As I interview and touch base with Industry favorites like Rae Hoffman, and showcase Cre8asiteforums Moderators this month, I’ve begun to mix together old friends and create a reunion of sorts.

While I polish up some of the upcoming Industry interviews, I’d like you to meet some wonderful people from the Cre8tive Community, in our continuing Moderator, Member, Industry Interviews: 6th Anniv Celebration Series.

Miriam Ellis, Moderator

I am sincerely excited about the data we’re discovering and the small Local Search community is full of incredibly smart, nice folks. I’m also pretty excited right now to have just been given the keys to Search Engine Guide’s blog by Jen Laycock. I’ve written for them in the past, but now I’m a full-fledged blogger there. The quality of the subject matter and writing at SEG is so impressive, it’s keeping me on my toes trying to keep my posts commensurate with the very high quality I’ve always so admired there.

Garrick Saito, Site Administrator

I think forums are a great outlet for whatever blows up your skirt, both from an educational as well as an entertainment and friendship standpoint. I have ‘friends’ whom I’ve never met.

Graham (aka fisicx), Long-Time Member

4. Please name an example of something Cre8asiteforums helped you with.
People. In the beginning I used to think that websites were important but the forum has taught me that this is not the case. A website could disappear and never be missed, what’s important is people and their needs.

It’s this theme that I see so often in the forum. It’s especially pertinent in hospital when the first post after ‘can you look at my site’ often begins with the question: what’s the site for? The original poster had built the site without considering what they wanted the site to achieve but more importantly what people actually wanted.

For me this was the big turning point, the forum showed me that my ideas were perfect for me but not always suitable for everybody else. I changed they way I approached each project and now spent more time talking to clients than I ever did on the actual coding.

So the lesson from cre8asite is: people matter.

There’s more to come!