AmericanTowns.com to Provide Other Community Sites with New "Community Calendar" Widget

Blogs and Other Local Sites Across America Can Now Offer Rich Events Calendar for their Readers
AmericanTowns, the Fastest Growing Site in the Hyper-Local Space, Continues to See Strong Demand for Its Community Events Content

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - June 24, 2008 - AmericanTowns.com, the leader in collecting and organizing community information for local residents, today announced that it will offer its unique community calendar, featuring over 10 million events per year, as a series of free widgets for use by local bloggers and other community-focused websites across the country. A separate widget for each of 15,000 US towns provides an at-a-glance snapshot of that town’s most immediate upcoming events, with direct links to more details at the AmericanTowns.com site for that town.

In recent months, AmericanTowns has seen strong interest from national websites wishing to incorporate its unique community event content. Idearc’s (NYSE: IAR) Superpages.com City Guides, Zvents, and Eventful, among others, have recently added AmericanTowns’ local events into their sites, using AmericanTowns’ customized XML feeds. AmericanTowns Chairman, Ted Buerger, indicated that other national relationships are in process.

Beginning today, bloggers and local websites will also be able to share this local event information with their readers, easily cutting and pasting the AmericanTowns “Community Calendar” widget into their sites. They can also customize the widget’s presentation to fit their site’s design, and add or edit event information for their community based on their local knowledge. The introduction of the new widget follows AmericanTowns’ recent inclusion of community-based blogs in its innovative local platform, where people can find and share the best local information for their community; to date, over 800 blogs have been approved and are featured on the AmericanTowns.com homepage for their city or town.

“AmericanTowns’ goal is to connect the community by delivering information that is most relevant to its residents – whether that is local events, community resources or the local train schedule,” said Jim Maglione, co-president of Community, AmericanTowns. “Widgets are the perfect tool to reach more people and support other community-minded sites.”

The widget is the latest resource provided by AmericanTowns to help people stay connected, with instant access to useful and important local community information.

About AmericanTowns.com

AmericanTowns is the leader in collecting and organizing community information for local residents, empowering them to find and share the best local information for their town. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a “community webspace” that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, maps, local insights, videos, local resources and special tools for organizations. Local residents can add to, comment on, or otherwise edit this content. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens. The fastest growing site in the “hyper-local” space, AmericanTowns.com is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Visit www.AmericanTowns.com.

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