http://frontporchforum.com/blog/2007/07/11/topix-focusing-on-local-forums/ ... about community within neighborhoods and Front Porch Forum. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:58:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://frontporchforum.com/blog/2007/07/11/topix-focusing-on-local-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-30267 Topix Forum Posting Pattern at Ghost of Midnight Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:29:46 +0000 http://frontporchforum.com/blog/?p=253#comment-30267 [...] Digging a little deeper into the MediaShift piece about Topix providing small town forums… We found that in most places in this country, we are the only high-end news site. What happens is this odd pattern where a news event happens, and they find our site online and they like it and stick. One of the more dramatic cases was when two tornadoes struck Caruthersville, Mo. Up to that point, we had a little activity there but it was pretty low. That day we had 600 posts about the tornadoes , and it was astonishing, there were first-hand accounts and people were asking if so-and-so was OK. People in the town were responding and saying, ‘yes, they’re OK.’ A few months later, a lot of the people had stayed in the forums. [...] [...] Digging a little deeper into the MediaShift piece about Topix providing small town forums… We found that in most places in this country, we are the only high-end news site. What happens is this odd pattern where a news event happens, and they find our site online and they like it and stick. One of the more dramatic cases was when two tornadoes struck Caruthersville, Mo. Up to that point, we had a little activity there but it was pretty low. That day we had 600 posts about the tornadoes , and it was astonishing, there were first-hand accounts and people were asking if so-and-so was OK. People in the town were responding and saying, ‘yes, they’re OK.’ A few months later, a lot of the people had stayed in the forums. [...]

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