Allentown has launched promotional videos on the city's website. The videos feature attractions, recreation and relocation information among other things.
Mayor Ed Pawlowski said he also plans to post a weekly or monthly video message on the city Web site. The goal is to help Allentown put on its best appearance for tourists, business leaders and future residents considering relocating to the city.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Give back this holiday season
The Morning Call recently published requests of nonprofits in the area. Items include food, toys, toiletries and other goods. Check it out here.
NET needs you!
The NET is actively seeking people for the following positions:
Many exciting changes are occurring with NET that will catapult it through the next year including:
If you are interested in any of the positions listed above, e-mail Vanessa Williams, Marketing Chair at vanessawilliams2004@hotmail.com and she will see that it reaches the appropriate person.
- NET Marketing Committee Volunteers
- NET "Sales Associates" to raise funds from top employers in the Valley
- Professional Development Chair to aid with Business Card exchanges and quarterly business workshops
- Community Outreach Chair to aid with coordination of NET volunteer opportunities including Musikfest
- Intramural Sports Coordinator
- Government Relations representative
- 2007 Intern Program Coordinator
- Grant writer
Many exciting changes are occurring with NET that will catapult it through the next year including:
- Potential hiring of a full-time NET employee
- New additional regular events
- Amazing Race intern program
- Representation at local job fairs
- Reaching out to area young alumni college groups
- Continued involvement with Renew Lehigh Valley
If you are interested in any of the positions listed above, e-mail Vanessa Williams, Marketing Chair at vanessawilliams2004@hotmail.com and she will see that it reaches the appropriate person.
January is NET Membership Month
In honor of the new year, NET is hosting membership month in January. Those individuals that join or renew their membership in January will receive a 10% off the current membership dues of $30. Click here to take advantage of this offer.
Already a dues-paying member? No problem. The current dues-paying member who refers the most individuals to sign up for membership in the month of January, will receive one year of NET membership for free. Just have your friends put your name in the appropriate field.
NET membership is the key to NET’s fantastic social, educational, and cultural events. In the past year, we’ve had political roundtables, professional development seminars, community volunteer opportunities, and recreational outings. And of course, we’ve hosted lots of social events including our regular First Thursdays, which are free for NET members.
In addition, the NET membership card is a gateway to discounts at businesses throughout the Lehigh Valley. We currently have over 100 participating businesses, and with our aggressive new campaign, that number is rapidly growing.
Local merchants, insurance companies, theaters, and restaurants all recognize that suave little card and those who carry it. Click here for the most up-to-date listing. With only a handful of uses, through these discounts the NET membership card easily pays for itself.
Our newest Affiliate Member, Lehigh Valley Style, will be providing a free subscription to all NET members.
As a dues-paying member, you are able to vote in NET elections, run for the NET board, and serve as committee chair. To find out more on how to become further involved in the NET come to our next organizational meeting.
Most importantly, your membership fee helps fund the NET, making all that we do possible.
Thank you in advance for your support of the NET.
Already a dues-paying member? No problem. The current dues-paying member who refers the most individuals to sign up for membership in the month of January, will receive one year of NET membership for free. Just have your friends put your name in the appropriate field.
NET membership is the key to NET’s fantastic social, educational, and cultural events. In the past year, we’ve had political roundtables, professional development seminars, community volunteer opportunities, and recreational outings. And of course, we’ve hosted lots of social events including our regular First Thursdays, which are free for NET members.
In addition, the NET membership card is a gateway to discounts at businesses throughout the Lehigh Valley. We currently have over 100 participating businesses, and with our aggressive new campaign, that number is rapidly growing.
Local merchants, insurance companies, theaters, and restaurants all recognize that suave little card and those who carry it. Click here for the most up-to-date listing. With only a handful of uses, through these discounts the NET membership card easily pays for itself.
Our newest Affiliate Member, Lehigh Valley Style, will be providing a free subscription to all NET members.
As a dues-paying member, you are able to vote in NET elections, run for the NET board, and serve as committee chair. To find out more on how to become further involved in the NET come to our next organizational meeting.
Most importantly, your membership fee helps fund the NET, making all that we do possible.
Thank you in advance for your support of the NET.
Southside Bethlehem visitors center planned, if casino comes
At the foot of the old Bethlehem Steel furnaces, Bethlehem is planning a visitors center that would tell the city's story and orient tourists with cultural and entertainment offerings if a casino is built at the old Steel site.
Kiosks for attractions like the proposed National Museum of Industrial History and SteelStax concert hall would dot the inside of the 7,600-square-foot center, while space would be set aside for films, a souvenir shop, refreshments and restrooms.
Community leaders say the center, on par with what one may find at a federal park, would capture tourists who come for gambling and introduce them to other cultural opportunities in the area, such as the Moravian Industrial Quarter north of the Lehigh River or the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown.
''This makes an awful lot of sense,'' Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan said. ''This is a stop where people can get a quick look at the history of our city and everything that it has to offer.''
The city has been working on the visitors center plan for three or four months. It is still too early in the planning stages to attach a price tag, Callahan said.
Michael Perrucci, of BethWorks Now, developing the Steel land around the casino, said the visitors center is a deal he readily wanted to make because it helps the various components of the project work together.
The center would be housed in the stock house, the oldest building on the Bethlehem Steel site. Built around 1863, the building once was used by the Bethlehem Iron Co.
Jeff Parks, president of ArtsQuest, said the visitors center project would help the other cultural components to help one another.
''This will preserve the old building, interpret the city's history and show everything that the city has to offer,'' said Parks. ''This is an ideal use.''
More here.
Kiosks for attractions like the proposed National Museum of Industrial History and SteelStax concert hall would dot the inside of the 7,600-square-foot center, while space would be set aside for films, a souvenir shop, refreshments and restrooms.
Community leaders say the center, on par with what one may find at a federal park, would capture tourists who come for gambling and introduce them to other cultural opportunities in the area, such as the Moravian Industrial Quarter north of the Lehigh River or the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown.
''This makes an awful lot of sense,'' Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan said. ''This is a stop where people can get a quick look at the history of our city and everything that it has to offer.''
The city has been working on the visitors center plan for three or four months. It is still too early in the planning stages to attach a price tag, Callahan said.
Michael Perrucci, of BethWorks Now, developing the Steel land around the casino, said the visitors center is a deal he readily wanted to make because it helps the various components of the project work together.
The center would be housed in the stock house, the oldest building on the Bethlehem Steel site. Built around 1863, the building once was used by the Bethlehem Iron Co.
Jeff Parks, president of ArtsQuest, said the visitors center project would help the other cultural components to help one another.
''This will preserve the old building, interpret the city's history and show everything that the city has to offer,'' said Parks. ''This is an ideal use.''
More here.
Congratulations on being person of the year!
Time magazine's Person of the Year is (drum roll please) YOU! Yes you, me and everyone else who is part of this information age we live in.
"(2006) is a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
"(2006) is a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.
And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.
The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you."
So for all us bloggers, online social networkers and web 2.0 participants here here. Three cheers for you!Sunday, December 17, 2006
First Night Bethlehem for New Year's
This is a citywide alcohol-free event celebrating New Years complete with two Fireworks displays.
When: Sunday, Dec. 31
Where: Bethlehem, multiple locations
Cost: Outside events, like the Fireworks, free, buttons $15 for performances
What are you doing New Year's Eve?
When: Sunday, Dec. 31
Where: Bethlehem, multiple locations
Cost: Outside events, like the Fireworks, free, buttons $15 for performances
What are you doing New Year's Eve?
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