To AmericanTowns.com Visitors and Friends

We are very proud to share some exciting news with you.  AmericanTowns has established a relationship with Idearc Media Corp., the NYSE-listed publisher of the Verizon Yellow Pages and home to Superpages.com.  We want to explain what this means to you and the communities we serve.

AmericanTowns.com is working hard to make its “community web space” platform one that you can use as you like, when you like, and for whatever you like, to satisfy your interests.  We remain firmly committed to our mission to connect you and members of your community through the power of the Internet.

Idearc is making a $3.3 million investment in AmericanTowns.  We will use these funds to provide you with more community event listings, more useful resources and additional tools to help you and your community share information more easily, in a greater variety of formats (text, video, etc.). And, while we strive to make sure every AmericanTowns site is useful from day 1, we want you to feel empowered to correct, add to or even direct key content of this shared web space.

For Idearc, their customers will benefit from accessing information from our extensive community events database, which is the largest in the nation, and from our other resources. This means the events and initiatives you promote here will have still broader audience.  We also are expanding distribution of information on AmericanTowns through Google Local and other internet channels.  So, for whatever is important to you, get the word out!

We also announced today our plans to provide such a community webspace for each of the 22,000 towns in America over the next several months.  This means you’ll soon have information on what’s happening in every town in America – all accessible at AmericanTowns.com.   With a click of the mouse, you can check upcoming events in your town or learn about towns you plan to visit.

And all the while we’ll be asking for feedback from you:  What do you like about the site? What could we do better? What’s local to your community that you think we should add? What new applications or tools would you like to have?

We are building AmericanTowns.com to be your space – it is an “open” space – that allows you to tell us what you want, or to make the changes/additions yourself.  Your involvement in shaping the future of AmericanTowns.com will truly make it your community’s “virtual town square”.  We want AmericanTowns.com to evolve and grow naturally according to your needs, interests and feedback.

So, please share your comments and join us in celebrating today’s exciting news!

Sincerely,

Jim Maglione                                    Ed Panian
Co-President of Community        Co-President of Technology

…And the entire team at AmericanTowns.com