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Phil Lewis, editor of the Naples Daily News. shared his 'Perspective" a community event coming up in Southwest Florida: The Centennial Forum celebrating 100 year National Press Club. Monday December 8th, 2008 at 7 pm, Sugden Theater, 701 First Ave. S.Naples, Florida. Free admission to the public. Reservation needed. Call the Sugden Theater Box office: 263-7990

More information at Naples Press Club site

Apart from the facts about Who, What, Where and When, Lewis wrote:

Our own Naples Press Club scored quite a coup when it was selected to host the 10th and final National Press Club “Centennial Forum.” Other forums have been held in Washington, D.C., and Denver and at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri. This coming week forums will be held at the University of Indiana and at the Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Mich

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Today, the club [ National Press Club] has the reputation of being the world’s leading journalism organization, having survived two world wars, a depression and the early stages of a digital revolution. The club hosts 70 or more luncheons a year featuring history makers and world leaders. The list over the years is eye-popping: Krushchev, deGaulle, Yeltsin, Mandela. The club has hosted kings and queens and every president since Theodore Roosevelt.

It’s quite an honor that Naples gets a chance to help the club celebrate its 100th year.

Local Governments Should Use Social Media To Promote Tourism, Columnist Writes.

http://www.governing.com/articles/0812techtalk.htm

From the ICMA News Briefing this morning:

Local Governments Should Use Social Media To Promote Tourism, Columnist Writes.

In an article for Governing (Dec. 2008) magazine, Ellen Perlman asks, "Tourism marketing departments of America: Are you working with bloggers, vloggers and podcasters to help promote your state, county, city, park or campground? If not, why not?" She advises "state and local governments...to take lessons on what we'll call 'Online Community 101.'" While having an online presence is a good thing, it "is not the same as building tourism visits by courting the people who write, talk and video about travel digitally." Any local government "tourism bureau that woos and works with these people will likely get some ink. Or pixels, in this case," she writes. For example, "marketing people in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, teamed up with a local group to host a 'pod camp,' a social media get-together for businesses and residents. They showed them around the city in the same way they would a writer from a traditional magazine or newspaper. That night, many bloggers went back to their hotel rooms to write about what they saw and did."