ABC Rural is running a competition "Revive and Thrive" ... with money to give to not for profit organisations for ideas that will attract people to your town.
Now even though I call the town I live in the "One Horse Town" it really is not that bad.
We are halfway between Sydney and Adelaide, 4 hours to Melbourne, an hour to a major airport so you can get here without too much difficulty.
I have risen to the challenge of this competition and thought it might provide an opportunity to make one of my dreams a reality.
I don't know about you, but since entering the blogosphere I have met so many like-minded, fascinating, wonderful friends and my only regret is that to this point they are all two dimensional.
America has the annual Blogher conference in New York. What do we have Down Under?
Nada!
How about an annual country retreat - "Blogging on the Bidgee" (Murrumbidgee River runs through the OHT and is just beautiful) to be held in my One Horse Town?
A weekend of kayaking, writing, chilling, networking with bloggers from all over Australia?
OHT was once awarded Australia's tidiest town, it has lots of history and accomodation and is very friendly - so it wouldn't be like having a Blogging event in a town with a tumbleweed floating past, not quite anyway.
I know its a long way to travel for some... but maybe with the money they are offering could be used to attract big namers - for example Mia Freedman?
An annual weekend in the Country mingling with bloggers.
We could have workshops, guest speakers - bloggers talking about their blogs
What do you think?
Do you have any feedback / further ideas to make this idea a winner?
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6 days ago
Sounds like a great idea. Doing things for charity always is a great idea in my viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteKindest regards,
Tom Bailey
I would so come :) Hope it gets off :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a FANTASTIC idea! I am super jealous at just the potential that you would have a Blogher type event in your town.
ReplyDeleteCount me in Sharni. Tehehe...
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I wish we have the same thing in Oz.=(
Great idea, though you know we would all have to stay at your place!
ReplyDeleteI can camp ....
ReplyDeleteSeriously, A great idea. If you have it at Easter 2011 that will get me out of a boy type gathering (its a tragic car thing) in Southern Qld. :)
The only question is are there plenty of cafe's with free internet so that people can check their blogs whilst there!
ReplyDeleteBloggers conference needs internet :)
But i think its a great idea!
Its about time things were held out of the cities.
that is a great point Al - maybe in my application I can suggest the money from the grant can go towards ensuring we have this available!!! cheers
ReplyDeleteHell yes! There's no way I could get to New York, but OHT? That's an affirmative!
ReplyDeleteYou go Sharni! Unite the Australian bloggers for an OHT extravaganza!
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of this...keep us posted :)
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