How Party Volcano Could use a Blog Site

Party Volcano, How Three Fun-Hunting Art Lovers Became Seattle's De Facto Social Directors

This is inspiring to me. These folks have a great idea, a loyal following and they seem to enjoy being the voice of the Party Volcano. I see a great opportunity to take the Party Volcano to a web site, which would allow the organizers to connect to the members on a whole new and improved level- plus it may be easier to manage. Here’s how I think it could work:

I would encourage them to think about a group web log “blog”. This would just be a web site (that can be set-up and run for free) that would allow the organizers (or anyone of their choosing) to post messages to the site on a regular basis- as easily as sending an email. This could be set-up on Blogger.com for free.

This site would/could become an online “home” for the group. Right now, using email, their community is doing great and people are into it. But, if they had a home, the group could take on a new level of interaction. It could start to become a more valuable and popular resource for the members. Here are some of the possible benefits:

• Comments: One of the popular things about blogs is commenting on entries. This means any visitor to the site could leave a message relates to a specific entry. So, once an entry is posted about Ballard, folks would be able to leave their thoughts about the post too. This can become really popular and fun way for members to interact.

• History: The site would automatically become an archive of past entries and be searchable for everyone. Members could refer to the site for any past event.

• Content: The site could have pictures from events, links to other web sites, featured members, etc. This creates more personality- members would feel closer to other members and the organizers.

• Management: The site could manage all the email addresses- members would add and remove themselves automatically.
  

So, what about email? Email would continue to be an essential part of the experience. Member’s would still receive regular email from the Party Volcano- but they would contain links to the site- where the real action is.

Of course, this is all just speculation based on the article. Regardless, I think the opportunity is a big one that could make the Party Volcano an even more treasured resource for us Seattlites.