The Just Ask Locals Website is a global portal of branded community websites that leverages cutting edge Web 2.0 (social networking) technology to provide vacation destination communities with best-in-class community websites to help them to organize, promote tourism and raise money for local schools.
Locals benefit from aggregating an otherwise disparate collection of individual websites and unpublished information into a single authoritative web presence containing content that they create and control. Visitors benefit from easy access to such aggregated information in a single organized website, and the ability to interact directly with Locals to ask questions and seek help with their travel plans.
Just Ask Locals community websites have advantages associated with global branding, local referral of visitors, link reciprocity, and visitor familiarity across the Just Ask Locals global portal to attain a critical mass of users. Just Ask Locals can help visitors discover boutique vacation destinations that they may not have considered had they not found them on Just Ask Locals.
Individual yet technically identical community websites form the foundation upon which the Just Ask Locals global portal is built. Each individual community website is actually a separate stand alone website that simply shares global branding and membership functionality with the other community websites in the portal.
The rest of the Just Ask Locals portal is designed to (i) leverage its critical mass to attract visitors searching the internet for information about vacation destinations or special interests, and (ii) help those visitors easily search and discover new destinations based upon their interests that they might have not otherwise considered.
Global Portal - Provides high level company information, documentation, global level content and enterprise wide site navigation.
Country Level - Provides comprehensive information about the country, country level forums and groups, information about and navigation to individual communities.
Community Level - Fully functioning community website managed by locals. Advertising directories, visitors’ forum, private community groups, and about wiki. Everything a visitor needs to know!
SEO & SMO - We cast our nets far and wide with high ranking Directory pages optimized for specific keywords, and an aggressive SMO campaign that is impracticable for small stand alone websites.
Critical Mass - Local referrals, reciprocal links and repeat local traffic all improve search statistics. Critical mass is achieved by aggregating many individual community websites under a single domain.
Improved Exposure - Discovery of new vacation destinations by visitors is facilitated with meta tag searchable destination directories at the global and country levels.
The community at large benefits from the ability to bridge distance and time to privately debate, collaborate and gain consensus on important community issues outside of the public eye by utilizing Groups as fully functional private mini-websites.
Individual business owners, community organizations and non-profits benefit by advertising their business or cause on Directories, promoting special Events on the Community Calendar, and locating their business on the Community Map. One should note that the functionality of Directory Ads far exceeds that of most private websites that can cost thousands of dollars to produce.
Children benefit when the community initiates a fund raising campaign to monetize the advanced functionality of Directory Ads to provide funds for primary education. Primary education and providing community internet access is Just Ask Locals' primary cause.
Just Ask Locals believes that to change the world, we must empower our children to learn and share their knowledge. To do so, we must reduce the digital divide by providing a technological window to the world’s collective knowledge.
Just Ask Locals will dedicate a significant portion of profits to fund good works involving projects that facilitate access to communication and information technologies and support primary education.
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