Baseball in Fort Wayne

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You may have noticed a new page here at Baseball in Fort Wayne. It’s my “Twitter Feed” page that contains a flash widget that provides the last several “tweets” I’ve done. I decided to do this becuase I think it provides a really nice extension to the BBIFW community. Also, I often will post tidbits of Fort Wayne related news that doesn’t make its way into a full post becuase there simply isn’t enough content or time for me to do so.

Also on that page, I’m going to maintain a listing related entities or persons I find on Twitter. So far, I have found the Dayton Dragons (@DaytonDragons), Kane County Cougars (@KCCougars) and the West Michigan WhiteCaps (@Whitecaps). I’ve also found the Portland Beavers (@portlandbeavers), the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres. 

Would love to see the reast of the Midwest League teams (and he MWL for that matter) make their way onto Twitter.

Through Twitter, I started following OurSpaceFortWayne. Today, Baseball In Fort Wayne was featured as the blog of the week. A big thank you goes to OSFW. Check it out:

Each Wednesday, OurSpace will feature an area organization, business or group that share the values of innovation, ingenuity and creativity. To have your entity featured, please send an e-mail to ourspacefortwayne@gmail.com along with a link to your website.

Congratz to pepperwhiteboy for winning our first ever Twitter contest. Thanks to all who participated. I’ll try to put together more contests in the future. Be sure to follow fwbaseball on Twitter so you cat in on the action!

Special thanks to Vintage Blue for hooking us up with the prize.

Okay, so I guess Christmas Eve is not the best time to do a contest! Anywho, I am still giving away this awesome T, so the rules are still the same: 1.) Follow fwbaseball on Twitter, and once you do 2.) send a Direct Message (DM) and you get entered. I’ve had many do the first step, but only a couple have done the second. So, I’m extending the deadline. 6PM EST on Monday, December 29th, I will select a winner.

Original Post is below:

A few days ago, I blogged about the wonderful stuff over at Vintage Blue. I hope you had a chance to peruse their site and perhaps even take advantage of the holiday promo code.

Well, here’s another reason to like the good folks over at Vintage Blue: They’ve provided me with a Fort Wayne Daisies T-shirt to give away . . . any way I see fit (no pun intended). So, here’s the details:

Follow fwbaseball on Twitter. That’s it. Once you’re following me, send me a direct message to enter. Say whatever you want in the message. On Wednesday, 12/24 all entrants will be placed into a drawing for the rad T. I’ll select one at random. I’m even going to pay for the shipping costs.

Obviously, this won’t make it to you in time for Christmas, but I promise to send it out as soon as I can after the holiday.

No Purchase Necessary. Some will enter. One will win. Odds of winning are fully dependant upon the qualified entrants.

If you are into the Social Media/Community/Web 2.0 thing, make sure you include Baseball in Fort Wayne in your hi-jinx! I’ve gotten around to creating profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. I encourage you to add/follow this blog if you are on any of those networks.

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This blog started out as a way to promote my book, but has grown to a personal passion and mission. So I guess it’s already in it’s “2.0″ version, but there’s no telling where it might go from here. We’re successfully engaging folks from all across the nation and in many other countries, so hopefully I am doing my part to preserve and promote the baseball heritage of Northeast Indiana in some fashion. 

That’s pretty much what I set out to do in the first place.

Things will probably slow down here for a while now that the offseason is pretty much here. As news pops up and I am able to produce some interesting content, I’ll post. But probably not on a regular basis.

While I would be flattered if you were to visit this site daily, but I am also a realist. Here are some good ways for you to stay connected (or at least connect as I do).

If you are a user of RSS and RSS feeds, this blog has one. Simply click either of the links on the top of the right side of the page to add this blog’s feed to your preferred service (you can also click here).

Another great option is to have BBIFW posts delivered directly to your eMail inbox. Through a wonderful service called FeedBlitz, the process is simple. Again, the links are on the right side of the page, or you can click here to subscribe.

Whichever method you choose, I do you you will visit the site often and – as always – your comments are welcomed. You can either use my contact form to send me a private e-mail, or get some good dialogue going with all the blog’s readers by using the COMMENTS link that accompanies every post.

And, if all esle fails . . . follow me on Twitter.

Yep. I’ve decided to de-link my personal Twitter ID from Baseball in Fort Wayne “stuff” – so now BBIFW has it’s own Twitter ID. FOLLOW BBIFW so you can get updates relateing to this blog/site.