How do you break the egg?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on February 12, 2009 at 10:44am

Tony,

I actually sat and had coffee with Joe yesterday and we touched on the subject of why Fort Wayne seems to be missing out or just don't "get it".

We came to some rough conclusions and/or ideas on why this might be. And to do this, we compared RainFtWayne to SmallerIndiana.

1.) SI is more centrally focused on Indy. No surprise. But there are numerous cities within an hour of their events/happenings so it makes them (Indy and SI) more vibrant, more active
2.) Indy has a much greater presence of people who understand the web and "get it"
3.) Ft Wayne has a bit of an identity crisis in that they're not sure if they're a small town trying to be a big city or a big city trying to be a small town
4.) The "buddy system" still exists in Ft Wayne. If you don't know the right people and try to be part of their organization, well, you're an outsider. You're not "Bills" buddy from high school

Just my $0.02 :)

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Permalink Reply by Charisse Benton on May 4, 2009 at 3:10am

Chris Tomlinson said:

Tony,

I actually sat and had coffee with Joe yesterday and we touched on the subject of why Fort Wayne seems to be missing out or just don't "get it".

We came to some rough conclusions and/or ideas on why this might be. And to do this, we compared RainFtWayne to SmallerIndiana.

1.) SI is more centrally focused on Indy. No surprise. But there are numerous cities within an hour of their events/happenings so it makes them (Indy and SI) more vibrant, more active
2.) Indy has a much greater presence of people who understand the web and "get it"
3.) Ft Wayne has a bit of an identity crisis in that they're not sure if they're a small town trying to be a big city or a big city trying to be a small town
4.) The "buddy system" still exists in Ft Wayne. If you don't know the right people and try to be part of their organization, well, you're an outsider. You're not "Bills" buddy from high school

Just my $0.02 :)

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Permalink Reply by Charisse Benton on May 4, 2009 at 3:18am

I would have to agree to some extent. I am an actual transplant from California and although i've been here for 12 years, you are sometimes looked at as an outsiderand considered in the loop or the click. My experience on a good note is that it can work to your advantage. There are people open to new ideas and the facination of a different perspective than what has been comfortable and familiar to some Fort Wayne natives. Network,network and network. Make connections! talk to everyone you meet. You never know who is in need of your services or who may know someone in need. My advice is believe in yourself. Believe in your product and what your aspirations are. You will be successful!

That's my $0.03 cents :)

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Permalink Reply by Tony Scelzo on May 21, 2009 at 2:32pm

Spoon feed or Beat culture and advance thinking into it. I think unfortunately like the rest of the midwest. Ft Wayne will not have a choice to start to look at the world differently.

We no longer live in a world where you can walk out of college and expect to make a living that would support a family comfortably well. When my dad went to work as an engineer? The guy on the line w/ 5 years of tenure nearly made 25% more than he did.

We need not only more knowledge working jobs, we need more entrepeneurs and result minded knowledge based workforce. The big 3 will never save the midwest.

It is time to save ourselves.

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