I started Enjoy Perth with the intention of highlighting great things to do and see in and around Perth, and talk about what we did in Perth.
It’s turned into mainly an event listing, mainly because I wasn’t satisfied with other events listings around the place (very dissapointed in fact!!), and they are the easiest posts to write! (and even they take me wayyy longer than you can imagine!)
My thoughts are shining through less and less. Firstly this is because I’m just not that good at giving my own opinion (I’d even say I don’t have many opinions, and there’s always several sides to a story, and I usually don’t know all of them, so therefore feel I can not comment), and secondly because just reporting on upcoming events is taking up most of my time!!
Because there’s not anything else like Enjoy Perth out there, and using good SEO techiques (mainly WordPress!!), I’m high up in google for searches on all these festival and music concerts. And I think back to what I would want to find if I did a google search on these events: what, when, where, and how. So I give these facts, and link to the relevant websites to get more information and tickets. I also started the calendar. I’m using Google Calendar, because it’s free and easy, but at some stage I’d like to use something that would be a bit more useful as an events calendar, and user friendly for visitors to the site.
So Enjoy Perth isn’t really a blog… Even though it uses blog software, links out quite a bit, etc etc. There might actually be a system out there that is more suited to what Enjoy Perth is about… For now though, WordPress is great, because being a ‘newbie geek’, it’s very easy for me to use!
I’m also really debating about getting rid of the ‘what we did’ posts altogether (though I’d set up something else for that, a more ‘real’ blog), but then it really would turn into an events listing, and I’d definetly have to get rid of all references to ‘blog’, because it just wouldn’t feel right! I’d still keep the odd opinion though (as in ‘ohh, this line-up is really impressive!’) and the links to other sites, and comments, and rss etc etc.
I would LOVE your thoughts and input on this.. I’ve been thinking about it for a while (ok, ever since I started, and seeing how well I was doing in google with listing events!), and thought it about time I write about it, partly influenced by Rich’s article at PerthNorg! I totally agree about ‘good citizen media’ having the person’s ‘voice’. I’m just not good at using my voice…. Practice is probably all I need…. :D
