Last year, I was thinking that Facebook was great, but it was too big for any one town. The issues of one locality get lost in the general “background noise” of millions of people talking.
I like Facebook. I have Facebook friends all over the world. But my sister in Australia just isn’t interested in the problems of the town that I live in, just as I am not really interested in the problems of the town where she lives. The same with my relatives in Canada. Then when you add in different local cultures, council and national laws, and the immediacy of my problems in my town, East Grinstead, get swamped!
So I was pondering on this and realised that we at WebDesigns Ltd could make a whole web site just for our town.
So we did just exactly that. We called it VillageCow, mainly because we couldn’t stand the idea of a bland name like “townvoice”, or “localchat” or whatever.
I think it’s a nice idea. I am hoping that local people, talking about local issues, can reach better solutions, or at the very least get better agreement on solutions! I figure that it has to be better than just reading about what solutions other (outsiders) have decided.