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Good Fundraising Story and Perspective

I spent some time this afternoon hanging around with my friend Jonathan Weber who runs the online publication New West: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains.  He said he’d been asked about the story of starting New West so many times that he’d written a FAQ titled The New West FAQ for Online Community Journalism […]

I spent some time this afternoon hanging around with my friend Jonathan Weber who runs the online publication New West: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains.  He said he’d been asked about the story of starting New West so many times that he’d written a FAQ titled The New West FAQ for Online Community Journalism Entrepreneurs.  I find FAQ / stories / essays like Jonathan’s thousands of times more instructive than my pontifications, so I encourage you to take a look, especially if you are an online community journalism entrepreneur.

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