Main Street Now
Big, Bold, and Better Than Ever!
Say good-bye to Main Street News and hello to Main Street Now. The journal of the National Trust Main Street Center has a bold, new look, with a fresh layout and format – now expanded from a 16-page monthly to a 32-page bi-monthly magazine. More importantly, the Center's flagship publication has a new role: to focus on emerging best practices and trends in the field. And finally, to reflect that new direction, the publication has a new name: Main Street NOW.
At the National Trust Main Street Center, we now look at communication as a multi-channel process that we coordinate through an integrated "editorial process" that links both traditional and electronic outreach and information. One of the most dramatic shifts in the past few years has been in the area of electronic communications, with social media and other electronic formats – e-mail, Facebook, Google directories, webinars – leading the way and enabling local organizations to recruit volunteers, raise money, promote events, connect leaders, and keep Main Street in the public eye.
Using these new channels as well as traditional print media, we are able to reach our network on an annual, bi-monthly, weekly, and daily basis. Here at the National Trust Main Street Center, we are excited about the coming year and decade, and are committed to helping you preserve and revitalize your communities and your historic commercial districts, using every communications channel possible to share what is new on Main Street now.
Main Street Now is a benefit of National Main Street Network membership. To learn more about member benefits and join the Main Street Network, click here.
To learn more about our series of Innovation Lab webinars, click here.
