The Image of Tacoma - A Roundtable (28. March 2006, 08:16 by Derek Young) ~ Things Are Getting Exciting
Last night I did something for the first time – something a little different. What was it? I met with some readers of Exit133. It was a little strange. After being online for many years and launching this site in its current form early last year, I have never purposefully met with readers of my sites.
The goal of the evening was to discuss the state of Tacoma’s online presence. Kevin from kevinfreitas.net, his wife, a few Exit133 commenters, and a friend all met at Mandolin Cafe on South 12th Street. The questions we wanted to answer were: What can we do as a community to help new voices come online? What’s out there now? What’s coming next? What can we do as the ‘publishers’ of small websites to improve the image of Tacoma? We talked for about two hours and left with some pretty solid ideas.
Now I turn to you. What keeps you from being online now? Do you want a site of your own? Maybe you don’t. Would you like to be part of a larger site that has a ‘community’ of contributors? Are you unsure how to start?
On a separate note – get ready for some fun. We plan on getting Tacoma outside this Spring and Summer. It’s time to build a new community. More to come…
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I think one reason more folks don’t have their own site is there is a certain level of confidence you need to be the one to post the articles. It’s much easier to react to someone elses starting point than create your own. Case in point as I sit here answering your query while ignoring my own site.
1 | Posted by Dave | Mar 29, 12:29 AM
I know the feeling it is easier to respond than to spring a wealth of new thoughts an ideas. One idea i/we had as perhaps a way to drive some less formal and or organic discussion is an old-school web-forum, or web board kind of set-up. I volunteered the tacomaness forum (http://forum.tacomaness.com) as an idea and test ground. It could be something that is a little more familiar to some folks and as far as I know there’s really no lively Tacoma related forum around.
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