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The more than
700 community groups currently in our network have
joined it for lots of different reasons: to get more
publicity and exposure, to learn about the Internet, to
create a private meeting-place for their members or a
storehouse for their records, or maybe to take part in
our big vision of a lively, 21st-century town square.
Here's a small collection of those community groups and
their reasons for being here:
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That UPPITY Theatre
CompanyArts groups were among the earliest members of
our program, because it gives organizations themselves
control over submitting, editing and deleting events on
the Community Web Sites, Post-Dispatch.com, Get Out and
STLtoday.com calendars. Some, like the UPPITY Theatre
Company, also use their Web sites in lieu of brochures:
They cost nothing to print, can be updated continuously,
and are always handy wherever you happen to be.
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NCCJ St. LouisThe National Conference for
Community and Justice saw the Web site network as an
opportunity to offer teaching materials on bias and
tolerance online. Other religious and human rights
groups have found that being linked into the Post-Dispatch.com and STLtoday.com Web sites - which
receive more than four million visits every month -
increases their own Web traffic by as many as 20-30
visitors per day.
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Parkview Gardens
AssociationSmaller groups like this neighborhood coalition
tend simply to get "lost" on the Web. One survey showed
that even the most powerful search engines have no
record of fully three-quarters of existing Web pages. We
believe a managed regional network can do better - that
it can provide rational, constructive ways of bringing
small groups into the common conversation. Look here to learn a couple of
those ways.
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St. Louis Dietetic
AssociationMany groups are less concerned with getting
their word out to the masses than creating a safe,
private place where (for instance) dietitians can get
forms, job listings and professional information; clubs
can store their archives; or men and women dealing with
diseases or addictions can find mutual support and
confidential advice. Any page in a Community Web Site
can be private, for members' only.
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Chinese Language
SchoolWe
live in a diverse region - more diverse than any of us
probably realize, because we all travel in our own
cliques, ruts and interest groups. Did you know, for
example, that our region is home to an historic African-American
cemetery, an Asatru fellowship and another
group celebrating Yiddish culture? The
Post-Dispatch hopes its network will be a window on all
the variety the metro region has to offer. Non-profit
organizations, clubs and arts venues of every sort are
welcome.
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Dick Weiss' Write
StuffIt's
the Post-Dispatch's aim to put every reporting team and
columnist in our news organization (and not just writing
coach Dick Weiss) onto the Web - and to start using this
network as a place where they can learn better what's
going on in the community, and a sometimes skeptical
public can learn how a newsroom works. We hope that
putting all of us into a more active conversation can
produce a new kind of journalism and a stronger public
life.
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