I must have missed this when he did it, but Brian had a podcast interview recently, that’s worth listening to. Brian has contributed a great deal to the wiki over the past few years and has since evolved his blog into one of the most well-read ones in the expat community.
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June 10th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Thanks for the kind words!
As far as the wiki goes it’s kind of a catch-22. I’d like to start writing for it again, but there aren’t many contributors, and writing up this area isn’t a one-man job. On the flipside, there aren’t many contributors because people like me aren’t writing more. We’ll see what happens . . . though I was indescribably disappointed that my year-long attempts to recruit people from down here to the wiki failed completely. Well, at least Bundanggumin is still holding down the fort.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:25 am
I’ve never looked at the wiki as being a community tool moreso than an FAQ, so I’m not discouraged that more people in places like Suncheon have not come forward to write. Larger populations, like Daegu, have more anon writers who come on and make edits every month, but nothing prolific. But that’s all I was hoping for anyways. People to say ‘hey, that bar is closed now’ and whatnot. But I think its important to be realistic in that expat commited priorities over here are usually revolved around making money and socializing offline. The smaller contingent maintains semi-regular blogs and browses forums now and then. So any day-to-day dedication on the wiki is coming from a very small potential pool to begin with.
I don’t know Suncheon expat life, but if its anything like Geochang (pop. 100,000), where I lived for a year, the 20 or so expats were always off doing different things and when they are online, it was long enough for Facebook and email. That’s the challenge of dealing with expat demographics over here.
On the bright side, I’ve seen Galbijim page stats on your Suncheon articles and they’ve gotten about 200+ pageviews over the past year (filtering out people who return to the same pages a lot, ie., bots or editors like yourself). Considering that the pages are not as optimized for Google as they could be, thats still not bad for Suncheon’s stats, give n the size of its expat community.
But if you want to try to harness the Suncheon expat community, you might want to try creating a Facebook group for it and associate a Suncheon-specific blog to it, where you write about Suncheon area news, restaurants, bars, things relevant to the expat community there, etc…And add supplementary links in the blog to relevant wiki articles that you’ve created on the city, etc…That’s how I’m spending most of my online time these days, regarding the promotion of the blog and wiki to the Daegu expat community.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Not a bad idea . . . I don’t have the energy or knowhow to do another blog, though, but can try to link to the wiki as much as possible now. I just find it really tough to stay on top of things like restaurants, bars, and doctors offices . . . must be insanely difficult for a place the size of Daegu.