Comments on: Two angles on “local” as a strategy http://joemichaud.com/2008/09/23/two-angles-on-%e2%80%9clocal%e2%80%9d-as-a-strategy/ Local Interactive Strategies Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TR @ WSB http://joemichaud.com/2008/09/23/two-angles-on-%e2%80%9clocal%e2%80%9d-as-a-strategy/#comment-92 TR @ WSB Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:31:44 +0000 http://joemichaud.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-92 Thanks for mentioning us. There are certainly at least a few other sites around the country having the kind of success we are - we bow down and hail Baristanet in New Jersey, for example (and actually met the fabulous Ms. Galant long before our site's start three years ago - at which time we had no idea it would become what it has become) - but it also surprises and amuses me sometimes that indeed we are somewhat below the radar. (Yesterday by the way was something resembling the news day to end all news days and we set a new traffic record.) But what you mention in the Howard Owens quote is vital: This isn't just about us covering the neighborhood news, though we do that fervently and frenetically, 7 days a week. This is about our community coming to a virtual gathering place to talk - about everything from the HUGE wave of development that is sweeping our peninsula, to whether a certain grocery chain is coming to town, and way beyond, big and small. So when you get into this space, remember the DISCUSSION as well as NEWS ... our positioning statement is that of "24/7 news, information, discussion" for our area. That discussion happens both in comments on the news stories we cover, and in forum topics that community members initiate, and often that's where the "crowdsourcing" of breaking news happens, too. Thanks for mentioning us. There are certainly at least a few other sites around the country having the kind of success we are – we bow down and hail Baristanet in New Jersey, for example (and actually met the fabulous Ms. Galant long before our site’s start three years ago – at which time we had no idea it would become what it has become) – but it also surprises and amuses me sometimes that indeed we are somewhat below the radar. (Yesterday by the way was something resembling the news day to end all news days and we set a new traffic record.)

But what you mention in the Howard Owens quote is vital: This isn’t just about us covering the neighborhood news, though we do that fervently and frenetically, 7 days a week. This is about our community coming to a virtual gathering place to talk – about everything from the HUGE wave of development that is sweeping our peninsula, to whether a certain grocery chain is coming to town, and way beyond, big and small. So when you get into this space, remember the DISCUSSION as well as NEWS … our positioning statement is that of “24/7 news, information, discussion” for our area. That discussion happens both in comments on the news stories we cover, and in forum topics that community members initiate, and often that’s where the “crowdsourcing” of breaking news happens, too.

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