Whoa, hoss

Time to slow down; we got a lot of work to do.

Two main initiatives over the next two months: develop some sort of communication strategy and initiate professional and informal readership surveys.

Our project is tasked with filling the voids in local information so we need to discover those voids.

So before we start talking about what we are going to do, we need to get a handle on some basic information.

That's task numero uno.

Gwen Ifill recap

Kristin Taylor of the Knight Foundation has been diligently blogging and recording video from this weeks conference. 

Check out her vid of Gwen Ifill's conference-opening remarks

One day down, a million to go

Entering Day 2 at the Knight Foundation seminar in Miami, my thoughts are in Wisconsin Rapids.

Yesterday was a blur. Knight is funding 21 community foundations (including Wisconsin Rapids) across the country each with a task of helping citizens lead more informed lives (although the projects have a different scope). 

How are they going to do it?

How are we going to do it?

After the first day, I don't know. But I know it needs to be done.

News is important to a democracy, without a doubt. But the importance of local news to a community has never been greater.

Without getting all teary-eyed and philosophical, I hope when we look up a year or 18 months from now, people are better informed with what can affect their lives. And their lives are better for it.