SCN: Portal or Destination

[Irene Mogol]

Well said Patrick.

Irene




On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, patrick wrote:

> The question is: Do we want to make SCN a portal or a destination, or
> a little of both.
> 
> If we want to make it a portal, then why are we wasting so much time
> and energy? Any moron can get a Geocities page and put a ton of local
> links on it and write a piece here and there.
> 
> Do we want to be morons? No, we are better than that. We want people
> to come to SCN for the community. We want SCN to come to SCN for SCN.
> 
> 
> We want them to keep them coming. We want them to keep coming back.
> We want their friends and family to come to SCN. And, of course, more
> people means more donations and more servers and more services. And
> more volunteers. And more chaos and arguing, of course - that's a
> given, a requirement :^)
> 
> And how do we keep them coming back? Why should they come back? Do
> they even have a reason to come to SCN itself, besides the wonderful
> "What's New" page (which is the best web page that SCN has)?
> 
> We need to add services and original content. We need to allow people
> to give feedback that does not go into a blackhole. We want people to
> post their complaints, their feelings, their thoughts on our site for
> them and everyone else to see. For lack of a better word, we need to
> allow people to have mail and interactivity.
> 
> If you are like me, you don't care too much about a site that has all
> the information going one way. That is why I want SCN to be the Yahoo
> of the Seattle community area.
> 
> Yahoo used to be just a portal to be in the beginning. Now I don't
> even think of it as a portal as it has become a destination for me.
> That is what I feel we need to become. 
> 
> I want to see all local sites in our shadow. When people think of
> Seattle's community online they should think "SCN."
> 
> I'm not asking for anyone's support. I'm sharing what vision I have.
> SCN has a lot of great things today and a lot of great volunteers.
> But we can build on it and make it much greater.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
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