by Pam
No, this isn't an answer to Reaching Broadly's latest post.
If you are a regular reader and
refresh your browser cache (Shift+F5 in most browsers) you will see a menu banner (they call it a
hat) appear across the top of our blog denoting the fact that we joined The
Active Times as a content provider.
As we had it explained to us, The
Active Times is an aggregation website dedicated to sports without balls. You
gotta love a female director who will just come right out and proudly announce
that as part of her pitch. She really didn't have to sell us since it seemed like a natural fit.
They don't want to control,
censor or change our content in any way and just want to link us to a larger
community of people living healthy outdoor lifestyles. They might have
advertising but we still do not. They might make money on their site but we still
do not. I went to their site and saw lots of interesting things I'd like to do,
see, and learn more about. As we understand it, nothing on our blog changes
except the addition of the menu at the top. Click on that and you're off to
Never Never Land and I think you might decide to make that trip often.
When I hovered over the "Water"
tab on their site, there was Canoe, Kayak, Surf and Gear. What? NO SAILING! That
just wouldn't do. The world of active outdoor lifestyle folks need to know
about the wonderful world of sailing so we said yes, please feel free to point
to our posts. They say that they have over one million visitors per month. That's
a lot of potential new sailors.
The director was telling us that she
will ping folks in The Active Times community through social media to engage
them. She'll ask things like, 'what's the temperature where you are?' or 'if
you could change places with your partner for a day, what would your day look
like?' I think I'll like the stimulating questions. We might choose to
add some 'how to get involved in the sport of sailing' posts and we might offer
more explanation on various terms but other than that, nothing should change.
So ... we just moved an old post up
(after this one). Ute from Germany has a follow up question on the main sheet
snag. Who can help?
