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you are never too old for story time
Published Aug 13, 2007Views: 57
RFP hit its one month anniversary on Wednesday. To celebrate, I wanted to share a few observations I’ve made over that time period and then try something a little different with this post. First, the observations:
- Although news sources are abundant and available in a mind-boggling number of formats, their is still a healthy demand for amateur local writers to publish and share their thoughts with fellow citizens (over 130 thousand blogs were created on Wordpress alone last month)
- Our readers are passionate and well-educated when it comes to our fair city
- Running a website can be an extremely gratifying experience, but also quite time-consuming (mostly because you’re always thinking how to improve it)
- Spreading the word to a few is easy, but after you’ve exhausted your personal email contact list it’s much harder to grow your reader-base
- The true measure of any post, website, or product for that matter is the value it provides to the consumer
Ok, enough with the deep thoughts. I’m traveling this weekend so I want to try something new for this post. In true 3rd grade style, I’ll start a story about Raleigh and leave it open-ended. After that, it’s up to our readers to decide where the story goes from there by writing your own comments and continuing the story for the next person. If you haven’t commented before, give it a shot. You don’t have to register or sign-up and you don’t even need to use your real name unless you want to.
So without further ado:
The most interesting day I’ve ever had in Raleigh began with… (continue the story)
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