Outside Erie

GlobalErie blogger Ashley Weber last week introduced readers to a tradition that some of her friends from Erie started several years ago.
On Green Apple, Weber describes a tradition called “Beard Season” — an annual ritual in which this group of guys agree to grow out their beards from Oct. 1 through Thanksgiving. The night before […]

If you haven’t yet checked out David VanAmburg’s new blog, Think Big Erie, do yourself a favor.
David is doing an excellent job of covering a range of important issues and raising a lot of thought-provoking points about Erie and its future. Unlike many of the rest of us here on GlobalErie, he writes with a […]

Former Erie Times-News colleague Jack Grazier is stirring up quite a bit of interest lately on Heart Attack Jack — his blog that talks about recovering from a severe heart attack.
Jack is using his venue to push Hamot Medical Center to create a heart-healthy restaurant in Erie. If Hamot really is about promoting healthy hearts, […]

Outside Erie is just one of several Erie-centered blogs that have devoted space today to Blog Action Day.
Here are some of the others:
Fellow GlobalErie blogger David VanAmburg writes a thoughtful piece on water on Think Big Erie.
Eat Your Veggies talks about simple ways to conserve during your trips to the grocery store.
Emma Steinfeld offers some […]

Today, GlobalErie.com is pleased to join more than 14,000 other bloggers worldwide who are participating in Blog Action Day.
Regular visitors here know that I’m a big advocate of making Erie a center of environmental friendly manufacturing.
Companies in Erie like GE Transportation, Lake Erie Biofuels, and Railpower Technologies are already leading the way — creating products […]

David VanAmburg, the author of Think Big Erie (our newest GlobalErie blog) has an interesting recent post that points to the Web site for the Project for Public Spaces as a source of inspiration for Erie’s planners.
I was pointed to that site not long ago by a colleague, and for those who care about Erie’s […]

I received a comment last week from Joel Natalie, the author of Erie blog Radio Free JoJo, saying that he would love to see more information on Outside Erie about best practices from other communities.
When we started this site, that was one of our major goals.
With so many of our visitors hailing from outside of […]

When we launched GlobalErie in August, one of the earliest discussion threads centered on Erie’s technology infrastructure — or, rather, the fact that Erie is behind many other cities in providing the technology options that are necessary to stay competitive.
The discussion was interesting, but it didn’t offer any real solutions.
So we’ve invited an expert, Erie […]

The GlobalErie Network is about to grow yet again.
During the next few weeks we have three new bloggers ready to share their perspectives and opinions.
And I’m pretty sure they will bring some new ideas and voices to our growing online community.
The first is Erie entrepreneur David VanAmburg and his new blog, Think Big Erie, which […]

GlobalErie blogger Mike Heid has an interesting piece about the marketing effort underway in Midland Texas.
Heid writes that Erie can learn some lessons in self promotion from its counterpart in the heart of what was once oil country.
I know that Erie has many issues it needs to work out before it would ever embark on […]