Living in a big city never have any shortage of ideas for things to blog about. There are new stats and reports from the MLS® (yes, Canadian REALTORs® own the trademark on the term MLS® in Canada), the banks and various local and national organizations almost every week and sometimes 2-3 a week.

Then there are events around town. There are festivals and big industry shows (boat show, car show, golf show, outdoors show, motorcycle show) happening constantly. I just can't keep up. I kept forgetting to blog about the boat show last week and I just never got to it and now its over. No if you don't live in a bog city then you may not have some of these options.

But you do have lots of other options and the added benefit that people around town might even get to recognize you. There are something like 13,000 REALTORs® in Metro Vancouver so I am unlikely to be noticed about town. I have created a new hyper-local blog about my neighbourhood, False Creek. Today I was down at the local community centre and took a look at the notice board and there was all sorts of blog post ideas right there in front of me. Notices for neighbourhood association meeting, exercise classes, clubs, parent groups. So I pulled out by handy camera phone and snapped pucs of the all the notices that I thought were useful and now I have a nice, if slightly blurry (1.3 megapixel), list of things to blog about and pics to add to the posts too.

I am sure there must be a similar place in your city, town, or neighbourhood (or neighbOrhood). Check it out and then get down to writing. This is the kind of topuc that will help broaden you readership and build those relationships in the community. And once you've written your post be sure to email the company, club, etc that you've blogged about to let them know you've given them the shout out.

Another idea that I had yesterday as the family and I headed out to pool was to feature ideas for family outings with description and photo record of your outing. So I grabbed the camera as I headed out the door (last because I was working on a blog post) and took some pics getting the kids in the van, some shots of this beautiful new pool that we were going to, some shots in the change rooms (hahaha, just kidding, I put then camera away in the lobby) and lastly a nice shot (i hope) of the sun setting as we packed them back into the van for the ride home.

Isn't this a cool building? 

Happy Blogging!