{"id":650054,"date":"2013-04-01T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:49:06","slug":"ely-bans-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650054","title":{"rendered":"Ely Bans Social Media?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ely.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-8434\" alt=\"ely\" src=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ely.jpg?w=400&#038;h=172\" width=\"400\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ely.org\/\">Ely Minnesota<\/a> has made a bold move and it\u2019s\u00a0caught the attention of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/31\/ely-minnesota-social-media-ban_n_2979816.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an attempt to get people outside &#8220;where only the birds tweet,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ely.org\/\" >town of Ely, Minn.<\/a>, has announced a ban on social media, going into effect on April 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing online here is a fish. And why would anyone need Pinterest?\u201d Ross Petersen, Mayor of Ely, said in a statement. \u201cWe have a big bulletin board over at the grocery store for that sort of thing. Or the Twitter? We have at least 140 characters right here, living in Ely. And don\u2019t even get me started on the kids listening to their Zunes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love Ely \u2013 and I especially love them around April 1<sup>st<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>I have a client who <a href=\"http:\/\/timberbay.com\/\">rents cabins and houseboat in Ely<\/a> so I always keep an eye on what they are doing. I love their strategy to make a media splash every year for April Fool\u2019s. It\u2019s fantastic way to get attention for all of the local businesses \u2013 a perfect lead by example way to show other communities how to do it. By working together each business works to raise awareness of the area \u2013 so rather than competing with your neighbor for a smaller pool of visitors, the community works together to draw from a larger pool. So yes, Duluth and Brainerd \u2013 Ely is competing with you! Although really, it\u2019s great publicity for the whole state. Maybe it\u2019s better for me to say \u2013 watch our WI, ND, SD, IA \u2013 we\u2019ve got a concerted media effort and it starts with Ely!<\/p>\n<p>And while it\u2019s probably a good idea to go on vacation and get offline for a bit \u2013 I must admit that I am typing this on my way home from New Orleans because the flip side of going offline for vacation is staying online to extend a vacation. We woke up in Memphis, visited Graceland and now I\u2019ve got 12 hours to work on the road. The kids don\u2019t even mind much as they are either asleep, watching a movie or picking out our next pit stop on TripAdvisor!<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8433\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8433\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;%23038;post=8433&#038;%23038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ely Minnesota has made a bold move and it\u2019s\u00a0caught the attention of\u00a0the Huffington Post\u2026 In an attempt to get people outside &#8220;where only the birds tweet,&#8221; the town of Ely, Minn., has announced a ban on social media, going into effect on April 1, 2013. \u201cThe only thing online here is a fish. 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