On Wed 20 Feb 2008, Chris Prather chris@prather.org wrote:
I think right now the issues we have is that more people don't realize that they exist.
Yes - exactly. I keep hearing "RGL is great! Why didn't I know about it before?"
I don't think OpenGuides necessarily needs to compete in the great user-generated content bunfight - we don't need to be fighting against Trusted Places, or Qype, or whatever Friday Cities is called this week, because what we do is different. What we need to do is to reach the people who already _want_ what we're doing, but who don't know that what they want already exists.
I think part of the problem is that people aren't talking about OpenGuides. Way back when we started, there was a huge amount of buzz around OGL - the Semantic Web people were excited, the psychogeography people were excited, everyone was excited. We're still exciting! It's just that the buzz has died down.
Most of the people I'm talking to about RGL at the moment aren't new media/web 2.0 people, but people who've spent a good part of their lives involved in local community stuff, and are now looking at ways to take this online.
Kake