Current Mood:
Alarmed
I’m supposed to be building a website for the local community. This is due to my being involved in a couple of projects going on and it making sense to have a site where we can put announcements and such like. The problem is that while I have no objections to getting it all online, hosting it, building it, maintaining it, etc, I’m in one of those moods where I keep staring at the screen and just don’t know where to start! I don’t think the site needs to have a forum attached – at least not at this time. It’s going to be mainly for news, interesting items relating to the area, etc.announcements for the youthclubs and so on. My initial thought is to go with a wordpress blog… but I’m wondering if I’d be better with a CMS. Anyone with any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated hearing them!
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Posted on 9 February '10 by Lisa, under Everyday Life, Local. 3 Comments.
Current Mood:
Mischievous
For the last six years (on and off) I’ve been a staff member of a rather large Community Administrators forum. On 5th January I stepped downrom my position there. The reasons are many, but I do not wish to bash the site in any way, so will refrain from commenting on them.
After I resigned I received a lot of messages all saying the same thing – that i should open a Community Administration site of my own, that I could bring a decent community together. I don’t really think I have that much sway over the forum communities personally, and I’ve never raelly wanted to go up in competition aginst the existing Community Administration sites so had never considered doing such a thing before. I don’t know, maybe it was just the right time, maybe these people’s comments caught me in the right mindset. But, whatever it was, I finally took that step and agreed that yes I would build a Community Administrators Resource/Discussion forum and so Admin Extra was born.
I brought a team together on 6th Jan and we uploaded a vBulletin forum to our new account and set to work. By Saturday the 9th we had our forum structure and skin in place, and started to focus on content and by Sunday 10th January 2010 we were ready to take the site live. Within a few hours, our link had been shared and things just seemed to gather momentum.
Today is the 2nd February 2010, we’ve been open just over 3 weeks and have passed the 7,000 post mark. Our activity and content is outstanding for such a new site. We have interviews from some of the wellknown names of the Community world, amazing graphic downloads available free to all our members, help and support with running communities and a fantastic memberbase and staff team who have really gelled in our short time online.
So I’d like to invite all of those who read my blog (yes, we have a section solely about blogging and social networks too!) to come and join us at Admin Extra.
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Posted on 2 February '10 by Lisa, under Communities, Featured, Internet. 1 Comment.
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