alfuy wrote:
What I loved about the internet craze in the late 90s was every business utterly missing the point of it. They all treated it like another store front.
The internet showed me that people don't want to be passive consumers that want to be sold to, we just want to CONNECT with other people. That's what it's all about (well for me anyway)...well that & having access to staggering amounts of information at the click of a button.
I get pissed off with people who hire a website designer for their organisation and don't bother keeping it up to date. Basically the only up to date page of their website is their home page which just serves as a contacts page which most of their clients already know about. Try taking a basic website design course. Unless you have programming and/or graphic design skills it won't teach you to create a state of the art website but will show you how to create a very basic one, how to understand how websites are created and built and to up-date a more complex one designed for you by a professional.
With Facebook there's no excuse for local organisations not to communicate with their members and the general public on-line. It doesn't require website buiding skills unlike Myspace. There are user friendly spaces for event notifications, photo uploading and discussions.
Hats Off Internet