We're working on a new website for RAN to roll out in 2010. We really want to bring our community together, and we know nothing does that better than the internet. We're active on Facebook and Twitter, and we're wanting to also show off our Flickr and YouTube pages too. We find out where to go and what to do because our friends and their friends post to a blog, send us an email or hit us with text messages.We know there are a lot of "gaijin sites" on the net these days--we read and participate on them too! We think they are good at providing the information and entertainment they provide. But just like there are other magazines out there that aren't anything like RAN magazine, we want to create a good companion website that will be unlike what's already out there.We already have a long list of ideas of what the new RANmagazine.com should have, but it's hard for me to stare at that blank Dreamweaver canvas and come up with something; I need a starting point! 6 months ago, we asked "what do you want your Nagoya magazine to be?" and the responses turned into RANmagazine. Now we ask "What do you want your RANmagazine.com to start out with? Dozo osenkyou shite kudasaimase.
Would you like RAN magazine's new website to focus more on:
Value Responses Being a place for in-depth discussion of RAN magazine stories? Providing a general forum to discuss whatever comes to mind in relation to "gaijin life" in Nagoya? Being a place to find out where to eat/drink/party/play in Nagoya? Starting a directory for finding area businesses? Providing a classifieds section to handle individual garage sales, "sayonara" sales, etc? ...something else not listed here? (Please let us know by commenting on this post) Wait... What the hell is RAN magazine?! Never heard of it.... (*sigh... visit ranmagazine.com/issues and read first, then come back here!)
There's still some time to vote-- I'm moving forward on the design process, but still wanna know what functions you want to see on RANmagazine.com
Posted via web by J7
This is an experiment of sorts to try to tie together my online identity and my offline personality. I've made plenty of business oriented sites, but I have never actually put together one for myself personally... With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace along with blog sites like Blogger and Twitter, I find that I have cut a wide swath here in the internet, in terms of being actively online, but there isn't one place to really tie that information together. So this will be an attempt at doing so.