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ON-LINE COMMUNITY CONCEPT GETS A NEW PROFILE Pioneering site in Maine plans to incorporate local groups' info into web news pages.

Publication: NewsInc
Publication Date: 10-SEP-01 		Format: Online - approximately 804 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: ON-LINE COMMUNITY CONCEPT GETS A NEW PROFILE Pioneering site in Maine plans to incorporate local groups' info into web news pages.(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
Newspapers are redrawing the boundaries for their on-line communities as local groups' interest in posting events and information voluntarily has flagged.

In Maine, the three-year-old statewide MaineCommunities.com has ceased to provide free web pages to local groups. Although more than 1500 organizations signed up at one time or another to post their news on pages they designed through the site, the sponsoring MaineToday.com -- the web site of Blethen Maine Newspapers of Portland -- decided to pull the plug as of Aug. 31.

"It didn't present news and information to the general public in a streamlined manner," says Jessica Tomlinson, MaineToday.com's on-line community organizer. "If you didn't know a group existed, you wouldn't know about the great work they...



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