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Because You Save Clicks, Clicks Count on CM

SITE NEWS. Philosophy of CM: Clicking on CM. Another place where "Less is More" pays off, with more information a click away than others. It's a philosophy that's paying off as more people than ever now know. Growth in clicks has been huge since we migrated to a more powerful server. We're hoping that growth continues as those who know how to Click for More tell others, in 2013, the year of the tablet, phablet and cell phone, a sea change in communications, as the world rushes to a new way of reading.

At CM, our goal is to make every Click Count. It's not a unique notion, but it's the opposite policy of many sites.

This Sunday could we suggest a few extra minutes curled up with your Kindle, Samsung Notepad II telephone, iPad, Surface, laptop, or other home computer - and you can even watch the Super Bowl streaming online with most of these - taking a few extra minutes to Click Around a few times to see what all is in our archives. We haven't kept count, but best guesstimate is that there are now over 100,000 entries on the cite.




Primarily, people are using CM today as a time saver, a way to participate more, a way to quickly know what's going on in our world, with a few 3 minute scans throughout the day.

That's great, but we hope everyone knows that the site is lived with with wonderful stories, photo(s), history, to curl up with and read on Sundays the way we used to read the Sunday Courier or the Sunday New York Times - when we could get them. Today, we carry around whole libraries on pocket phones. And CM is a big part of that library. At CM our goal is to Save You Clicks so that every Click Counts. It's not easy, and we haven't perfected it, but it's a goal. If you haven't done so, today might be a good day to try clicking on the menu items, the topics, the obituaries, the today link, the Veteran's List link, and especially, study a valuable tool for researchers, CM as a Daily Newspaper. By resetting the dates there, one can see what was happening on any given day over the past 17 years, as it was observed on CM.

If you haven't tried it before,
  • Click on Headlines to see entire stories plus linked photos. (Surprisingly one of our most popular feature length columnists was recently told, "really like your stories on ColumbiaMagazine.com, but why are they so short." the reader didn't realize that a RotoMagazine length feature was a Headline Click ahead.
  • Click on ads which interest you Quite often they tell so much more. The ad may take you to the advertiser's home page. (If it doesn't link, you'll know when it doesn't advance. For instance, Clicking on the "AIM" ad for Lindsey Wilson College takes the reader to "Adults in Motion." Clicking on Campbellsville University ad takes one to that school's landing page. And clicking on "Edward D. Jones" let's you learn more about Columbia's EDJ..
There are many more places where Clicking Counts, these are just two of the ways that Clicking More pays off. Of course we have a selfish motive The clicks make our site work for the advertisers. And we are able to keep the site online only through their patronage and support - but we only get repeat business if it works for them. -EW


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