DigElogROCORI defines itself as part newspaper, part radio show, part television – only all online. They focus on news in Rockville, Cold Spring & Richmond, MN.
It’s really a nice site that does a great job of including blog, podcast, and vlog technologies. There are stories on the local baseball games, local cultural events, and current events. It also includes profiles of local citizens and stories are sponsored by local businesses.
I particularly enjoyed the 5 minute video of Cold Spring Maennerchor trip to Ireland. (I have to admit I recognized the Dublin pub they visited for lunch.) The trip was from 1995, which I think is just great and reflective of the kind of community participation they are getting to supply content to the site.
DigElogROCORI also keeps their readership up on their stats, which is fun to see. From August 1, 2006 to May 25, 2007 they could boast 80,000 stories viewed or 263 stories per day.
It would be fun to know how many were new visitors and how many were regular readers. If you were looking for a place to live – wouldn’t something like this be perfect to give you the flavor of a town in a way that the Chamber never could? (The Chamber is important too – but this is a great addition.)
