... and so does the community.
Over the weekend Keri Mitchell and I attended a Blog/New Media Expo
in Las Vegas. I am sure we will sporadically share our newfound wisdom
with you over future days and weeks, but for now I’d like to touch on
one important thing I derived from the experience:
I learned that in order to have an outstanding neighborhood blog,
you have to have outstanding folks out in the neighborhood writing
regular, interesting, super-local posts. Advocate has a stellar
editorial staff, if I do say so myself. But we are but a very few
people putting out five neighborhood magazines every month, plus the
occasional special addition. While we want to be all over the place covering news for Back Talk, we can’t be more than one place at a time — or should I say we haven’t figured out how to yet.
That brings me back to my aforementioned assessment — we need the citizen journalists, such as Back Talk contributor Norman Alston, who help us
keep our finger on the pulse of Lakewood and do a great job of
writing about it.
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