What are you doing this weekend?

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Not sure what you’re up to this weekend?

As always, our friend Glen Gower at OttawaStart has put together a fabulous round-up for the weekend featuring suggestions from LTO contributors Gordon Dewis, Ruvini Godakandae, Josee from Frugal Fun Ottawa…and more!

The city’s offering everything from improv, to jazz performances to a great little craft sale.

Intrigued? Head on over to OttawaStart.

Are you heading to any of these events and want to share your story with us? We’re always looking for contributions! E-mail ltottawa@gmail.com.

 

Happy weekend!

It’s been a busy week for us, and the weekend is about to get even busier! Not sure what to do this weekend? Check out our friend Glen Gower’s  round-up:

Click here to head on over to OttawaStart's Weekely Event Round-Up

Whether you’re looking for something to do with the kids, a party to hit up Saturday night…or joining us at Oktoberfest (don’t miss it!), OttawaStart always has a fantastic community-based rundown of what’s up this weekend.

While we are out of town…

Since your hosts Jessey, Amy and Hilary are all out of town this weekend, we thought we’d throw it over to some of our favourite local bloggers for a little Ottawa-inspiration.

Check out what everyone has been up to this week:

• Brie at Kids in the Capital published a post about Dancing in the Street, a project from The School of Dance that has performers and musicians dancing in streets across Ottawa

• Erika Cuccaro blogged over at A Peek Inside the Fishbowl about four fabulous Lowertown walks for dogs (and the people that love them) 

• Glen Gower at OttawaStart published his weekly (awesome) event round-up

• Claire at foodiePrints wrote up a great snapshot of Brookstreet Hotel’s happy hour (yum)

• Trevor at Apartment 613 wrote about Ottawa garage rockers The Polymorphines, who are playing a show Saturday at Mavericks

• Laura K. at Mindful Merchant posted a wonderful wrap (great photos!) of her time at the Rideau Woodland Ramble near Merrickville

We’re so inspired by all the great local bloggers in this city, writing about what makes this city great. Who is your favourite Ottawa blogger?

Happy Canada Day Ottawa!

Happy 144th birthday Canada!

Happy Canada Day Ottawa!

From the Royal Couple’s visit to a huge collection of free concerts…there is tons to do. Even better, the sun is shining…It’s time to get out and enjoy our city!

Still not sure what to do today? Check out OttawaStart’s Canada Day 2011 guide.

OttawaStart’s Weekly Event Round-Up

There are so many fantastic blogs in the city that we turn to for the latest information on what’s up this weekend, but we’ve noticed that Glen Gower from OttawaStart has put a unique spin on what is otherwise is just a quick snapshot of info.

So not sure what to do this weekend?

Click here to read recommendations from some of the city’s top in-the-know folks: Andrea Tomkins, Eugene Haslam, Max Keeping, Oni the Haitian Sensation and Local Tourists Don Chow, Josee, Lydia Bociurkiw and Stuntman Stu.

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Local Tourist Ottawa featured on CBC Radio

91.5 FM in Ottawa

Wow – what a great week!

Yesterday morning, CBC Radio’s Rebecca Zandbergen welcomed me into the studio to talk a little bit about Local Tourist Ottawa.

I also had a chance to meet Dave Woodbridge, the creator of Outdoor Ottawa, and the three of us had a great 10 minute Q&A about our projects, the city’s thriving blogging community, as well as the power of social networking and an overall strong content marketing strategy.

It was a great chat!

Listen to Jessey's interview on CBC Radio

I’d just like to say a big thanks to Associate Producers Laura Osman and Jeanne Armstrong who reached out to Local Tourist Ottawa for this segment, as well as the folks at CBC who posted the audio clip up really quickly so everyone who missed the show could catch it later.

If you’d like to listen to the interview, please click here.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Local Tourist Ottawa named one of OttawaStart’s 26 essential blogs

On behalf our Local Tourists, we just wanted to send a quick shout out to Glen Gower of OttawaStart, who earlier this week named Local Tourist Ottawa one of the site’s 26 Essential Ottawa Blogs.

We’re certainly in great company! Ottawa has a thriving blogging community and we are so thrilled to be a part of it.

It has been just three months since we started this site, and we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response and the continuous stream of submissions.We’ve had Local Tourists write on a huge range of topics, including spots to get a great meal, museums, sports, art, theatre, and of course, more obscure topics such as the hunt for the best pho or Ottawa’s cupcake craze.

All in all, we’ve had a fantastic start.

We said from the beginning that this blog is about one thing: getting out, enjoying the best of this city, and sharing it with everyone else. LTOttawa is a compilation of the authors’ vow to participate more in our own community, as well as our readers’ contributions: as we all explore our city, we encourage everyone else to do the same.

We’re always excited to welcome guest bloggers – in fact, that is the whole point of this project. So, if you’d like to become a Local Tourist and contribute – please don’t hesitate to get in touch by using the form below. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Thanks again to OttawaStart, and we hope you all have a great weekend in Ottawa!

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