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Mon. March 27, 2006
Getting Tacoma together
Sarah and I joined some other fellow Tacoma bloggers tonight for a brainstorming session at a local coffee shop. Our goal was to meet and figure out what we can do to give Tacoma more of a voice on the web and to get people out to enjoy this city for what is has to offer. With so many other group and community websites getting together with their common interests in-mind we thought it was time to do the same. We met Derek(of Exit133), James (of Tacomaness), and Jamie and Melissa to mull over the possibilities. We left with some reasonable and some lofty goals but all agreed that we could continue to meet and move forward with some of our ideas. My leaning is toward a community website that allows folks to read and post information, thoughts, and photos while allowing people that already have a web presence to contribute via feeds from their existing website. Even if everyone at our meet up tonight pooled feeds from their current sites we would have a strong presence that would start the process of being a place for Tacomans to meet and get informed about this great place in which we live.
Feel free (whether Tacoma resident or not) to toss your comments in the ring here. Would you use a community-based website? Would you go there for news or more fun stuff like events, photos or conversation? Would you want to contribute by signing up to create your own website? What would it take to make you want to be a part of something like this? I/we appreciate your feedback and look forward to getting this ball rolling.
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3/28/2006 @ 9:44pm
I'd love to see a Tacoma community site; I've lived in Oly for almost 4 years now, but I still have a soft spot for Tacoma.
by Elaine
3/29/2006 @ 12:08am
I think you summed it up nicely; we just need to identify what aspects/content would be meaningful to a broad group and find those willing to put in the time to keep things reasonably fresh.
SO this is interesting, Elaine - I grew up in Oly., and ended up moving to Tacoma did you take my spot in Olympia?? Its hard to spend too my time down there.. maybe its proximity to family and the awkward feeling of running into people from high-school.
by James
4/2/2006 @ 6:43pm
The artists of Tacoma were working on just such a thing. Did you know about it? Are you a TacomaArt listserv member?
by Angela Jossy
4/2/2006 @ 8:59pm
Angela: I used to be but dropped the address it was being sent to. Is that site one focused mainly on the arts and events in the area or more? Once we get a little something started it might be cool to compare notes sometime...
by KevinFreitas