Join BlogJam 2008

On Friday, April 25, people from across the country will join in the first ever Fort Collins BlogJam generously sponsored by FRII. FRII will open WIFI in Old Town for a full 24-hours in support of BlogJam. So, you will be able to logon to the Internet from anywhere in downtown FREE and uninterrupted.

Please post your comments about our topic. Share your insights with the world! Your comments will become part of a feature on the Beet Street website and shared with other similiar websites in Northern Colorado.

At the end of your comments. Please include the web address to your personal blog. You will become a destination for web-savvy cultural tourists who will link to you from our site and blog to learn more about what to expect and look for in their Fort Collins experience.

Limber up your typing fingers and let the blogging jam!

To participate in Blog Jam 2008, visit http://blogjam2008.blogspot.com on April 25 starting at 12:01am to post your favorite thing about Fort Collins and to read what others have to say.

The site will be closed to comments on 11:59pm.

This year’s blogging topic: 10,000 Little Things

In his book The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management, Stephen Haines outlines the case for instigating and managing change from a systems point of reference. If we extend his premise, we can easily apply this approach to a community because, well, a community is comprised of a wide range of far-reaching, inter-connected and focused systems.

Our favorite passage in this book will provide the topic for our BlogJam discussion:

“Excellence is in doing 10,000 little things right. A strategic management system is a continual improvement in execution: a constant agitation and dissatisfaction of the status quo and a desire of finding new and better ways of doing everything.”

Your assignment: help us to identify the 10,000 little things that Fort Collins is doing right. What is it that makes our city an amazing place to live, work, play and the perfect location to vacation? What are the fun or distinctive places, features and insider secrets that would excite and inspire guests of our community?

1. Enter one observation per comment entry.
2. Observe the format of the comments that launch the BlogJam.
3. Enter as many observations that you can think of (- but enter them as a separate comment – can’t stress this enough!.)
4. If you are a local blogger, please provide an address that we can include in our local BlogRoll directory.

For clarification, send your questions to info@beetstreet.org before April 25th.

You have 23 hours and 58 minutes to tell your side of the story. Be brief. Be specific. And, be inspiring!

Blog away, fellow Fort Collinsians, blog away!