According to ignoregon.com Corvallis is home to 85 blogs (http://www.ignoregon.com/city/corvallis). These local blogs and bloggers freely share resources and information about Corvallis for our students, residents, businesses and visitors.
How can we help them?
The plot for Cameron Diaz’s new film “The Box” goes like this. Norma (played by Diaz) and Arthur Lewis,...
“…I believe a change in leadership at the Chamber Coalition is needed before our community can proceed toward a...
The economic base of Corvallis is crumbling because of the slow loss of manufacturing jobs and the hemorrhage of...
The plot for Cameron Diaz’s new film “The Box” goes like this. Norma (played by Diaz) and Arthur Lewis,...
“…I believe a change in leadership at the Chamber Coalition is needed before our community can proceed toward a...
The economic base of Corvallis is crumbling because of the slow loss of manufacturing jobs and the hemorrhage of...
Has John Sechrest’s work touched your business or you professionally in any way? Does he create value for the...
Google is looking to partner with a community to install and operate an experimental ultra high speed internet service....
Most would agree that Corvallis remains an incredible place to live. Most would also agree that it took a...
Mayor Charlie Tomlinson hosted a meeting this evening to discuss job creation in Corvallis. Roughly thirty or so were in...
Community values will apparently have no place at the Bald Hill Farm land use hearing next Monday. All that...
WeLoveCorvallis started as casual discussions about the Corvallis community between Matt Andresen, Chris Nordyke, Loyan Roylance and others. As our conversations progressed we found ourselves frustrated by the lack of adequately candid conversations which we could join. Additionally we found ourselves wishing others could join our conversations. This project is not about ourselves, any individuals or any particular group. This project is about all of us who have a stake in Corvallis. To be honest, we are still feeling our way around this concept and expect it to change over time. But we are mutually committed to some fundamental ideas which will serve as our guide for this thing we are calling WeLoveCorvallis. It is our earnest hope that you will share in this effort with us. We are look forward to having valuable conversations with you.
Local Blogger thoughts:
Bill Zipp – http://www.summitsmallbusiness.com/
the Crallspace – http://dancrall.blogspot.com/
onFocus – http://www.onfocus.com/
I’ll have to look for good articles when I get time…
Nice list Jason. I’d like for us to try our best to promote bloggers from outside of the active #CorvSMB group. I think it would be good for us to do some outreach.
How many blog posts should we highlight each week? I’d like to try 2 a week. What do you guys think?
I keep thinking about this one — what are you guys planning? Comments are wonderful to receive, but after an initial ‘blitz’ (if you will), the onus really is on the blogger to keep the readers coming back.
I’ve been thinking about what I can do & I’ve started to rebuild a list of links — something I abandoned a long time ago. I’d also certainly be willing to use my blog platform to highlight other blogs with posts. Any other ideas on what we can do?
Thanks for the input Kate. The assumption is that comments are a simple way to reward local bloggers for their contributions that anyone with web access can do.
I think the objectives are simple but valuable. Show folks how they can discover local bloggers, expose those bloggers to some new audiences and show how to show some love to blog posts they value.
Sorry, I’m still not clear… so it’s a comment blitz, then? Or more? Or do you not know yet?
I’ll just keep checking back to see what the action’s going to be. I don’t imagine I’ll do much different than I already do, except I’ll focus on bloggers and not so much buying local. Maybe I’ll use my other blog for this.
Nothing is in stone yet Kate. Any ideas for ways we can help local bloggers beyond comments? Multiple ways of giving our local bloggers some love would be great.
So, I’m a local blogger! My ‘toons appear in The Alchemist, a fine local rather extremely alternative paper.
…I’ve read (and read about) the welovecorvallis site & people, and don’t quite get it (yet?). Perhaps the site could lead to the one grand all-things-Corvallis site? Whatever – best luck, see you at the farmer’s mkt!