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RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, 2008

CONTACT:

S. Thomson, President SacramentoGrapevine

P.O. Box 1496

Roseville, California 95678

916-215-1736

support@SacramentoGrapevine.com

GRAPEVINE COMMUNITIES USE

NATIONAL FEATURES ON LOCAL WEBSITES

Network of community Internet sites provide content similar to
MySpace, Youtube, Craigslist, Facebook

NATIONWIDE ? The Grapevine Communities, a group of 200
community-based social media Websites across the country, is
connecting people to their communities with local content by using
features similar to MySpace, Craigslist, Youtube and Facebook.

Thousands of members in small towns and large cities throughout the
nation are discovering the power of information and entertainment in
community Websites such as www.SacramentoGrapevine.com,
www.CapecodGrapevine.com, www.SeattleGrapevine.com,
www.HartfordGrapevine.com, and www.LafayetteGrapevine.com.

?Someone else suggested this site, and I?m glad they did,? wrote
TheRealMacoy, a member at LafayetteGrapevine.com in a public message
to another member. ?It looks like I will be enjoying it a lot. ? So
much to do on here.?

At each Grapevine Community Website, members can find hundreds of
interactive things to do, such as:

* Easily post their own blog for the world to read and comment on

* Find forums on local topics of interest to discuss and debate in
a tempered manner

* Print coupons from local grocery stores, or create and post their
own coupons for their own business

* Find a needed business in the local Business Directory, or list
their business in the Business Directory so people can easily find
information about their product or service.

* Spend hours playing 700 games in the arcade

* Find local news from local media, along with national, world,
business, sports, entertainment, science and technology and offbeat news

* Sell or buy items in the local classifieds, post help wanted ads
and list Real Estate for sale.

* Find things to do in the local calendar of events or post their
own events for the public to see

* List local Church and School information, or create Groups to
share information

* Track stocks, find local movie times, weather, local gas prices,
horoscopes and 30 financial calculators

* Set up their own Webpage to be a MySpace-like page and put a
bunch of cool stuff on it like videos, photos, music, blogs,
background screen shots and more. Members can invite friends within
their Grapevine community to join them on their MySpace-like Webpage

* Set up banner advertising to market their business at discounted
rates for local companies

* Listen to the Grapevine radio or create their own music playlist
to play in the background

* And much more

In short, the Grapevine Communities were put together so people
could share their interest with those around them, within the
community where they live.

The Grapevine sites are truly community oriented, filled with local
information and entertainment. They are not corporate sites filled
with offers to purchase services or products and bothersome bogus
links. They are in fact, as an example of the community spirit of
Grapevine Websites, becoming the place to go to find information about
local schools and churches, and to list and find Real Estate during
these hard economic times.

MySpace, Craigslist, Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook and other
networking sites are dominating the marketplace on a global scale with
social, business and entertainment networking sites. But what they
don?t do is target individual communities with all of the combined
features of their sites. The Grapevine Communities combine similar
features of these national sites into local Websites.

The reward for each owner of a Grapevine Community Website is
advertising revenues from local business owners in each community.

The benefit for Grapevine members are Reward Points. Quickly,
members earn points just by posting to the sites. The points can be
exchanged for $10, $100 and $250 Gift Cards to Best Buy, Home Depot,

Wal-Mart and Staples. There?s no catch. It's our way of saying
thanks for using the Grapevine Community Websites. In other words, it
pays to use the Grapevine Community Websites.

The goal is simple.

Enjoy www.IndianapolisGrapevine.com,
www.ColoradoSpringsGrapevine.com, www.RochesterGrapevine.com,
www.NashvilleGrapevine.com or any of the other 200 community sites
and tell others about it so communities can be brought together to
share in their visions, discuss their challenges, grow their
businesses, stay informed and be entertained.

ABOUT THE GRAPEVINE COMMUNITIES

The Grapevine Communities were launched in January 2008 by
Jared Leisek of Oregon after he and his wife Kristin could not find
any information online about things to do in their community.

Starting at zero and rapidly growing to more than 200 sites
nationwide as of October 2008, the goal is to grow to 1500 sites in
the next 3-5 years. Each Grapevine Community Website is independently
owned and operated. Website hosting, technical support and business
development are provided to each owner.

All owners use the online name ?Grapevine? on their sites.
Contact any owner for additional information by clicking on their
image on their Website and using the Send A Message feature.
Approximately 4,500 unique visitors go to the Grapevine Community
Websites everyday. There are approximately 164,000 page views
everyday, according to Google Analytics reports from individual
Grapevine Websites.

Go to www.grapevinecommunities.com for a U.S. map of towns
and cities with Grapevine Websites.

Grapevine Community Websites with independent owners:

www.AppletonGrapevine.com, www.BatonRougeGrapevine.com,
www.BloomingtonGrapevine.com, www.BoiseGrapevine.com,
www.CapecodGrapevine.com, www.CharlestonGrapevine.com,
www.CharlotteGrapevine.com, www.ChicagoGrapevine.com,
www.ClevelandGrapevine.com, www.ColumbusGrapevine.com,
www.ColoradoSpringsGrapevine.com, www.DenverGrapevine.com,
www.DetroitGrapevine.com, www.HarrisburgGrapevine.com,
www.HartfordGrapevine.com, www.HuntsvilleGrapevine.com,
www.IndianapolisGrapevine.com, www.LafayetteGrapevine.com,
www.ManchesterGrapevine.com, www.MyTwinCitiesGrapevine.com,
www.MyVegasGrapevine.com, www.NashvilleGrapevine.com,
www.NewHavenGrapevine.com, www.NolaGrapevine.com,
www.PittsburghGrapevine.com, www.RichmondHillGrapevine.com,
www.RochesterGrapevine.com, www.SacramentoGrapevine.com,
www.SalemGrapevine.com, www.SantaFeGrapevine.com,
www.SavannahGrapevine.com, www.SeattleGrapevine.com,
www.ShoalsGrapevine.com, www.SoCoastGrapevine.com,
www.SpokaneGrapevine.com, www.SyracuseGrapevine.com,
www.VisaliaGrapevine.com, www.WashingtonDCGrapevine.com,
www.WesternMontanaGrapevine.com, www.YakimaGrapevine.com

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Posted Friday Oct 17