Got the card to go through today. So we are starting today getting into the meat of the upgrade. We have the site, we have all the modules added, 10GBs of bandwidth a month.  I think it is a great start.

Now we get to talk with the design team about colors, sections etc…

After several minutes meeting with the owners we believe that they have a better idea about how important clear direction and responsibilities are. We will provide an outline of what needs to be done and they will assign these tasks to the folks that will get them done. constant updates and studying so that we are prepared when this goes live.

The coolest thing about all of this is Scott made a great point. The newsroom needs to have the knowledge at their disposal to talk to everyone they meet about this new site and be able to answer questions and get the word out. This word of mouth excitement and promotion in conjunction with print and online advertising is necessary for our site to be THE source of news and community information for our target area.

I’m even more excited about working the next week and getting this thing up and going!