Ross and your Commish met to discuss what I will now term the 'Blog Project.' Right now this blog serves as a 'community' where we can share thoughts and resources with each other. I know that Ross would like to start making some of our community available for public consumption, including the podcast and blog. The when and how are still up in the air, but Ross has some great ideas for turning our fantasy hockey league into something accessible. Plus there has been talk in the past about our podcast graduating from the farm system of our 13 person community into the big leagues on Hockey Gods. I may have read that on Eklund, so don't quote me on it.
Still, it feels like it might be time to open up the discussion about what people want from the project again.
With a few episodes of the podcast available, I get the sense that people are more comfortable with it than maybe they anticipated. Is that the case? Important questions about the podcast:
1) How do you feel about participating in it if it goes public versus being heard just by our league mates?
2) How do you feel about being talked about (or even being named) if it's public?
If we were to make the blog public, I think the hope would be for some reasonably frequent content. I know Ross and Rhys have offered to develop content, and everyone agrees that anything we do would be with the goal of being a bit different. It wouldn't necessarily be hockey reporting (though if someone wants to do that, power to you), but more opinions, analysis, and essays. Maybe some comedy? That sounds like what people are interested in doing at the moment, anyway. Blog questions:
1) Any interest in providing content? No one will be forced! But if everyone wrote 1 piece every two weeks, it would be a blog with daily content. So it doesn't have to be a whole new hobby every day after work even if you do volunteer.
2) Is this something we should connect with our blog and fantasy hockey league? Or should it be hosted elsewhere, managed separately, and not related?
3) Same issue as the podcast - how do you feel about either you or your fantasy team being talked about in public?
Lastly, Ross has some neat ideas about trying to create some interactive features related to making our fantasy hockey league into a fantasy game itself. We're not sure how to do it on a technical level, but Ross had an idea for something of a survivor pool based on our fantasy hockey match-ups. Or maybe monthly people can pick the winners of our fantasy match-ups for small prizes (merch or something). Again, the 'how' is not yet sorted out. But it involves you, so what do you think? Do you want to be involved? Do you mind being involve/named/talked about?
Put your thoughts to those questions in the comments please! And as always, feel free to discuss any other thoughts you have.
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