by Sheila Scarborough | Jan 12, 2012 | Hutchinson KS Blogger Tour, Meetings and Conferences, Travel and Travel Media, Twitter, Web Communications
What can city people learn from rural folks? If my own experience is any indication – a TON. Thanks to a diverse social network that includes interesting people in small towns and rural areas, I’ve learned so much over the last few years about the hopes,...
by Sheila Scarborough | Feb 6, 2011 | Economic Development, Hutchinson KS Blogger Tour, Meetings and Conferences, Travel and Travel Media
After our great experience holding the 140 Characters Conference Small Town in the restored Fox Theatre in Hutchinson, Kansas, I began thinking about how small towns with the right timing, venue, networks and entrepreneurial spirit can host more tech- and social...
by Sheila Scarborough | Oct 22, 2010 | Economic Development, Hutchinson KS Blogger Tour, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
The Web means you can live anywhere (even a small town or rural area) and still be connected to the world. The Web means that any venue with good WiFi, even an historic Art Deco theater in a revitalizing downtown, can host a meeting for interesting people with...
by Sheila Scarborough | Oct 4, 2010 | Economic Development, Hutchinson KS Blogger Tour, Travel and Travel Media, Twitter, Web Communications
There is an exciting new development for anyone who has ever wondered how to attract buzz and interest to their small town or rural area….and I’ll explain what a pump jack photo (to the left) has to do with it. The popular 140 Characters Conference series –...
by Sheila Scarborough | May 14, 2009 | Hutchinson KS Blogger Tour, Reaching out to bloggers and travel media, Tourism Marketing on the Web, Travel and Travel Media, Web Communications
As soon as our gaggle settled in for the first meeting on the blogger’s tour in Hutchinson, Kansas, we started whipping out the laptops, cameras and other geek accoutrements. That’s what those who are wired into the social web do – we start...
