[OMS_MANAGERS] Digital walking tour

[Mainstreet Union EDC]

We have researched a bit and felt hosting companies were too expensive for
our program.

WordPress has some themes that can serve for digital tours.

Cherie
Main Street Union and Economic Development Committee

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 8:15 AM Don Warren <donwarren214 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.thedallesmainstreet.org/spooky-town-2020
> in case you want to start at The Dalles Main Street - Ghost Tour page
>
> ;0)
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:07 AM Kelly Haverkate <kellyjhaverkate at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great suggestion Don, thank you!
>> Thank you for the Distrix suggestions as well!
>>
>> In our case, we aren't promoting businesses, but rather our historic
>> resources and the cemetery.
>> So, I'm liking the low cost idea for this one, as there'll be no
>> supporting funds coming in.
>>
>> Kelly
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:01 AM Don Warren <donwarren214 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> in The Dalles, we started using QR Codes, first for "Spooky town 2020"
>>> ghost story tours.
>>> And we plan to extend then "coding" using a window sticker in each
>>> address in the main street overlay.
>>> The QR Codes take people to youTube videos that we have created.
>>> There are also Qr Codes that take people to stories and content on our
>>> main street web site, one or more of which in future will be a walking map
>>> of sites
>>>
>>> so, no cost version of walking tours
>>>
>>> ALSO, you can create your own walking maps in GOOGLE maps and share them
>>> publicly.
>>> and you can also use QR Codes to get people to those google maps
>>>
>>> we are low budget scrappy and have some staff technical skills
>>>
>>> have fun
>>> don
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:31 PM Dallas Downtown Association <
>>> m.fisher.dda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I do believe  DISTRIX  helps with walking tours? It’s a app that has
>>>> many other Main Streets listed with downtown businesses and has a list of
>>>> what type of business. I do believe for a cost you can set up walking tours
>>>> through this app.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:28 PM Director, Executive <
>>>> exec at newbergdowntown.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am interested in this too.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:50 PM Kelly Haverkate <
>>>>> kellyjhaverkate at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> I know there's been discussion about walking tours, in the past.
>>>>>> Does anyone have recommendations for what they've used for hosting
>>>>>> companies, software, web pages etc?
>>>>>> Not actually sure where to start...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks very much!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kelly Haverkate
>>>>>> Downtown Dayton
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> *Polly Peterson*
>>>>> Executive Director, *Newberg Downtown Coalition*
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Melanie Fisher, *Executive Director
>>>> *Dallas Downtown Association*
>>>> *Office:* 971-701-1880*  | Direct: *971-707-2335
>>>> PO Box 903 | Dallas, OR. 97338
>>>>
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