Community Website for Lake County: A Survey
Dec 1 // David Wade // Lakeview, Oregon
CATEGORY: Small Town Economies
Lake County, Oregon is exploring the exciting possibility of creating a community website. To gauge the potential success of the website, we've created a short survey. As the website would serve residents and tourists alike, we want respondents from outside the county as much as we want residents to answer the survey.
Please take a moment to complete the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LCcommunitywebsite
The concept of the community website came out of the work of the Ford Family Foundation (TFFF) and Rural Development Initiatives (RDI). As a part of a Ford Vitality Forum, RDI and TFFF harnessed the positive energy and good reputation of Lake County's Ford Leadership graduates to survey community-minded residents about the strengths and weaknesses of the county.
Out of the survey they found our residents viewed themselves as being very good at working together to accomplish tasks, however, the residents also understood themselves to be poor at agreeing on what tasks to do. A major point of weakness seen by the residents was communication.
Following the survey, RDI and TFFF hosted a number of delicious dinners to foster community discussion about how Lake County could improve its conditions. Out of these discussions we came to see the benefits of a community website.
We saw that by creating a centralized location for information about everything happening in the county, we could not only make significant strides in improving communication, but also do a much better job sharing the county's recreational and cultural opportunities with the world, meaning more tourism dollars for our economy.
Some features of the website would be:
- Announcements
- Sales announcements
- Blogs
- Outdoor guide
- Volunteer listings
- Comprehensive calendar
- Facebook-like directory
Again, please fill out our survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LCcommunitywebsite
Thank you and please don't hesitate to ask questions and give advice!
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