Grapevine Communities use National Features on Local Websites Fastgrowing Network of Community based Internet Websites provides morecontent yet similar to MySpace, YouTube, Craigslist, Facebook. (PRWEB)October 20, 2008 -- The Grapevine Communities, a group of 200+community-based social media websites across the country, areconnecting people to their communities with local content by usingfeatures similar to MySpace, Craigslist, YouTube, Facebook and more. TopekaGrapevine.com Screen Shot Thousandsof members in small towns and large cities throughout the nation arediscovering the power of information and entertainment in communitywebsites such as PittsburghGrapevine.com, ClevelandGrapevine.com, ColumbusGrapevine.com, HarrisburgGrapevine.com, or LafayetteGrapevine.com. "Someoneelse suggested this site, and I'm glad they did," wrote TheRealMacoy, amember at LafayetteGrapevine.com in a public message to another member."It looks like I will be enjoying it a lot. ... So much to do on here." At each Grapevine Community Website, members can find hundreds of interactive things to do, such as:
- Easily post their own blog for the world to read and comment on
- Find forums on local topics of interest to discuss and debate in a tempered manner
- Print coupons from local grocery stores, or create and post their own coupons for their own business
- Finda needed business in the local Business Directory, or list theirbusiness in the Business Directory so people can easily findinformation about their product or service.
- Spend hours playing 700 games in the arcade
- Findlocal news from local media, along with national, world, business,sports, entertainment, science and technology and offbeat news
- Sell or buy items in the local classifieds, post help wanted ads and list Real Estate for sale.
- Find things to do in the local calendar of events or post their own events for the public to see
- List local Church and School information, or create Groups to share information
- Track stocks, find local movie times, weather, local gas prices, horoscopes and 30 financial calculators
- Setup their own Webpage to be a MySpace-like page and put a bunch of coolstuff on it like videos, photos, music, blogs, background screen shotsand more. Members can invite friends within their Grapevine communityto join them on their MySpace-like Webpage
- Set up banner advertising to market their business at discounted rates for local companies
- Listen to the Grapevine radio or create their own music playlist to play in the background
- And much more
Inshort, the Grapevine Communities were put together so people couldshare their interest with those around them, within the community wherethey live. The Grapevine sites are truly community oriented, filledwith local information and entertainment. They are not corporate sitesfilled with offers to purchase services or products and bothersomebogus links. They are in fact, as an example of the community spirit ofGrapevine Websites, becoming the place to go to find information aboutlocal schools and churches, and to list and find Real Estate duringthese hard economic times. MySpace, Craigslist,YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and other networking sites are dominatingthe marketplace on a global scale with social, business andentertainment networking sites. But what they don't do is targetindividual communities with all of the combined features of theirsites. The Grapevine Communities combine similar features of thesenational sites into local Websites. The rewardfor each owner of a Grapevine Community Website is advertising revenuesfrom local business owners in each community. Thebenefit for Grapevine members are Reward Points. Quickly, members earnpoints just by posting to the sites. The points can be exchanged for$10, $100 and $250 Gift Cards to Best Buy, Home Depot,
Wal-Mart orStaples. There's no catch. It's our way of saying thanks for using theGrapevine Community Websites. In other words, it pays to use theGrapevine Community Websites.
The goal is simple. Enjoy IndianapolisGrapevine.com, ColoradoSpringsGrapevine.com, RochesterGrapevine.com, NashvilleGrapevine.com or any of the other Grapevine Community Sites åandtell others about it so communities can be brought together to share intheir visions, discuss their challenges, grow their businesses, stayinformed and be entertained.
ABOUT THE GRAPEVINE COMMUNITIES
TheGrapevine Communities were launched in January 2008 by Jared Leisek ofOregon after he and his wife Kristin could not find any informationonline about things to do in their community. Startingat zero and rapidly growing to more than 200 sites nationwide as ofOctober 2008, the goal is to grow to 1500 sites in the next 3-5 years.Each Grapevine Community Website is independently owned and operated.Website hosting, technical support and business development areprovided to each owner.
Main Contact:
Jared Leisek
President The Grapevine Communities
P.O. Box 848
Redmond, Oregon 97756
541-390-9597 ###
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