Local Developer Evangelist Andrew Duthie put together Community Megaphone last year.

Since then, it's grown by leaps and bounds from a Mid-Atlantic regional site to a site with national reach.

The site's UI is simple and clean with an orange and gray colors scheme.

Simple is good, but I decided kick it up a notch by adding a Silverlight touch with the Community Megaphone Map.

The map consumes RSS feeds from the site and displays the same information with a bit more RIA splash.

It also was a lot of fun to build and see it come together from idea to execution.

I'm still working on the map to give it a little more polish, but it's functionally complete and a great way to browse for community events for folks who are more visually-inclined.

Over the course of the next week, I'll dissect the map and how I built it.