tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33343902.post5044504731645260259..comments2024-03-04T08:13:21.933+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Nigel: For all the talk of the journalist as an entrepreneur........Nigel Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00928134310178814741noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33343902.post-50810525108492294982010-01-15T12:32:13.385+00:002010-01-15T12:32:13.385+00:00What you say Anna is a massive problem.As I said m...What you say Anna is a massive problem.As I said most community websites are run by small teams of dedicated volunteers and this is not sustainable in the medium term.<br /><br />I met up with Josh yesterday.He is passionate and dedicated but he will move on and it's unlikely SR2 will move with him although the idea I am sure will.<br /><br />I am currently looking at a luanch of a hyperlocal site and am determined to make it business model sustainable so that the idea will survive without me being there.Nigel Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00928134310178814741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33343902.post-5958825458121716832010-01-15T12:19:59.152+00:002010-01-15T12:19:59.152+00:00I've been running a community newspaper for 10...I've been running a community newspaper for 10 years. Most of my team are volunteers. You all will think we are pretty steam driven as far as our website presence goes, but frankly a lot of our older readers wouldn't even think of reading our website. They are used to the free bi-monthly magazine which is pushed through their letterboxes once every two months.<br /><br />And, yes there could be some chicken-and-egg issues here. We are keen to address this, but we will need to find funding and training to get up to speed and make our site more interactive. <br /><br />One thing that interests me - most of these hyperlocal sites (just as with community newspapers and community websites in the past) seem to be done by one or two v dedicated people. What happens to, say, the SR2Blog when the likes of Josh (who is a hero in my eyes, btw) moves away from Sunderland permanently?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921622369231277744noreply@blogger.com