Your Community Has a Story
Meet the neighbors, discover local stories, and find the news and activities that make Island County home. Your community’s story belongs here—and so does yours.
Stop Renting Your Reach
Give your business a home of its own. Build your Channel, connect with followers, and share through cooperating local organizations to reach more of your community.
Never Miss What's Happening
Find your next reason to get out and explore. Discover local events, live entertainment, art, festivals, and activities—then come back to see what’s happening next.
Better Together
Local connections help good stories travel. When businesses and community organizations share one another’s stories, they introduce new audiences to local people, places, and possibilities.
Explore What County Guide Can Do
Discover your community, share your story, and build local connections.
- Your own Channel: Give your business or organization a home for its stories and updates.
- Local stories and news: Discover the people, places, and ideas shaping Island County.
- Events and activities: Find local entertainment, art, festivals, and things to do.
- Followers and connections: Follow local Channels and stay connected with businesses and organizations you care about.
- Community sharing: Help stories reach new audiences through cooperating businesses and organizations.
- Everyday local discovery: Come back for fresh updates, local discoveries, and more ways to take part in your community.
Community
Create and share with your community. • Write articles and share local stories • Publish news and timely updates • Create events and activity posts • Share listings and local discoveries • Add photos, video, and audio • Include helpful links and rich text • Post to your parent network
Channel
Everything in Community, plus: • Your own branded channel • Bring your stories, updates, events, and listings together • Organize and showcase your content • Manage what appears on your channel • Build connections with cooperating local organizations • Share content through approved local connections • Share across other regional channels through approved connections • Reach new audiences beyond your immediate community • ✧ AI integration
Network
Everything in Channel, plus: • Manage multiple channels • Connect and manage contributing networks • Manage network members • Assign team roles and permissions • Review incoming content across your network • Coordinate publishing across your community • Share templates across your network • Manage plans and allowances for contributing networks • ✧ AI integration
Website Add-on
Expand an eligible Channel into a full website. • Use your own domain • Create home, about, contact, and other website pages • Build flexible layouts with sections and columns • Showcase photo galleries, video, and embeds • Add buttons, cards, and automatic content feeds • Collect enquiries with contact forms • Customize fonts, colors, menus, and footer