Carolyn,
The same goes for you as for Priestess. Each site needs a person to run it.
My vision for the Nexus Cafe is for it to be a collection of individual sites where the main portals would be local physical communities and the secondary sites would be the special interest sites (like the Reiki Cafe). I personally think that the real power of the internet in a social context is that it can make it easer to get to know people in your own area and this is what I'm attempting to create with this site.
The Reiki Cafe as seen at whitefire.com has been the prototype for a simple community site. The Nexus Cafe is the next step where I can stamp out as many individual sites as I please.
However, just having the technology does not make the community. The People make the community. I am hopping that the users of the Reiki Cafe will plant the seeds for the Nexus Cafe. In that I mean that I am hoping that many of you will want to run your own community sites for the local areas where you live. I would really like to see this site take on a life of its own where the people who use the site take a part in shaping, nuturing, and growing it.
I think that one of the reasons so many community sites never take off is because the people who make them don't actually use them and assume they know what the users want.
So what do you think of all this?
Namaste,
-Mike
redheaddragon said on 6/22/2000 3:52 PM
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