Smile, Baltimore -- VisitMyBaltimore.com is Like Your Own Local YouTube! For any Baltimorean who's ever wanted his or her own 15 minutes of fame, VisitMyBaltimore.com may just do the trick. A new web site launched by one of our WebAdvantage.net clients, the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitor's Association (BACVA), VisitMyBaltimore.com enables Baltimore residents and fans to help attract tourists to the region via home-made videos highlighting favorite sights, sounds, hang-outs and happenings of Charm City.

To launch the new venture, BACVA has tied in a contest to win $2,007.00 for the best "My Baltimore" video. For a local business owner, this contest presents a great opportunity to promote themselves and win a few extra dollars at the same time. The contest runs through September 4, 2007.

The innovative VisitMyBaltimore.com concept leverages the growing popularity of marketing via consumer-generated video sharing community sites, like YouTube. The tourism and hospitality industry can take advantage of this kind of concept’s popularity of the moment to create their own buzz without having to take on the expense of creative production. The concept is a “natural” for tourism bureaus, but the same logic could apply to other markets, such as colleges and universities or other “community” type organizations.

As our experience in social media has shown, sites like this can generate great attention but also need some care and nurturing to get off the ground (and to help be search engine friendly, which will also count when it comes to attracting web users).

VisitMyBaltimore, officially launches on July 10th

Submit your Baltimore video here, and show the world the people and places you love in Baltimore!

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