Sustainable Alachua County

I’ve got a simple website up now for Sustainable Alachua County (SAC). We recently had an inspiring stakeholder meeting to discuss how SAC can be a virtual & physical hub for sustainability in Gainesville. My focus is primarily on the virtual part.

The site right now is not much more than a few static pages with a simple blog and a donation page, but the goal is to turn it into a community-driven resource where people and organizations can interact, network and collaborate with each other over the web.

Over 120 people representing different organizations came to SAC’s first meeting, so we already have a lot of people who are likely to be interested in using the website.

Some challenges:

• Making it useful. Building a tool that inspires and assists action, not just talk.
• Building something that’s easy to use by members of the community who might not be too computer savvy
• Building a site that can be managed by future “generations” of SAC members

I’m using WordPress as a content management system for the blog and other pages, and I’m working now on building a forum using bbPress.