How to Get Your Spring Sports Team Featured on Patch

Make sure your favorite sports teams are highlighted on Wayland Patch this season!

Whether it’s on the baseball diamond, at the soccer field or during a flag football game at a local park, spring sports are underway around Wayland and we want to help share all the great moments and highlights with the community! Patch is looking for athletes, coaches, parents, booster club members and fans who are eager to show their team spirit on Wayland Patch. News about any team – from youth t-ball to middle and high school sports, recreational teams, adult leagues and more – it’s all welcome. Here's are six ways you can share news about your sports team this spring: 1. Start a blog about your sports team: Share stats, recaps, photos and/or videos from the game in your own sports blog. Discuss the team, coaches and players with other…

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Wayland Patch is Seeking New Bloggers

Have an opinion? A passion? A hobby? Share it on Wayland Patch.

Calling all hobbyists, advocates and meeting attendees. Parents, students and teens. Pet-lovers, sports enthusiasts and volunteers. Wayland Patch is seeking a few good bloggers on our site. Are you passionate about government? Do you attend School Committee meetings? Maybe you sit on a local board, committee or group? Do you volunteer in town? What about a love of sports, arts or science? Do you love to write? Are you passionate about a hobby? If so, we want you to blog for us. Our Local Voices Bloggers write daily, weekly or monthly — as often as you'd like — on a topic of their choosing. They write short or long, in essay-style or draft a quick how-to. Blogging on Patch is a great way to share your opinions and expertise with the …

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Have a Blog? Patch Can Help Spread the Word

Did you know that blogging on Patch can help draw attention to the blog you already write elsewhere?

Wayland Patch is always on the lookout for new bloggers. But sometimes, that just means the blogger is new to Patch, not necessarily new to blogging. One of the hardest things about blogging is reaching an audience. It isn't easy to raise the visibility of your blog above that of the myriad of other blogs out there. But if you don't manage to do that, the time and energy you put into your blog might go unnoticed by the very readers you're trying to reach. That's where Wayland Patch can help. Patch wants to provide an additional platform for the blog you're already spending time to write. Here's how it works: - We'll set you up with a blog on Wayland Patch. It takes a few minutes on the front end to set up, but then it's up to you to blog …

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Share Your Local Voice by Blogging on Wayland Patch

Got something to say? Patch has a platform for local blogger and we want you to take advantage of it.

What's Happening

Five Things You Need to Know Today: Feb. 7

This and that for your Tuesday.

1. The Great Presenters Series at Wayland Public Library continues tonight with "Acupuncture 101 - The What, Why and How." 2. Speaking of acupuncture, have you checked out our Local Voices section? Wayland acupuncturist Marisa Fanelli is just one of several bloggers contributing their local voice to Wayland Patch. We're adding new bloggers all the time -- we welcomed Jim Forti just yesterday -- so check "Local Voices" often. And if you have an interest in blogging on Patch, you can learn more here. 3. The Little Dove Early Childhood Center is conducting site visits and director interviews today. Registration is underway for the 2012-13 school year. 4. The Wayland Community Pool is gearing up for a host of spring programs (Scuba, anyone?). …

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Share Your Local Voice by Blogging on Wayland Patch

Got something to say? Patch has a platform for local bloggers.

We're looking for bloggers who can riff on various topics, share their personalities and engage our readers in discussions. Patch is more than a news site, it's an online conversation about your community. Then, we want to hear from you. This isn't a reporting job. It's blogging. You write what you want to say, when you want to say it. Do it on your schedule, whether that's posting multiple entries per day or a couple times a month. Patch won't own what you post, so you can repost your entries to your other blogs. Much like The Huffington Post has done, Patch is providing local bloggers an online platform to have their words seen by a larger audience. Be interesting. Be provocative. Be yourself. My role as editor would be to review blog …

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