AmericanTowns.com Expands Its Unique Town-Based Offering to Include Community Bloggers."A Blog for Every Town in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. " FAIRFIELD Fairfield. 1 City (1990 pop. 12,200), Jefferson co., N central Ala., an industrial suburb of Birmingham; inc. 1919. Founded (1910) by the United States Steel Corp., its steel industry has greatly declined, negatively affecting the city's economy. , Conn. -- AmericanTowns.com today invited town residents across the country to recommend their favorite "community blogs," or to start their own blog about the goings-on go·ings-on pl.n. Informal Actions or behavior, especially when regarded with disapproval: "cool observers of nutty goings-on" Variety. in their town. AmericanTowns staff will review the suggestions, and add the best to its network of "community webspaces," which AmericanTowns operates for each town in America. Criteria for a blog's inclusion in AmericanTowns.com will be: (i) relevance to the local community, (ii) up-to-date postings, and (iii) pro-community orientation. Suggestions can be submitted by going to AmericanTowns.com, inserting a zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. or town name, and, from the resulting town homepage, clicking on any "suggestion" button. "We think a good community blog adds richly to a community's awareness of issues and initiatives and promotes discussion on-line and around town," explained Jim Maglione, AmericanTowns co-president, Community. "So we want to make it more likely that community bloggers will be discovered by local residents, just as we help local groups get the word out to the community. And we want to encourage more community blogging Writing Weblogs. See blog. , so that eventually there is at least one community blog in every town in America." AmericanTowns already provides each town in the U.S. with its own "community webspace," each rich with "everything local" -- local events, local groups, news and announcements, maps, videos, on-line resources and local services - while enabling community residents to add to or edit this content. The addition of community-focused blogs is made possible by AmericanTowns' robust technology framework, which brings together highly specific local information (e.g. community blogs, train schedules, or local farmers markets) drawn from its extraordinary database of national scope and scale. AmericanTowns unveiled this new technology platform in February February: see month. , 2008, and then indicated its plans to develop tools to bring community blogs into AmericanTowns.com in the near future. "We're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are using the power of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to connect real local communities," said Ed Panian, co-president of Technology, AmericanTowns. "That's good for local residents, including community bloggers; it's good for locally-focused businesses that support us with advertising; and it's good for the community." About AmericanTowns.com AmericanTowns is a national network of community-based websites where residents can find and share local information. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a "community webspace" that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, maps, videos, local resources and special tools for organizations. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses and strengthening the bonds of our nation's communities, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens. Founded in 2000, AmericanTowns is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. Fairfield is a town of many neighborhoods, two of which -- Southport and Greenfield Hill -- are notably affluent. . Visit www.AmericanTowns.com. |
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