Franklin Township ONLINE News is a privately owned, for-profit corporation located in Franklin Township , Marion County, Indiana. The business was founded in the Year 2004, and its primary mission is to provide free information, news, entertainment, opinion, pictures, and paid-for advertising messages via the Internet to residents and friends of Franklin Township . Franklin Township ONLINE News offers no printed version of its contents, nor is it restricted by obligatory frequency updates . Franklin Township ONLINE News encourages that your participation as a visitor to FTONEWS.com becomes a regular part of your daily lives. Franklin Township is your special place of residence and/or interest; Franklin Township ONLINE News is here to serve you, and wants to be a special part of your daily routine.
The mission of FTONEWS.com is to represent the heartbeat, the vein, the artery of the Franklin Township Community. In providing the pulse - a rather pulsating one at that - of this most affluent Marion County township, FTONEWS.com will inform, entertain, challenge, and interact with its residents and friends, ... including businesses that recognize and appreciate the consumer-spending capabilities of the ever-growing Franklin Township populace.
The time is right for FTONEWS.com to become a regular staple in the lives of Franklin Township residents, especially at a time when traditional media (newspapers and network television, in particular) are documented to be declining in readership and viewer growth. There is a need for a qualified source that is dedicated to heightening "communication channels within the local township."
A recent Online Publishers Association study is encouraging for endeavors like FTONEWS.com , announcing that frequent visitors to media web sites readily exhibit strong emotional bonds to these sites. Specifically, 72 percent enjoy the web site, 71 percent trust the web site, 69 percent look forward to visiting the web site, 56 per cent rely on the web site, and 47 percent miss the web site when they can't access it. Further, the study also found that use of local media web sites is becoming habitual.
In addition, advertisers are catching on to the growing popularity of news-based community web sites, knowing that they can use the online medium to extend the reach of their own campaigns among important segments of the population whom are known to be spending increasingly less time with other media. In fact, nearly half of the nation's biggest advertisers, hit by hefty price increases by TV networks the past several years, may move money away from TV in general and networks in particular. More and more of these major advertisers are looking more and more toward the Internet as a means to communicate their messages.
Yes, the Internet is generally on the upswing at this time. More and more people are "clicking in" and more and more advertisers are interested in this trend. For Franklin Township residents, the launching of Franklin Township ONLINE NEWS is designed to be an extension of this trend. What a great avenue -access for anyone to a totally free news and community-dedicated gathering post through the possibilities presented by the world wide web. Welcome to the Franklin Township corner of the Internet!
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FTONEWS.com heads into fourth year
 What began as a primary effort to provide an outlet for needed information for residents and friends of Franklin Township is heading into its fourth year as one of the most pioneering and innovative online-only newspaper endeavors in the country.
FTONEWS.com celebrated its third anniversary on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 , coming on the heels of a record-setting month of March for online traffic choosing to peruse more than 384,000 screens of content within this ever-growing news site.
While patterned somewhat after several successful online newspapers in various parts of the United States , FTONEWS.com has quickly materialized into the most comprehensive online-only newspaper presentation in Indiana . And when measured against similar endeavors nationwide, Franklin Township 's free-access version represents one of the leading online-only newspapers anywhere.
FTONEWS.com was launched without much fanfare during the first week of April in 2004, with but only a few people aware of the local founder's concept for producing bona fide news, entertainment and feature stories pertaining to happenings within Franklin Township .
The concept was rather simple - provide a community newspaper for a highly affluent township that, for the most part, ranks above the curve in acceptance and use of modern technology. The product - offering information to Franklin Township residents - was needed and long overdue. The delivery choice - online-only - was a perfect match. Its time had come!
What has developed within the short span of 36 months reflects far more in the scope of presentation than what was ever expected in such a short period of time. And while still a somewhat fledgling business operation, the encouraging inroads that thus far portray only a modest beginning can only multiple many times over.
The next 36 months can only continue to expand on a venture supported by dedicated private investors - all residents of Franklin Township - and more than four dozen area businesses that already have elected to participate in the FTONEWS.com's "Community Partner Program," a popular marketing centerpiece that combines advertising opportunities with scholarship initiative.
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