by Steve Dunford

This morning, I turned my personal Twitter account into the franklincounty-news.com Twitter page.

You can Follow me at Franklin County News@FranklinCoHoops.  I could not change this over.   I will be putting links from the website and retweet some things.

The account is linked to my personal Facebook page.  I will delete the links back to Facebook immediately.  There would be a lot of duplication.

This is one avenue of expansion.  The page is growing by leaps and bounds.  On January 1, there were 3,252 likes on the page.  As of now, there are 4,553.

There are several people that I know that does not have a Facebook account, but has a Twitter one.  The website will now reach them.

On Twitter I will put press releases and stories I write. There will not be any links.

I am not a trained journalist.  So I am a work in progress.  I am starting to develop stories from a different angle.  I take factual information from several sources and put my own spin and thoughts to this.  If you check out the story I wrote on the Congressional elections last night is an example.

I observe things from the media.  I picked this up from watching two television anchors.  When I lived in Sesser, NewsChannel 15 was on our cable, out of Mt. Carmel.  Kyle Peach, who is the chair of the radio and television department at Wabash Valley College, had a 15 minute news cast that replayed for two hours.  I would watch it for state news.  He would cite the source and put things in his own words.

The second I picked up on yesterday.  Carly O’ Keefe the noon news anchor  will not read from the teleprompter and give a 15 second editorial.

I am a conservative.  No matter if someone is a Republican or Democrat, the values of Franklin County are mainly conservative.  I am not saying this to be arrogant, but the majority of the people in this county, think like I do.

I have never voted a straight ticket in my life, but at the same time I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

 

Over the last six months you have been merciful to my blunders, and allowed me to grow..  I have picked a lot of people’s minds in the media.  So many have been gracious to help me out.  It is a work in progress.

Three of my passions are news, weather, and sports.  I have never been more fulfilled in any job that I have worked.  Jim Muir is still the owner/publisher of this site.  He approached me right before he took office as Circuit Clerk in the county taking over the day to day operations.   He has given me the free reign to take things and run with it.

I have picked some minds of some account executives on selling.  All of them have given me the same advice.  The number one selling point is growth.   They basically said keep the page full daily, keep growing,  and advertising will come.  I am in this for the long haul.

If you want an inexpensive way to reach approximately 30,000 people weekly and climbing daily, give me a call at 937-0253 or 513-1274, send me a message on Facebook, or e-mail me at sdunford1970@hotmail.com.

This site is updated seven days a week.   I took Sunday off for a while.  I have reconsidered, the news cycle does not stop.  I am going to keep a window of a few hours on Sunday afternoon between church to unwind, watch the Cardinals and NASCAR.   At the present time, this is the only daily publication in the county.

Also, I would like to know what is going on in each community in the county, what is happening in the nine school districts in the county, to just sum it all up, be all about Franklin County.  If you send something to me, it will be published.

Thank you all for the phenomenal growth.  Remember to follow the website on twitter.  I will do an article in a few days sharing the functions of the site, since several new people are following the page.

This is my conversation with you, the reader, keeping you informed of what is going on with the page.  Because of you, I am not typing to myself.

Again, thank you to each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. You are why I am here.