From the porch I’m standing on, Knoxville appears to be sprouting in the right direction. Especially in the venture and entrepreneur sector.

For those in this type of market, are you working from home or maybe renting a small office? Where do you meet with your clients? Coffee shops? Restaurants?

The reason I ask is because I feel there’s an empty void in Knoxville. A void that needs to be filled with a creative workspace. Examples of creative spaces here, here and here.

In your opinion, is Knoxville in need of a creative workspace like the examples above?

A mid-evening stroll led my wife and I to Coastal Connections, a local seafood market specializing in Gulf Coast shrimp, fish, crawfish and oysters.

We were greeted by Brian, one of the operating partners, who let us sample the cajun fare; samples only since we were walking without cash or credit. The two small cups of seafood gumbo and crawfish etouffee left us hungry for more. All of their selections were fresh and ready to take home. Coastal Connections visit the Alabama and Florida coastline every week to bring home never-frozen fresh seafood.

But don’t take my word for it. Brian and the boys also wholesale to local favorites like Chesapeake’s and Calhoun’s.

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After multiple “tweets” by Whodini, a large group of Knoxville’s Twitter community met for lunch at Lakeside Tavern. Here’s a quick round-up of the coverage.

• Whodini’s flickr set
• mwender’s blog coverage
• tohare’s flickr image and blog post

Update: The official roster from the tweet-up. If I missed someone leave a comment.

1. cpknoxify
2. patrickbeeson
3. Rootclip / luchauer
4. Whodini
5. gavinbaker
6. djuggler
7. LissaKay
8. lasthome
9. tohare
10. mwender
11. z11
12. cmm1869

Picture courtesy of Michael Wender

Dane Baker, Publisher of the Knoxville Voice, dropped us a line alerting the Knoxify guys that KnoxVoice.com was ready and willing. To serve up “Knoxville’s Only Independent Alternative” voice that is.

The new site boasts tons of good stories as well as a new Knoxville-centric job section, KnoxJobsLive. It’s worth a look.

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?

Photography by igorms