MidwayChamber.com

If you visit www.midwaychamber.com you’ll notice a couple of new things on the website. I am going to briefly summarize all of the new content and how you can use it to help your business grow, network with other chamber members, or just get some news on the chamber and the community. The best way to learn about these features is to check them out! And you can always email Travis with questions. Let’s start by looking at the chamber’s homepage.

New Chamber Home Page

There are three new features with links conveniently located on the home page.

Online Newsletter – Midway Avenues has moved online! If you didn’t receive the first edition yet make sure you sign up! A complete archive of our newsletters will be kept available online. By moving our newsletter online news can be more easily shared with others, you can discover more information by clicking on links embedded in the newsletter, and it’s always readily available! Currently sent out monthly.

Chamber Blog – Contains an archive of chamber news and events. Comments section for those who want to interact with Chamber Happenings. You can also sign up for the RSS feed to stay on top of what’s happening.  Updated with full stories weekly, mini stories 3+ times a week.

Social Media Center (Midway Chamber Live) – A One Stop Spot for everything MCC. This page contains links to other places on the web you can find us (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) and has local news, chamber news via twitter and our blog, and other news sources to keep you up to date. You can also use this page to post events or deals you want to advertise to other chamber members. Updated Hourly.

Midway Chamber Live

How to Use these New Features:

There are a number of ways to use these features and how you choose to use them is based entirely on your needs and wants from the chamber.
•    You can choose to continue to receive the news as you always have. If you do nothing at all you should at least be receiving the new newsletter. We will not be mailing newsletters anymore so you should take the time to sign up.
•    You can choose to expand the amount of news you receive.  Subscribing to the blog RSS feed, following our twitter feed, and periodically checking out Midway Chamber Live will give you access to more events and deals than only receiving the newsletter will do.
•    You can choose to interact with the news, make chamber news, and interact with chamber members. This can be done on all different levels and can take as much or as little time as you’d like it to.
o    Try making a comment on the blog about something you feel you have insight on.
o    Use Twitter to share news, events and deals with members: Use twitter to send a message with the hashtag #MCCE, or share a special deal with chamber members by using #MCCD. These hashtags show up on the home page of Midway Chamber Live. (I will be writing a blog post on using twitter in the coming week for those of you who have no idea what I am talking about)
o     Use LinkedIn to connect with hundreds (and hundreds) of chamber members. The Midway Chamber group has a forum for discussing news and ideas with other members. Receive and write recommendations, share presentations, and much, much more.
o    Use Facebook to connect to the largest online social network in the world.  We just recently launched the Midway Chamber Fan Page and you can connect with people there as well as view, comment on and save pictures from lunches and events.

Social Media and Networking is already a huge deal and it promises to only get bigger. We at the chamber want to provide you with opportunities to embrace this technology and are here to help you in whatever way we can. And as a huge dork, Travis will continue to update and enhance our online services, so if you have any suggestions, he’d love to hear them. If you have any questions about any of the materials covered in this brief flyer, fell free to contact Travis at 651-646-2636 or oneil@midwaychamber.com.

Figured I would give people a link to the newsletter here

Midway Avenues Online Edition #1

Feel Free to make comments about the newsletter here

First of all, I made a mistake and would like everyone to know that the luncheon this week is at Town and Country Club, not Midland Hills as the newsletter says… An email will follow tomorrow just to make sure everyone knows where to go.

More importantly and less embarrassingly for me, we have added a new signup for the newsletter box and a link to the newsletter archive on the homepage. So if you accidentally deleted your newsletter or want to read it from a different computer all you have to do is go to www.midwaychamber.com and click the newsletter icon in the bottom left corner.

We just sent out the New Online Newsletter! You can expect to see it on the website sometime next week. There will also be a new Join our mailing list link on the website as well, so if you didn’t receive the newsletter and just can’t get enough of the Midway Chamber, you will be in luck! Stay tuned for more info!

People who have recently visited the Midway Chamber’s website have noticed a new feature on the homepage. We have recently added a feature called Midway Chamber Live (If you haven’t checked it out yet heres a link – www.midwaychamber.com/live.html.  The idea behind it is to create a one stop place for you to get the latest news from the Midway Chamber and other sources. It has recently be upgraded to include a number of new features. You will be able to access the chamber’s twitter feed and blogs, Business, Local, Sports and National News from the Pioneer Press, in addition to other sources of news that Chamber Members read. There are still plenty of additions and plugins to be added to this site so continue to check back for new features!