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Hi everyone, and welcome to our website. Have a look around at our fledgling attempt to bring everything that is going on around Meridian into one spot. We're trying hard to make a place to aggregate everything that is Meridian and put it all together in an easy to read and understand format so there's never an excuse for not knowing what's happening around town.
For years, we've all missed events around town for lack of hearing about what is going on. I've missed things I've really wanted to do, and I've had many people tell me similar stories. Word of mouth has been the primary way of spreading details of upcoming events for way too long, and it seems the news outlets around town cover events and have post-event coverage, but is lacking in reporting the upcoming events. There are dozens of individual websites, facebook pages, etc around town with schedules and calendars, but keeping up with it all to find what you're looking for is complicated.
That's where we come in. We're working towards collecting all that information right here, so you only have to remember one place to go to find out what you're missing around town - today, tomorrow, or next month. Have friends coming to town 3 weekends from now and want to see what's going on that weekend? Simply click the days on our calendar widget on the left side of the page, and it will give you a listing of all reported events from that day. Maybe you're not from Meridian, but you're looking for information on the city and what goes on. We're trying to build out our Local Info categories to cover everything from recreation to education and give a glimpse of the city as a whole.
Try as we may, we cannot possibly keep up with everything that is going on around town. There is simply too much that goes on from day to day for us to be on top of it all. This is where you can help. If you work at a venue or an event, or just know of one that you see is not listed, please add it to the list. It costs you nothing but the couple of minutes it takes to register an account and type out the information about the event. You can even link your Meridian.MS account with your facebook login, so there's no typing in usernames and passwords (we never see or store this information - the system actively checks with the facebook site every time you visit our site). This site will never reach its full potential unless we have people from the community who are willing to share this information with us.
The news is happening all around us every day. The current news outlets do a great job of keeping us informed, but there is so much more going on around town than what we see at 6 and 10, or read in the daily paper. Now, citizen journalism has never been easier. Users can submit news articles and opinion pieces (keep it tasteful please) to keep us informed of the things that didn't make the headlines. We also love photos from around town. Each user account has the ability to create photo albums that can be shared with everyone - or you can create a news article that's full of photos to go along with the story.
Look around and you'll find other features of our site, as well. Feel free to create a classified ad - free of charge, review or rate your favorite restaurant around town, or chat with other folks in the forum. There's even a local history section in the works that is going to be full of interesting information about where the things we see everyday came from. You'll also find there are many ways to communicate and share things with each other in our community section, from photos to messages, we have many of the features you've become used to with the more popular social networking sites.
So, have a look around and let us know what you think. As always, you can reach us at
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. If you have event information you'd like to share, but don't have time -or want- to enter it, you can send it to us at
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