Racine Kiosk

If you haven't had a chance to visit Racine Kiosk, give it a look. It's our newest site in the growing RacinePost media empire, and it's actually going very well.

Of course, we're going to say that, but hear me out. The idea of the Kiosk is we wanted one place to put all of the events we were being emailed by readers and local organizations. Truth is, there's a lot going on in Racine and we were getting buried trying to sift through what to put on the main site and blog. The solution? Create another website.

What I like about Racine Kiosk is that it's fully searchable. Use the Google bar on top of the site to sift through everything by month, date, subject and so on. We're also tagging entries by month and organization (like YPR, library, etc.), and created a nifty widget for the main page that automatically updates the last 25 items we added to the blog.

It's not a perfect system. We'd love to have a fully functional calendar organized by date, but I haven't found one that works well (at least for a two-person staff trying to keep up on local news). But it's what we got. So, please, give it a shot. And, send us your local events ... the more the merrier. Our blogs are getting indexed by Google, so if nothing else, we're hoping the events will pop up on Google searches.

Also, if you have ideas to make RacinePost or Racine Kiosk better, let us know. We're always looking for help.