Several years ago, I created a Squidoo site titled Dayton Marketing Community. The site was designed to serve as a central hub for Marketing Professionals in Dayton to find information about networking opportunities, job openings, social functions, professional development, and other interesting items about the community.
I was inspired to build the site by Seth Godin, founder of Squidoo and my favorite author. I decided to focus on Dayton and Marketing, because I had just gone through a job search and was frustrated by how difficult it was to find good information about the opportunities in the community.
The site is still up, and has been very successful over the years in connecting people with opportunities. Don’t believe me? Go to google and search Dayton Marketing. As of this post, the site is the number one result. (Of course that may change over time, but needless to say, it has done well.) Still, one element, a very important one, was missing. People.
While the site was about the community, it did not contain a community. It was flat. Don’t get me wrong, the site has great information, does fantastic in search, and has helped countless people find opportunities. Still, I had always hoped that I could somehow build in the element of conversation into the site. After reading Seth Godin’s book Tribes, I decided that it was time to bring this idea, and the Dayton Marketing Community to life… and now I have.
If you are a Marketing Professional in Dayton, Ohio I encourage you to join the new social network Dayton Marketing Community. I am really excited about this project. It launched just over a week ago, and already the site has over 60 members. People are beginning to add events to the calendar, start discussions, upload video and photos, search for jobs, create vivid profiles, make friends, and engage one another in new and meaningful ways.
My hope is that the site can serve to connect our community in new and exciting ways. From helping people to find job to helping local employers to fill them. From encouraging people to share their thoughts through integrated blogs to sharing know how through the forums. From connecting old friends in new ways to making new friends, to creating mentoring relationships and on and on. The potential of the site is vast. All it requires is people to care enough to make it something worthwhile and remarkable.
I know that personally, I get multiple emails every week from people looking to fill jobs and people looking to find them. How great would it be if that connection could be made quickly through Dayton Marketing Community?
This city is a great place, filled with great people. Now more than ever, we must seek out ways to help one another succeed. Perhaps this site will further that cause just a little.
Join the community!
