Paulding.com (blog)

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Amount: 
$ 15,000
Blog: About making Paulding.com a financial success, from discussing practical aspects of building its revenue base from advertising and paid subscriptions, to sharing prior (and future) technical and strategic successes, failures, objections and issues.
Organization: 
Neomaxcom, LLC
Link: 
Paulding.com
G. Patton Hughes on PBS Mediashift Idealab
Winner: 
G. Patton Hughes
Bio: 
G. Patton “Pat” Hughes has worked in a wide variety of media jobs, including community journalism, advertising, online hosting, clerking, TV reporting, sports reporting, and marketing. As the population of Paulding County, Ga. began to boom, Hughes saw the opportunity for a hyperlocal news site and obtained the Paulding.com domain in 1997 as editor of a local weekly newspaper. Monthly reach in the community is about 30 percent of households. Hughes has a B.A. degree from Hendrix College and is married with two children.