Gig Harbor Guide: New Web site, new blog — and we’re looking for bloggers

Laureen Lund

Gig Harbor Guide

The City of Gig Harbor Tourism Marketing office, along with the Gig Harbor Visitor Information Center, are the lead organizations for promotion and marketing for our community.

Our Web site, www.gigharborguide.com, is the most viewed for Gig Harbor-area information. And starting in mid-March, our Web site will have a fresh, more colorful and much more user-friendly design.

We can’t wait to share it with you!

At the same time, our Gig Harbor Guide blog also will change. No longer will the blog be hosted at Blogspot. It will be hosted on our Web site and be much easier to access, comment on and use as tool for the community.

This is another great development for Gig Harbor.

As part of these changes, we are recruiting “guest bloggers” to join our team. The new blog will provide a great opportunity to bring community members into the conversation with insight, ideas, suggestions and tips about our community.

We’ve been thinking about some topics we would like to have community bloggers focus on: environment, heritage, recreation, food, kids and family. We are open to other ideas, as well.

So here’s what we need: If you are as passionate about Gig Harbor as we are, if you’re a decent writer — not a politician or community hotshot but an average guy or gal — we’d love to hear from you.

Of course, the blog is the property of the Gig Harbor Marketing Department, so we will have some rules. All blogs must be positive. Period. There will be no slamming of businesses or people in the community. No political statements or candidate endorsements. If you can’t be positive, this isn’t the place for you.

All blogs will be edited and reviewed by me prior to being posted, so if you object to editing, then this isn’t the place for you.

We would love to expand our blog to have a greater voice for the community.

Interested? Send me an e-mail to apply. We will be taking applications over the next couple of weeks, and we’ll let you know who we have chosen by the end of March.

If you would like to check out our current blog, visit www.gigharborguide.blogspot.com.

We’d love to have you on the team!

Gig Harbor Guide columnist Laureen Lund is the marketing director for the City of Gig Harbor. She can be reached by e-mail at lundl@cityofgigharbor.net.