Needed: Neighborhood Representatives For Our Community Forums

Now that the Spark‘s new-and-improved forum is up and running, I thought I’d mention that we need a little help making it a usable community resource. You see, we’ve created a sub-forum that is neighborhood specific, the goal being that local residents in these areas can use the forums to discuss issues relevant to their neighborhoods.

But after creating the first few sections, I realized that there’s a problem. You see, the only part of Spartanburg I’ve ever lived in is Hampton Heights. I know very little about the neighborhoods in the city, and even less about the surrounding townships in Spartanburg County. As a result, I’m not only uncertain of which neighborhoods to give forums to, but I’m also completely ignorant of what topics are most pressing in those neighborhoods.

What I’m asking for is a little help, and that comes in two parts.

First, I need suggestions as to what neighborhoods and towns need to be added to the forum. I’d prefer these be broad in scope, just to keep the number of subforums manageable, but if need be we can have sub-sub-forums for various areas as well. You can suggest a neighborhood in the comments here, or on the thread I’ve created on the forum itself.

Second, I need some volunteers from within these communities to start some conversations in the forums as they’re created. I’m not talking about moderators or anything, and I’m not asking for a deep commitment. I’m just asking for some people to post a few threads about issues and topics specific to those neighborhoods. And if they could e-mail or Facebook some of their neighbors to maybe tell them that there’s a place to discuss such issues, all the better.

So, do we have any volunteers?