The city's CEO will contribute one post a week to a new blog in town called Newburyport Today. The blog will be run by Kim Gobbi, who emailed a couple of bloggers earlier this week hoping to spread the word. Here's how she describes it.
We are working with the Mayor and the Chamber to publicize Newburyport's resources. We are centralizing the Calendar (city and all local non-profits listed for free), promoting city and chamber events for free, and both the Mayor and Ann will be guest bloggers for us once a week. We will have the Mayor post on Monday's (called Mondays with the Mayor) and Ann will post on Thursdays (called Chamber chat). There is also a substantial discount offered for banner ads if you are a chamber member.
The blog actually does a nice job of linking to calendars, including the one at the City of Newburyport page. I had plans to do that here and probably will at some point. It also lists to a city events calendar.
In her email, Kim Gobbi says she wanted to "emphasize that the content on this will not be political, opinion, or even news. It is simply meant to chronicle and record events that happen around the city. Our goal is to give residents a central place to go for information. Also we would love for locals to spend money locally so would like to promote local business."
Noble goals. I look forward to hearing what the mayor has to say. If it's going to be interesting it'll have to incorporate some degree of politics, but we'll see what he delivers. At this point, the blog has a comments function, so folks may have a direct line to the mayor if he opts to read his comments.
I'm adding it to the blog roll.
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The link to Newburyport Today is bad.
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