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Amigram? What's an Amigram?
Amigram is a made up word - ami in French means friend and gram is a Greek derivative meaning something written. So amigram is something written to a friend. And Amigram.com was created to help us all more easily connect or re-connect with family and friends through happy announcements. And it's all free.
An announcement, such as an engagement, wedding, anniversary, new pet, Johnny's first home run, Aunt Nat's 80th birthday, or any special event is often more than the announcement itself, it's an opportunity to tell others they are important to us. And for those receiving the announcement, it’s an opportunity to reciprocate– even if it's just to say "congratulations" or "way to go."
A generation ago it was easy to share and stay in touch with who got engaged, married, had a baby, was promoted, started a new business or whatever because we had our hometown newspaper. Now a days, not only have many of us moved away from our hometown, we've seen a lot of our hometown papers disappear so we can't even keep up to date from afar.
Today, when we have good news to share, we sometimes tell a few people and hope the grapevine is thriving, send an email, Tweet it, put it on our Facebook page, pay for a newspaper listing, or create a website and then send a link. Each of these work to a point but not everyone we want to touch base with is on Facebook or Twitter, gets the local paper, or wants to navigate a website. And an email doesn't always do justice to our message and photos.
So we started Amigram.com to help us better connect and as it grows, see all the happy announcements in your hometown.The entire site is free. It’s free to you because it’s being paid for by advertisers. So enjoy the site and create as many Amigrams as you like – your family and friends, and people back in your hometown - you will be glad you did.
Cheers,
Pat Oaklief
Amigram, LTD
47 West Division Street
Suite 419
Chicago, IL 60610
312-348-7208
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