May 5 discussion notes and assignments

The site is shaping up wonderfully. We’ve got nine biz profiles posted with images.

Evan is working on the banner photo.

Andrea is completing the About page. Where should we shoot our group shot?

Editing team will be posting additional stories and images.

Interactive team is contacting the Register-Mail and connecting to Facebook and other sites.

For next week:
Customer focus
Interview enough individuals to provide three customer profiles about downtown.
File 100 to 300 word stories on each.

Downtown: Klayr
Lake Storey: Andrea
Knox: Andrew
Sandburg: Chris
Hy Vee: Matt
Mall: Evan

Questions:
These are starting points. Take off from there.

First, make sure they’re from Galesburg area.
Last time you were downtown?
What other reasons for going downtown?
Favorite place now and historically?
Wish list?
Personal info: Occupation
Would you live downtown?
Story ideas?

And a new one: Query them about their online information habits. And suggest they visit downtownalive.

For our May 12 comment discussion:

Plunge into an active comment stream. Be prepared to discuss  your experiences.
Post comments that affirm, challenge, question, add new info to the discussion such as a link or relavent personal experience.

Our guest speaker will be Quad-City Times Quadsville Editor Melissa Coulter. Melisssa edits and organizes Quadsville.com, the QCTimes.com social networking site.
Learn something about Melissa online.

Story filing protocol
E-mail stories to Mark at mmridolfi@aol.com.
Mark will e-mail back with revisions.
Post as draft to DowntownAlive.
Editing team will post live to site.

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