I just met a small town mayor here in South East Asia. He’s the mayor of a small agricultural city, rural as rural can be. I think I stood out of the crowd being naturally city-folk(counattempt folks CAN tell). And it being a really small city, he heard from a friend that I was a computer person. He set up a meeting with me to pick my mind regarding “blogging”. I was a little confused with what he wanted to do (I thought he wanted to know what blogging meant) UNTIL he told me that he wanted municipal events, activities and other municipal news blogged. His primary audience? Former town residents who are now spread all over the globe. This mayor knew what blogging is and he had a specific project for it.
The mayor wanted former town residents to know what’s going on with their old town. He wanted to let them
I smiled… literally smiled wide! This is the kind of mind that aims at progress. Blogging about their small city is a awesome progressive step. He’s going to pass this project on to the youth council, who seem to be gungho about the entire thing.
I’ll probably start by dropping a few URLs about blogging and see where their interest brings them. I for one can probably demo what and how setting up a blog site is. Do you know any URLs that can help them?
Funny how blogging is taking its aim at even the rural communities of South East Asia. It’s the grassroots communities that, I think, can benefit from blogging. Tons of things may happen if they keep telling people about their small town. Opportunities, change, development… progress.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this will press on!
Original post by jim
