My Town is Getting Hip!
June 23, 2010
Chestnut Hill
I love my town. I live in one of the most beautiful small towns called Chestnut Hill, PA, which was voted one of the top 12 Distinctive Destinations in the US.
How cool is that?
But even better than the beauty, the shopping, the cobblestone streets and the friendliness of my town is the fact that we are getting hip!
That means is that we’re getting up to speed regarding technology and social media. Yes us ole’ folks are challenging ourselves to get out of the dark ages and into the future.
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I am a former technophobe who overcame my fears by taking a great blogging course called, Become A Blogging Maniac.
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It so changed my life and my business that I started to share these skills wherever I went and last year I proposed to some folks in my town that we might join together and learn these skills.
To be honest, I met with a fair amount of resistance. I got a few blank stares, a few definite no’s and a handful of adventurers that were willing to try out a class with me.
We did ok, but it wasn’t quite the vision I had. I wanted the whole town to thrive.
So this year I tried again and the timing was right, so I’ve been working with a group of wonderful folks in our business association and teaching them how to blog.
They’re doing great!
They’re full of funny stories, great ideas and never-before-told tales of our town. You’re gonna love reading them.
So we’ve decided to expand and are creating a plan by which anyone in town can have a website, blog and be able to use social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Now this sounds like absolutely nothing to the 20-somethings who were born with this media in their back pocket, but to us of another generation, the techno-gap can be terrifying and overwhelming.
So since we have been succeeding in the business association we are now expanding to hold our first blogging class of adventurous business owners.
These brave souls will be going first to stand as role models for our town to shout and proclaim, “We can do it!!”
I’m very excited about this as it’s changed my business life entirely and I am absolutely certain that my charming town can have enormous success with this as well.
We will be updating our progress on our blog and Facebook page, so if you want to check us out and/or cheer us on, we would love to hear from you.
Be encouraged. Even those of us who are slow to get up to speed on this stuff, can catch up and we can have fun doing it. We plan to laugh, tell stories and have fun while we’re learning to promote our fabulous town in a brand new way.
Stay tuned for more stories of Chestnut Hill’s success in social media!
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