Our Vision

Background:

  • Overwhelming supply of disconnected but meaningful local content

  • Currently no single source for this information

  • Real world connections can get lost on social media

Our Goal:

  • Break the limitations of each individual platform and create a unified community resource

  • Create digital connections that mirror those in the local community

#AVLGroundSwell breaks these limitations by:

  • Emphasizing community driven content

  • Automatic gathering of all available sources of local and regional content

  • Allowing users to follow specific people, locations, and topics of interest

  • Providing tools that allow individuals, groups, and businesses to reach our community

Immediate Community Benefits

  • Huge pool of content

  • Personalized content feed

  • Content the user is interested in

  • Community moderated

  • Community determines importance

  • Community contributes to categorization

  • Open Platform

    API interfaces that allow anyone to add or pull available content

Economic Development

  • Online training and tutorials in new media

  • Personal support by Community Liaison

  • Connect local businesses and consumers

  • Energize community support for emerging technology

  • Retrain old businesses to use new media

  • Provide greater reach for those who produce content by connecting them to a vibrant online community

  • Advertising revenue-sharing model for hosted content