Thursday, November 1, 2012

Attention Active Community Members

Do you organize events or attend local events that you believe deserve more public recognition?  Are you interested in increasing the attendance or awareness of your organization's endeavors?

Then look no further.  This site was built on Blogger, and if you have a Google account, then you also have a Blogger account (same login/sign-in required as Gmail to enter).

Training is available upon request for those in the local area.  The site, this week, received a moderate amount of traffic (600 views).  If that were to continue, that would be 2400 per month.  Since there's no Search Engine Optimization for the site, and no advertisements for it anywhere, we can guarantee that this is due solely to local people telling local people about this great new website.

The three letters are easy to remember.  N - H - V.  If you're wondering where the "V" came from, it's actually the three-letter abbreviation for our location on railway maps.  Anyone who has ever taken the MTA from GCT should know what NHV stands for.  Not to mention #Nhv is the predominant twitter tag for New Haven being used by many local people already.

This is our domain.  It's a public website.  There are many ways to access it, both as a reader and a writer.  Fill out one of our many forms to start getting into it yourself.  Post events, videos, maps.  Learn how to use free online products such as Google Blogger, Calendar, Maps, Video (YouTube) [*and now Vimeo], Twitter, and Soundcloud to put together your own website as well.

When you visit our site on your smartphone:

  • It's only 3 letters long.  That's not too tough on your touchscreen phone.  It even asks you to remember that it can be bookmarked to your phone's homescreen, to appear as an App.  
  • Once you access it, use your thumb to press the easy-to-find "Mobile" button.  The mobile site looks more like this: 

  Home Version
Also, Videos are announced here on this website.  Enjoy and I hope that you find this helpful in all. 

"Edit Scheduled"
Google Blogger is so smart, that if you are an administrator for a site such as nhvorg.blogspot, then you can technically view and edit posts which are "scheduled" or timed to be released at a future time.

"Traffic is Progress"
Department of Transportation Officials regard traffic as progress.  If they build roads, it's only worth it if people use them.  

Here is a look at the standard dimensions for graphics, if you wish to submit any.