellow neighbors. We let these local editors report on things that are apparently too small for regular news outlets, but not too small for the people living in these communities. This is why we have way more than just some hyper-local news site on our hands!

We also like to think that there are other advantages of becoming a local editor other than for the love of your town and the news going on in it. There is also a way to make extra money while doing what you love for the people that you care about (your neighbors). We allow every local editor to sell local advertising on their site and keep all of the profits! This way you can do something important and be compensated at the same time! It is a win-win-win all the way around! Your community receives the information that is important to them. The local businesses get a chance to advertise to the real customer base that is within their town. And you get to make some money while improving your community!

Overall I think this opportunity is a lot greater than anyone can image, but nobody knows about it. But trust me on one thing.......soon more and more people will know about it and soon it will be too let for you to benefit off of it!

Blogging and OurTown !

Listeners of the World,

Who out there has seen something, heard something, or had an important issue in their life that they wanted other people to know about? Well if you are a human being that would be all of us! We always have different events going on in our lives and a lot of people like to share their life with others - Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin are just some of the social media sites that we use to do this. These sites are great for sharing parts of our lives, but not great for sharing stories, articles or big chunks of information. That is where most people would start blogging! Blogging is great for getting your opinion, ideas, or just a nice story out to the world. The only problem with blogging is getting your blog to be popular enough for people to read it so that what you write actually matters! Well I have an alternative to blogging and that is OurTown. OurTown.com gives you a site where you have full control over what goes on it. You can put up pictures, events, videos, stories, news, and even different Twitter and Facebook widgets! Now you have a blogging platform where people will be able to see your articles, stories, pictures, videos, and etc. And once you have the platform to unleash your ideas and stories, the sky is the limit!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris

2010 and OurTown!

Listeners of the World,

It is now 2010 and I hope that everyone had a great New Year! We here at the home office are very excited and busy with this new year for we have much work to do! We will be releasing a new version of our site in the early spring. We will also be recruiting more local editors to help fill out our map to bring the most news possible to our viewers! Also we will be adding more contests and fun games to OurTown to not only make it a great news site, but to make it fun and exciting as well. We will also be expanding the functionality of the site to make it easier to use Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. So as you can see we have a lot to do and little time to do it in, but we are up to the challenge! I will be letting everyone in on our progress over the next few months with more blog posts to come.

Your OurTown SuperHero,

Chris