Ever wonder what other peoples' desks look like? Well at The Sacramento Press most people have a Kings bobble head on their desk because my wife decided she no longer needed them in our shed.  

The Sacramento Press is giving away two ipod shuffles. Here are the rules of the game. 1. Read the article on the Crocker Art Museum's new wing by Suzanne Hurt posted here on sacramentopress.com 06/05/09. 2. Join the conversation by posting a comment on the article. 3. Invite your friends who are not yet community contributers to sign up for sacramentopress.com [free]. You can use email, phone calls, twitter, facebook or any other social network to ask people to sign up and to vote for you. The votes can be from any community contributer new or old but recruiting helps. One vote per community contributer. 4. Now ask them post a comment in the same article and use your sacramentopress.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting state park spending by $70 million and that  would require state parks that do not cover there own costs to be closed. 220 of 279 state parks would be closed if this proposal was put into place including Sutter’s Fort, the State Capitol Museum, the Leland Stanford Mansion, the California Indian Museum & Cultural Center, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and the Governor’s Mansion.      

 Final batch of photos from The Sacramento Press Tweetup.

 Photos taken at The Sacramento Press and Entreprini Tweetup.

Photos taken at The Sacramento Press and Entreprini Tweetup.  

My wife and I spent our Saturday afternoon cleaning out the shed in our back yard. During this process I discovered the sticker collection she got while attending concerts in Sacramento in the middle to late 1980's. I really enjoyed seeing the dated graphic design and trying to guess what music these stations might have played. KZAP  info FM 102  info KROY 97 wikipedia KPOP info More on Sacramento radio at http://www.playlistresearch.com/sacramentoradio.htm Do you remember any of these stations? What staions are missing that were huge during the 80's in Sacramento?    

We have a position at SacPress called a "shucker" that is part of our marketing department. There seems to be lots of questions about what it is they do so I would like to answer a few questions. Does the biker ride their own bike? No we customize the bicycle and trailer. We work closely with Signs By Tomorrow building custom wraps and marketing panels for each specific bike.  Do they get paid to ride the bike? Yes, but riding is only part of the job. Shuckers also interact with the public while answering questions and introducing people to SacPress. They also communicate with our editorial staff and report breaking news. What kind of trailer is that? It is a B.O.B trailer  How many mi

Today 2500-3000 people attended Earth Fest at the Sacramento Zoo in perfect Spring weather. " I think its activity creating activity, the animals are a huge draw but when you add all the live music and vendors its great for families" said Marisa Hicks Sacramento Zoo Marketing Coordinator. We gave out 750 reusable grocery bags, stickers and postcards to the public by spinning are gameshow inspired prize wheel. Our booth was visited by the Zoo's very own mascot, Gus the green tree frog, who with one spin walked away with a SacPress bag. It was great to meet so many enthusiastic kids, parents and visitors so excited about the special events put on at the Sacramento Zoo. The next first Satur

We will be updating this storyline at The Sacramento Zoo during Earth Fest today from 9:00-4:00. Sign up to become a community contributer and recieve a free reusabe SacPress grocery bag. You can also follow our day on Twitter @sacramentopress We started with a 5:00 AM wake up call and began staging the materials in the office to be loaded up and sent over to the Zoo. The Zoo is projecting about 5,000 people will attend, should be a great day to ride your bike or bring your family down to be part of this great event.  

This Second Saturday we set up shop at Bike Kitchen for the evening of Mochii yogurt, cold beers, good people and a super fun band, The Poplollys! We did a little meet and greet, gave away our reusable grocery bags, stickers and fantastic Mochii yogurt from our friend Marc Otero! Its is very interesting to hear people talk about there experience with the site just four months after launch. I met a few community contributers and a couple familiar faces from the local media world. With the weather teasing like its Spring people were out and about this Second Saturday and I hope you stopped by and said hello!  

We have broken a milestone on twitter.com, 1000 people following our every tweet! If you are wondering how that compares to others go to twitter.com and search for "Sacramento". We are the number one tweet and in the second position are the Sacramento Kings with nearly half the followers. This is not a quick article to boast our accomplishments, I write about how we market this company to the Sacramento community and twitter is a very important tool in our department. We use lots of social networking sites to reach out to our readers but as twitter grows its numbers its becoming a very unique tool. We use it to push content out, begin conversations, recruit readers and writers, hold conte

A great opportunity to save money on snowboard gearfrom 08/09 will be at De Veres bar (16th and L st) tomorrow. Come by around 1:00 and save lots of coin by purchasing next years gear at super low prices. Reps from 686, Official, and many other vendors blowing out there samples from the recent trade show season.    The first 25 people in the door get a free Official beanie! See you there!    

So I was riding my bike down 19th and as I passed the Safeway I noticed a spoke card on the rear wheel of a bike that was locked to a small tree. Seems pretty normal, but in my world its a bit more interesting. We created green stickers a little while back, and a few of the people who work at sacpress have them on their bikes like spoke cards, just for fun. So to see this extend outside of our small staff is so neat! The interesting part is I have know idea who this bike belonged to, a complete win in my world. As we use the "bicycle" more and more in our marketing its fun to see the cycling community embrace what it is we are doing.       

People always have signage at protests and rallies so we produced large signs to add to the mix. We thought it would be fun to try and drive content by giving people a reminder the conversation can continue online.  In the future we intend on bring these signs to locations as news is breaking. 

As my discussion about our marketing campaign continues I will also point out locals using the same tools and take a closer look at how and what they are achieving. Read a neat piece on mashable.com below http://mashable.com/2008/12/30/california-budget-crisis/   The Governor both use this tool to push out policy and breaking news about the administration. This tool was also used by President Elect Obama in his bid for the White House. twitter.com/schwarzenegger  

Many people have opinions about twitter.com and I am trying to find out if anyone on sacpress.com also uses twitter?  We use it as part of an online marketing campaign and to highlight workshops and events. I was honestly a little hesitant to use this tool but after 239 followers and many many direct messages I am really interested in this medium.   

So my favorite picture is the paint splatters that have created art by covering up another form of art. Funny how that works.  Ok so name this alley way. The first one to correctly name the cross streets gets a reusable sacpress.com grocery bag. 

I have always loved the alleyways in the central city and wanted to document the amazing gems that lived just a few steps of the beaten path. The original shot is from the main road and the following are some of the items I chose to shoot. I plan to repeat this process for many streets in the central city. After this first post I will not name the street and I would love to see if the community here on sacpress.com can figure out were each weeks post comes from.   Week one is 10th and Q