The Hartford Stage!

I was looking up "things to do" in Hartford yesterday and ran into The Hartford Stage http://www.hartfordstage.org/blog/index.php. While I was on their website, I noticed that they have a Blog and got really excited. I figured, hey! This should be really dramatic and really fun to read! Much to my disappointment, it was like reading the minutes from their last meeting. It was filled with promotion and I didn't really pick up much "personality," which is something we discussed in class as being very important. The voice that was used was as standard as the one used for the movie premiers in the theaters. The good part about the blog was that it was very informative. It let me know what was coming up and what I had to look forward to. It also included a small blurb about how I can help out "a good cause," but the problem with that was it didn't let me know what that cause was. What I found very interesting about their blog - and pretty cool - was that they have five different categories. I would think that would work towards people's advantage as the blog search does on search engines.

Something else that I liked was the appearance of the blog. The colors looked great and I love how they incorporated photo's of a production on the border. It looked very nice.

Overall, the blog was really nice. It was put together well, wasn't too long or too short in text, and it's appearance was clean. However, I felt as though I was stuck inside an ongoing advertisement which was a bit of a turn-off.