Zirana City Blog

Former San Mateo Times Managing Editor Michelle Carter has been named to the same position for Zirana.com.
The announcement was made by Sanjiv Sahay, Zirana CEO, from the company’s headquarters at 1340 S. De Anza Blvd., Suite 104, San Jose. He added “Michelle brings a lot of relevant experience to Zirana, as it grows into a digital media platform covering local communities across the globe.” The company was founded recently and now has two hundred and forty community news sites up and running. Zirana expects to cover over a thousand communities by the end of this year.
Carter left The Times in 1995 to accept a grant from the United States Information Agency to work with newspaper editors in Russia for a year. She continued work with newspapers in emerging democracies of the former Soviet Union and former Soviet bloc countries until 2002 when she began teaching journalism and communication at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. She is retiring as a core faculty member and adviser to The Argonaut, the student newspaper, this spring.
Carter and her husband, Mike Venturino, live in Belmont.

Welcome to the Zirana City Blog. As you are aware, Zirana presents local News and Information for the various cities it covers. There is special emphasis on school related content. Our goal is to be a one stop shop for all local information. Currently we are providing local Events, Crime News including Police Blotter and Real Estate information including data on Homes Sold, Foreclosures and analysis of local real estate trends. You will also find a lot of school related content like listing of all local schools, API scores for each school, comparison of various schools in the same town, nformation about Pre Schools and After School Activities. There is also information including videos from current college students about their colleges and what they did in High School to get admission to the college of their choice and why they chose that college. On Zirana, you will also find information about local Apartments, Realtors, Restaurants, Salons, Doctors and Dentists etc. There are Forums for you to express your opinion, Classifieds for you to post your notices about items for sales, jobs and activities of interest, Groups for you to join to interact with your neighbors etc.

in this blog we will present some interesting content from the various city websites on Zirana along with our comments on various issues concerning our users. Please feel free to respond to these blog posts with your comments as well as your opinions on various matters.