Thanks to everyone who came to the Bridge Magazine birthday party in Traverse City! It was great seeing everyone, and we really appreciated your feedback and questions. Special thanks to our guest speakers, Doug Luciani, Chief Executive Director of TraverseCONNECT and member of the Children’s Leadership Council of Michigan and Glen Chown, executive director of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy as well as guitarist Ron Getz for supplying a fantastic soundtrack for the evening.
Next up is Grand Rapids on September 7 from 6pm-9pm at Founders Brewery. This event is free but space is limited, so please RSVP today!
Join special guest Ken Sikkema, Senior Policy Fellow at Public Sector Consultants and former Michigan Senate Majority Leader, and Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andy Johnston with live music by Kevin Nichols.
Hope to see you there!
Comments
All I have seen about these Birthday parties is that they have no agenda, and by the photos it is about Bridge staff meeting with local celebrities. That is to bad, this could have been a great opportunity for Bridge to pick the thinking of reader to see what they think the future of news and a magazine like Bridge could be. It could have been and opportunity for reporters to educated readers in how stories are selected, see if readers have ideas for future stories, reporters could explain why so often it seems the story title seems to miss the point of the story, and reporters could have describe the types of comments that would help reporters improve their stories to fit the readers needs/wants.
It seems this could have been and opportunity to talk about new/innovative features that Bridge might be interested in or at least hear why readers may want such features.
But none of the seems to be part of the Party, so Happy Birthday Bridge and a wish for many more, and thank you for the platform you have created and the opportunity to listen to other readers that make me think.
I attended the 5 year birthday party last year in Ann Arbor. Along with comments and reflections from Phil Power, the evening included introduction of the reporters, some commentary by each of them and then questions from the attendees were taken - many different topics came up. I'm planning to attend the Detroit event and hope it will be similar.