Hi, Guest
It's funny, really. I never truly realized why I was having such a hard time coming to grips with this, until it dawned on me: Focus Canada isn't a car club.
I've said before that I believed that Focus Canada was a car club when I "joined", and by joining I mean registering for the board. It always felt weird to me to consider Focus Canada a car club, but I had believed it was indeed possible... I was the minority member from North Bay, and I struggled to get other members from the area as being "just me" on the forums and around North Bay got boring in a hurry. Thankfully Oscar TG and ThraxXx were converted in a hurry :)
Agian, I guess it's MY mistake. I've gone and mistaken FC.net for a car club. We're a gathering of Focus owners and something of an online community. We share knowledge, opinions, and Anthony's mad PS skills.
What would I do? Create regional chapters in the forum. Appoint mods for each chapter, with obviously cross-over responsibilities in case someone is sick / on vacation, etc.
Within each regional forum, have FS/WTB forums, a G2G forum, and a local sponsor forum wherein the regional sponsor could do as Mitch does now. Simplify the entire Sponsor Forum to one sub-forum from the current three... it's too busy.
Have one Focus Talk forum, and one OT forum for the entire FocusCanada community as it is right now. The OT forum should be left alone, and everything within should be assumed as NSFW.
Keep the Site Suggestions / Issues forum. Make it easier to have members' rides featured on the front landing page. If nothing else, have a FF.com-ish Monthly Featured Ride contest, featuring 3 winners. I'm sure other members would come together on this.
Appoint members to work on other FC apparel and vinyls. The initial stuff is great, I'm not kidding, but more variety too could be appealing to others. Again, I'm sure others wouldn't mind.
I have more, but I need to go restart a server.
OK, I'm back.
Let's get together and design some banners that could be used in a variety of signs / whatnot for car shows that we attend. It would be PIMP to have a big FocusCanada.net banner hung on my rear window, or placed across the trunklid or open trunk area. I'm sure with the great people we have here, it wouldn't be hard.
Don't really change anything on the main landing page for FC.net, except maybe enlarge the members' rides pictures a bit.
Alright, that's enough insanity for now. I'll step back and finish the Ice Capp my better half brought me. :)
I've said before that I believed that Focus Canada was a car club when I "joined", and by joining I mean registering for the board. It always felt weird to me to consider Focus Canada a car club, but I had believed it was indeed possible... I was the minority member from North Bay, and I struggled to get other members from the area as being "just me" on the forums and around North Bay got boring in a hurry. Thankfully Oscar TG and ThraxXx were converted in a hurry :)
Agian, I guess it's MY mistake. I've gone and mistaken FC.net for a car club. We're a gathering of Focus owners and something of an online community. We share knowledge, opinions, and Anthony's mad PS skills.
What would I do? Create regional chapters in the forum. Appoint mods for each chapter, with obviously cross-over responsibilities in case someone is sick / on vacation, etc.
Within each regional forum, have FS/WTB forums, a G2G forum, and a local sponsor forum wherein the regional sponsor could do as Mitch does now. Simplify the entire Sponsor Forum to one sub-forum from the current three... it's too busy.
Have one Focus Talk forum, and one OT forum for the entire FocusCanada community as it is right now. The OT forum should be left alone, and everything within should be assumed as NSFW.
Keep the Site Suggestions / Issues forum. Make it easier to have members' rides featured on the front landing page. If nothing else, have a FF.com-ish Monthly Featured Ride contest, featuring 3 winners. I'm sure other members would come together on this.
Appoint members to work on other FC apparel and vinyls. The initial stuff is great, I'm not kidding, but more variety too could be appealing to others. Again, I'm sure others wouldn't mind.
I have more, but I need to go restart a server.
OK, I'm back.
Let's get together and design some banners that could be used in a variety of signs / whatnot for car shows that we attend. It would be PIMP to have a big FocusCanada.net banner hung on my rear window, or placed across the trunklid or open trunk area. I'm sure with the great people we have here, it wouldn't be hard.
Don't really change anything on the main landing page for FC.net, except maybe enlarge the members' rides pictures a bit.
Alright, that's enough insanity for now. I'll step back and finish the Ice Capp my better half brought me. :)
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.