Recent Tweets containing CINCY or CINCINNATI:
Thanks to: JUITTER.COM for the excellent Twitter tool.
New Cincy.com update
We're working on the relaunch of Cincy.com and hope to have the new look and the first 21 neighborhoods online in the next week or so!
A long time labor of love, we've been working on it and meeting some wonderful new friends along the way. Great writers, photographers and more!
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Cincinnati Neighborhood Summit
The City of Cincinnati Neighborhood Summit is an annual event in its 7th year. Today was my first time, and I'm glad I got to be there.
Attended by hundreds of people from many of the neighborhoods in the tristate, particularly the 52 neighborhoods within the city of Cincinnati, the event is open to all, free to attend and offered several hours of presentations, booths and conversations.
I found it inspirational and encouraging.
One could almost infer from the news announcing it that the event focused largely on reducing crime, dealing with abandoned property and otherwise addressing the problems of our neighborhoods.
In fact, the gathering of people were, overall, so enthusiastic about their communities and the work they are doing that I was drawn into several conversations about Cincinnati's unique history, architecture, neighborhoods, parks and more, with speakers and attendees ranging from architects to recreation commission staff to directors of fair housing programs.
I'll post more about it later tonight or tomorrow after I've had a chance to process the experience a little more.
I'm just so glad I was there to experience the engagement of so many of my neighbors across the tristate.
Here's a link to the Enquirer story
Exploring our neighborhoods: Hyde Park
First Impression: A trendy meeting place for young professionals, a thriving business district and a favorite area for joggers, Hyde Park is a clean, upscale neighborhood with a good balance between offering a cozy, village feel while at the same time supplying all the amenities of a modern commercial area. ...Read full post
Exploring our neighborhoods: Covington
First Impression: Covington is difficult to box – on the one hand, it is a blue collar neighborhood with tattoo parlors and biker bars, and on the other hand, it is the home of the classy Northern Kentucky Convention Center and The Ascent condominium, which sells units for millions. The city boasts a little bit of everything – excellent dining, active night life, arts and culture, unique independent shops, and both a healthy business district and diverse residential neighborhoods. All of Covington’s offerings come with a strong dose of personality. ...Read full post
TweetScan: Watching a word
Back when I was new to Twitter, I used to track the words CINCY, CINCINNATI and CINCI on my mobile phone, just to see how often people mention these versions of our fine city's name in their Twitter messages. I'd get 1, 2 sometimes 5 messages a day on my phone -- posts from total strangers saying they're just landing in cincy or have a meeting next week in cinci or are watching cincinnati get beat by cleveland, that kind of thing.
That was when Twitter was not so fabulously well known, before it grew into TWITTER!! (apparently along with its own Saturday morning cartoon, Twitter breakfast cereal and full line of twit-hero action figures --some items sold separately)... After a while, my phone blew up all day long with all those interesting (and not so interesting) tweets containing cinci, cincy and cincinnati, and drained my battery before lunch, so I stopped tracking them (I know, I know... what kind of moron programs his life with such useless distraction in the first place? "Don't Judge Me...").
Anyway.
Now there are a number of swell online tools for "Twitter-Tracking", one of which I like for how easy it is to embed in a page.
The column on the right has a live feed of 20 recent "tweets" containing the word "cincy", and I've added a simple scan interface to the top, so you may also "scan" for "cincinnati", "cinti" or "cinci"... or any other word you like, using the input at the top.
If you're a twitter user and you use CINCY (or the others) in your messages, your brilliant micro blogging will show up here for all to see, at least for a few minutes or hours... Since embedding it today, I've seen posts about local job interviews, weather, the Bengals and the usual headline twits from WLWT and The Enquirer. It's at least marginally interesting (to some of us, anyway).
The feed example here is made possible by Tweetscan.com.
Twitscoop is another good Twitter scanner.
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Extensive, thorough, or profound; well-balanced or fully developed.
relevant adjective
Connected with or saying something important about what is being spoken about or discussed.
local adjective
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or restricted to a particular place or particular places.
information noun
Knowledge of specific events or situations that has been gathered or received by communication; intelligence or news.
Cliff podcasts his lunch with Chris
From the "Bring the greater intention into every act" department:
Cliff Ravenscraft is a professional podcaster, and he wants audio podcasting to not only be his living, but also a valuable part of being in community.
So when he had lunch with his new friend Chris Bergman yesterday, their lunch became a podcast.
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Digital Cincinnati Facebook group launched
Pete Blackshaw created a new facebook group named Digital Cincinnati this week, on the same day that the last ever edition of the Cincinnati Post hit the streets.
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It's sometimes amazing to me how much possibility can be presented in less than 2 minutes of air time.
This entry is about a WVXU report by Ann Thompson on some encouraging community development in College Hill.
Her story, "Residents help rejuvenate College Hill", aired on 91.7 FM this morning and presents College Hill as a community growing back to vitality as a result of local engagement.
...Read full postGreg's Flying Feet
My office at NetCrafters is warm and I have a nice window that shows me the latest weather and the nature activity that surrounds this building. A cat saunters by every so often. Squirrels chatter, leaves fall, and every now and then a deer will show up. Other, more predictable action outside my window includes visits by the UPS and FedEx trucks and our mailman's daily visits. There is a church behind us that plays hymns at 9, 12, and 6 reminding me of the passing time as I sit at my desk day in and day out locked in engagement with phone, email, and clients.
As a mini-distraction I like knowing that people I care about are out there living life to the max. Former Cincinnatian Greg Meyer is out there having adventures and writing about them here.
As cincy.com matures we'll be listing blogs written by former Cincinnatians. Please leave a comment if you know of a blog that we can list.
Happy New Year!
Jane
NetCrafters
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Post staffers on WLW's Gary Burbank show today
Tomorrow is local radio personality Gary Burbank's last day live on WLW before he retires (re-runs will continue through the end of the year). When Cincinnati Post staffer Rick Bird interviewed Burbank for a story that appeared last week, Burbank offered to have a Post-themed "Sports or Consequences" as a tribute to the newspaper before it closes for good - after 126 years of service to the community - Dec. 31. Today is the big radio gig, from 4 to 6 p.m. on 700 WLW-AM. Tune in (listen live online) and call in. ...Read full post
Streetvibes editor and homeless advocate Jimmy Heath dies
It
is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news that former homeless
person turned homeless advocate and editor of Street Vibes, the
Cincinnati newspaper written by homeless people, Jimmy Heath died on Thursday after a fight with liver disease.
I am not exactly sure when I met Jimmy for the first time - I believe
it was about four years ago - but I know that he and his amazing
photographs left an indelible mark on my life. His story was a remarkable
one of overcoming incredible odds, going from rabid alcoholic who
wanted no more than to die in his sleep and thought drinking and
drinking would help achieve that to accomplished photographer who
showed his work around the globe.
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A weekly CityBeat column
Starting with the Jan. 2 edition I will become a columnist at Cincinnati CityBeat.
The paper is undergoing a mild "refresh" that will include some neat
improvements to the layout, design, writing and coverage in the paper.
My column will appear in the "Voices" section of the paper and be in
every week.
I will be writing about news, issues, events, people, places and all
sorts of things about Cincinnati. I'm very much looking forward to it -
and, of course, working on making Cincy.com an outstanding Web site...
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SuperTalk will be super country
Since Thursday morning, SuperTalk FM 96 5, where I have co-hosted "City Talk Radio" since March, has been playing construction noises in anticipation, reportedly, of a change in formats.
Well, this morning I have received confirmation that the station is going country and Western at noon today. That also means that "City Talk Radio" has been officially canceled.
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Closing the Post and straying from storytelling
As mentioned in my questionably useful tribute to Twitter earlier today, I received a cell phone "tweet" this afternoon of a story by Joe Strupp about the Cincinnati Post's impending year end closing. The story is published at: editorandpublisher.com.
Among the interesting points in his story for me was this:
"There is life after journalism," Neikirk says, but admits, "I liked going to battle everyday in the newsroom." He says he has still not let himself think about the paper's eventual end: "It is bad, there have always been two voices in Cincinnati."
Whitehead, who spoke via cell phone while working her beat at a local police station, said she is glad to get out of news because the industry has strayed from storytelling into "quick, constant updating."
The part about straying from storytelling into "quick, constant updating" is a thought that strikes me as important.
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Twittering the day away
"The wonderful thing about Twitter, is Twitter's a wonderful thing"
(Apologies to Tigger and Pooh...).
You say you don't know what Twitter
is? That's ok. Lots of us are relative newbies. It's worth a look and
depending on your interest in text messaging tools and toys, it may be
worth trying for yourself.
At its most basic level, Twitter is a networking tool that helps users
keep abreast of what
friends, or strangers, are doing. It can be useless or useful, depending on who you ask and how you choose to use it.
Here's why it was useful today:
I got a text message on my cell phone that read:
The reason I got it is interesting...
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New to Cincinnati? Check out this Blog
"Jackie Danicki didn’t know anybody when she moved to Cincinnati."
So begins the About page of her new blog at new2cincy.wordpress.com.
She didn't waste any time changing that. Her latest online work is an
attractive, thoughtful piece of hospitality. It provides a local's look
at life in the city, and one that holds appeal for newcomers and long
time residents, alike.
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CityKin: Nutcracker moves to Aronoff
This is a little off topic for what I am doing in Iowa, but I have just learned from CityKin that the Cincinnati Ballet's annual Nutcracker performance has left Music Hall in Over-the-Rhine, where it has presumably been performed since its beginnings, and is now at the Aronoff Center in downtown.
A comment on the site indicates a "scheduling conflict" is being blamed for the change.
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Follow joefoto on Twitter
Twitter users: Follow me in Iowa on Twitter.com. My username is "joefoto."
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