Knoxified Friday Question: To Forum or Not to Forum?

4Apr2008 Filed under: KFQ, Questions Author: CP

During our January review we mentioned that our original intent for Knoxify was to serve as a message board/forum for Knoxville residents to post about their day-to-day lives. Since our readership has grown to over 4,600 people we’ve been questioning bringing back the forum idea.

Would you like to see the Knoxify guys develop a Knoxville-centric forum?

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7 Responses to “Knoxified Friday Question: To Forum or Not to Forum?”

KB
April 4th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

I do not know, guys. The efforts that I have seen at open forums remind me of the “community news” efforts of recent times. Neither has seemed too successful. I have participated in forums related to news on stocks and related to business improvement and transformation. The time to sort through the noise has always turned me off.

Blogs like this strike me as non-open forums or directed forums and seem more successful, as you have a director framing discussion. Would be willing to try, though.
KB
April 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Sorry, meant to add to the previous post. A good blog entry from Jack Lail (www.jacklail.com) on community news effort and some of its failures.

http://www.jacklail.com/blog/archives/2008/03/magic-formula-for-citizen-jour.html

I wanted to give proper credit.….…
CP
April 4th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

Thanks for the candid feedback KB. Much appreciated. We’ll mull it over some more.
Victor Agreda Jr
April 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am

Please lord, no.
CP
April 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Now that’s candid Victor. For that I say thank you!
CK
April 17th, 2008 at 10:34 am

Isn’t that what Instaknox was supposed to be? Or are you meaning something else by “forum”?
CP
April 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

CK, more of a message board with various forums contained in it. Much like what the Metro Pulse is doing now.

http://www.metropulse-forums.com/