Looking for something to do in the Richmond metropolitan area? Want to find a great restaurant? Wondering what's the latest news in Church Hill or want to check home prices there? Need to find a hardware store nearby? Want to find out what Richmonders are talking about?
Check out the new Richmond.com later this week. Richmond.com, the fiercely independent city portal, unveils a new look and feel next week.
The makeover is more than cosmetic. In addition to a modern design, the new Richmond.com brings the most comprehensive listing of events in the community. The listings range from community events to business and community group listings.
The great news is that you can post events for free. If you are a member of a neighborhood group or want to publicize your civic organization, load your events into our database. The engine powering this database also pulls from other Web sites to provide the most comprehensive list in Richmond.
Richmond.com will now become the place where you can find out what's going on in Richmond, what people are talking about and how to live better.
As for our other site, inRich.com, we'll sunset that brand and the site in the near future. We're not going to redirect the URL just yet, but that is where we are headed. So if you've bookmarked inRich.com, we'll be sending you to Richmond.com.
These changes are coming after we acquired Richmond.com last fall.
Richmond.com and TimesDispatch.com -- the newspaper's Web site -- are designed to appeal to different audiences.
In addition to our event listings, Richmond.com brings a new enhanced yellow pages database. With a listing of all the businesses in the Richmond area, you can search and chart a course for the business of your choice.
Our partnership with the Retail Merchants Association and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce offers you even more details about many of their member businesses.
And, if you own a business in Richmond, you can claim your listing and enhance the placement on search results. This directory currently gets more than 70,000 page views and is displayed on the TimesDispatch.com Web site as well.
Continuing our partnership as the exclusive home of the Multiple Listing Service in Richmond, remember that Richmond.com is the most accurate and comprehensive database of homes for sale in the marketplace. In addition, look for ongoing economic development news from the Greater Richmond Partnership.
We'll be adding even more channels, including a partnership devoted to exploring spirituality in popular culture headed by the Commonwealth Chapel and Lead Pastor Rob Rhoden. Look for content aggregated from media partners such as Urban Views. And in the near future look for even more business and travel focus as we continue to develop the site.
Function meets form as the social networking design reveals an infrastructure based on interactivity with the audience. Richmond.com will add a new social platform that brings blogging, tag clouds, and all of the social networking tools to the site. We're launching that in beta as we continue development in an ongoing fashion.
So when you are looking for what to do, what people are talking about or how to live better in Richmond, point your browser to Richmond.com where you'll find all of that information and more.
Michael Fibison is general manager of Richmond.com. Contact him at (804) 649-6184 or mfibison@mediageneral.com.
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