A News Source Does Not a Community Make

In starting WindyWire, our original intention was not to be a news aggregator and publisher but to be a site that amplified the connections that people make at great events like TechCocktail and ChicagoBeta and carried them throughout the rest of the year.

What we’re finding is that people did start talking, and people are a bit starved for a resource, but the talking they did was to us. Which is great for us but not for the growth of the community.

So what we’re doing now is figuring out the best way to create a better community and in the next few weeks we’ll be implementing some ideas that seem more inline with what we set out to do here.

The news will pause for a bit but hopefully what comes next does a lot more to expand the conversation and strengthen the community that we are building here in Chicago. Please, stay tuned to the Twitter stream for updates on the progress.

If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see here, please leave them in the comments.

Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Filed in Front Page. Comments Feed

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