This site is dedicated to bringing what larger cities in the world take for granted: An online community by locals for locals.
If you’re tired of trying to find the “community” at the major so-called local sites, tell your friends you finally found a place for news, stories, photos and videos from the area, and a growing community of Wayne County area locals.
Who Are We?
GWC Editor
I’m Jack Humphrey. I grew up in Richmond, went to school at Richmond High (like I had a choice), Ball State University and University of Illinois, Chicago, and lived and worked in different places around the country for about 13 years before moving back to my home.
It took awhile to get over my “big city” snobbery and come to love my home again. If you’re young and ready to “get out of Richmond” take it from me, you will likely find yourself longing for the size and type of community you grew up in.
I know that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true for so many people I graduated from high school with. The only thing holding many of them back is that the job situation in Richmond cannot support more professionals with families at the moment.
I’ve been on the web professionally, full-time since 2002. I have 2 companies, both of which specialize in helping website owners and businesses get more attention in the search engines through blogging, search engine optimization, link building, local search and much more. I’m responsible for generating and teaching others to generate billions of visitors over the years.
I started a local blog network called SearchDirectoryOf.com with some partners a couple of years ago and learned that local is where its at. I then started wondering how people would feel about a different kind of local site for our area and started asking around.
Needless to say, I was encouraged by what I learned. While we have a handful of great sites in the area, there was still something missing. So that’s where the idea for GWC was born.
We’re constantly evolving and growing, so it’s a good idea to check back often and, especially, sign up for a free membership so you can grow your own network and help guide the way this site improves and grows in the future.
GWC Entertainment Reporter
Brad Meyers is more dedicated to the night scene in Richmond and surrounding areas than anyone else. When he’s not tracking Bigfoot through the forests and fields of Wayne County by day, you can find him on the scene wherever there is live music or something fun to do at our many great pubs and bars.
Think it’s a fun job? It is. However, it can be taxing. He’s not such a popular music scene critic that he gets his beers for free yet, but he’s working on that.
It won’t be long before bar owners throughout the area will snap to attention when he walks in the door. His word on local music and entertainment is final. Fear him. Respect his authoritah!
YOU!
There’s no reason to build a site like this if no one shows up and thinks it’s something to spend time on. This site, in essence, belongs to Wayne County and everyone who lives in our area.
We know from working with other local sites literally all over the world with my local blog network, SearchDirectoryOf.com, that once a site gets going in a community that is hungry for it, it thrives. Aside from a handful of great bloggers, Waynet, and a few other sites, Wayne County is simply starving for a site by locals for locals that has what the big metropolitan cities take for granted.
We’re hoping you see the potential here, whether you are looking for the latest info on happenings around the area or you’re a business looking for an opportunity to get in front of local residents.
The way we succeed with GWC depends largely on you. Tweeting, telling friends, family, and business owners about the site, or linking from your Facebook page… all are things that will help this site become a major hub destination for friends, family and businesses in the Wayne County area.
We’ll bring the goods, you bring your friends. (And tell us what “goods” you’d like to see here on the site. We’re open to about anything that people would like to see here as long as it stays family friendly!)
Would You Like To Report For Go Wayne County?
Just fill out the form below, tell us about yourself and what your interests are, whether you have a site of your own and anything else that will help us in considering you for a regular column or just a post here and there.
We need:
- article contributors
- columnists
- pictures of events, places, images of stuff that makes this home to us
- event announcements for our calendar
So, got something to share? Click Here to submit your information!