Neighborhood Blogging

St. Pete Times is jumping full force into blogging and citizen journalism with It's Your Times. AngelSil of Party Like It's 1925 went into detail about this earlier this month.

Well, they have expanded It's Your Times to create neighborhood association blogs on their website.

"This is a space for Neighborhood News and information from neighborhood associations. If you are an official representative of a neighborhood association or organization, contact us and we will create a blog for your organization to post its activities, news and information. We know that not everything you want to talk about can fit in the newspaper, so this is you chance to share everything you need to. Eventually, this will be the page that will link to each of those neighborhood blogs."

The first Association to take advantage of this is North Kenwood Neighborhood Association in St. Pete. Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association (SESHCA) will be joining as I have been asked by Beverly Morrow to be the representative for SESHCA.

This a good opportunity for neighborhoods to find an easy way to get into blogging and spread their messages. Especially neighborhoods that don't have websites. Plus these messages will be in view of St. Pete Times, and so perhaps something will get picked up and put in the regular paper. So dear blogger readers, go yell at your neighborhood association leaders and get them to join.