Halflit.net

[crows]

Back to brainstorming for the website. Halflit.net is not my personal website (my personal website is there: http://crows.halflit.net), but it is intended to be a community. I'd originally intended it for writers (it's what I know) but I'm wondering if the greater good might be served by viewing it more as a 'creative' community. My 'artist' friends sometimes have the best advice for my writer self, and exploring different creative media never fails to get me out of some of my ruts, at least for a little while.

I'm just not sure what to do with it. I want to be able to offer people in a small community different things than are filled by the niches that our pervasive social networking fills on the internet (MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, blog sites ad nauseum). I don't have anything like the technology available to me to recreate something massive like that, nor do I want to. However, I want to establish a place that people want to spend time at, contribute to, and benefit from.

So here's to all my creative friends (which is all of you really, you're my type <3) whether you're a musician, visual artist, writer, or whatever you do:

What would you want to see in a specialized online community?

What, if anything, does your social network(s) of choice not provide to you in terms of resources, connection, workshop/feedback/critique, inspiration, or whatever?

What would interest you enough to establish membership on an online community?

What would you like to contribute to a group, if a group of open- and (generally) like-minded people existed in a dynamic community?

Comments

[nimsay]

Be honest with yourself. What do you want halflit to be, and are you perfectly ok with controlling what it will become. Have rules and stick to them. Also, realize because it's going to be a creative community not everyone is going to appreciate each others' "creativity."

It's your domain. Look at what others have done and go from there.