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Happy 2nd Birthday to People’s Press Collective!

by | 10:09 pm, August 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

DNC - Power to the People's Press Collective!It’s hard to believe, but this week marks PPC’s second anniversary.

As some of you may know, what became People’s Press Collective was first conceived on the day it was announced that the 2008 Democratic National Convention would take place in Denver. Wesley, Eileen, and I were barbecuing on Wesley’s patio when the subject came up, and we decided we couldn’t simply let the DNC take over our city without doing something. But what to do?

One thing led to another, and along the way we met Michael, John, and Joe, and brainstormed a big idea for a unique political website serving the center-right in Colorado. An idea which promptly fell flat on its face. But then we came up with the idea for PPC, a site where we could bring together existing center-right bloggers from across the state, mix in our own original content, and build up a bigger audience and presence than any single blogger or smaller blogging group could do on their own. The name “People’s Press Collective” for this new site was initially brainstormed as a  joke, but we temporarily adopted it as camouflage to give us some measure of safety during the DNC – after which we were stuck with it, having unexpectedly developed brand recognition due to our coverage of the Convention.

Besides being the triggering event that led to the formation of PPC, the DNC was also PPC’s rollout event — while the site was active early in August 2008, the actual launch came on the Wednesday before the Convention, when we gathered together the initial crew of bloggers and volunteer photographers for a training session before the first large meeting of Liberty on the Rocks. We then spent ten hectic days covering the circus of DNC-related events and protests in Denver.

Since then, we have covered elections and news stories, aired opinions on national, state, and local issues, provided Coloradans with video of protests, debates, and events, presented live broadcasts of candidate forums and tea parties, and held training camps for citizen journalists and grassroots activists in how to be more effective and visible in what they do. We have added two companion sites, PPC-NoCo and Political Breath, and will soon be expanding next door to Nebraska.

On behalf of the PPC board, thank you to all of our blogger contributors for making PPC work, and to our readers and commenters for your visits to the site and for adding your own perspectives to the discussions here. For us, bringing PPC into being and watching it develop has been a fun, eventful, and educational experience.

In closing, I’d like to remind everyone that PPC really is a collective effort — it’s not part of our name just as a joke. If you are a blogger, or you like to take pictures or video of political events, or you enjoy creating current-events-themed art or videos, we may have a place for you in the Collective. I’d also like to remind everyone that we are a reader-supported site — we depend on advertising and on the generous contributions readers like you provide through the Pay-Pal links on the right-hand sidebar. If you would like to help PPC continue to improve and grow, please consider purchasing an advertisement or making a donation — while it’s not tax-deductible, we can assure you that it will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside every time you visit the site.

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  1.   robert southwell
      August 22nd, 2010 @ 9:56 am

    Congratulations on a milestone.

  2.   Peoples Press Collective | Nebraska News and Politics | People’s Press Collective Expands to Nebraska :
      August 27th, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

    [...] Press Collective has officially expanded to Nebraska. For those of you new to the Collective, PPC was founded in August 2008 as a response to the DNC invasion of Denver. While our name and logo were originally satirical and [...]

  3.   Charley Miller
      September 1st, 2010 @ 10:12 pm

    First Citizen Journalist to email me, go to my website charleymiller2010.wordpress.com
    or mail me at gmail charleymiller2010
    with full list of interview questions will get an exclusive. reprint it here.

    Or we can do STREAM OF Conciousness, like how many people do that, like none. maybe. I will..

    Or call in tomorrow to my radio show.

    Good Luck.

    charleymiller2010

    Oh. cough. I am running against the “Buck N’ Bennet” show, on the November ballot just below them Charley Miller “Unaffiliated”

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