What Plugged In Cleveland Stands For
• Keeping things simple, honest, real, down-to-earth, fresh and free.
• Providing a platform where people can share useful and timely information.
• Providing an alternative to impersonal, hard to use, ad saturated corporate media sites.
• Building community and making Cleveland a better place to live, work and play.
How The Site Has Grown
The Events section came about because I was annoyed at receiving the same event emails from various people over and over. Creating a centralized calendar of events where everyone could contribute just made a lot of sense. Best of all everyone can benefit.
Soon after the Events section, I added the General Postings section where listings that were not events could fall. Since a lot of the same types of postings (real estate, rentals, jobs) were being posted in this section, I decided to break these categories out to their own sections.
What Motivates Me?
As any of those who know me personally, I love staying busy and alway have my hand in at least 5 different projects at any one time. This web site is one of those projects. First and foremost, I'm motivated because I love creating and watching my projects grow and take a life of their own on. It's great fun and very rewarding for me to see that. Secondly, I'm just not happy with the current internet offerings in Cleveland. Everything I've found is either out of date, has minimal content, is ad riddled or is just poorly done. Cleveland deserves better and through this web site hopefully I can accomplish that.
How Can I Run This Site For Free?
I get asked this question a lot. Other then the initial time it takes me to program the web site (which I enjoy doing as a hobby), there is very little other work involved with running the web site. The web site pretty much runs itself and costs me nothing to run since I own and administer my own servers for MusicStack (my primary business) and the few google ad banners I do have on the site cover the costs of additional bandwidth.
Why Don't I Charge For Postings?
Why would I want to do that? It would just hamper the growth of the site and would make the site like others out there. I feel it is more important to create something of value for Cleveland instead of trying to profit at every chance possible.
Plugged In Cleveland is my way of giving back to the community. Some people donate their time at soup kitchens or at nursing homes. I prefer to use my talents in computer programming to help out.
Who Is Dave Stack?
Other then the guy who runs this web site, here is some more info for you.
When I am not out and about, my main gig is running an online business I created in 1997 called MusicStack. MusicStack is a web site where multiple record stores can sell their CDs and records all under one web site and compete against each other. With over 20 million CDs and vinyl records listed on MusicStack, it is one of the largest record stores on earth!
Still Want To Know More?
Read some great newspapers articles that were written about me, my businesses and my 1903 Queen Anne victorian home.
Feel free to Email me with suggestions, bug reports, gripes or compliments.
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