Young Emerging Leaders

This is a project Kirkham System has been working on for a long time.  Many of the components of the YEL website was based on our work on www.thecitywire.com.  Let me tell everyone what this project is and how it will affect everyone in our area over the next few years.

Right now if you want to find something in Fort Smith you probably don't turn to the internet.  It is difficult to find what you are looking for in Fort Smith with basic Google searches.  If you were to search for "fort smith plumbers" or "fort smith lawn service" your results will be very poor and will give you very little information about what few companies you might find.  This is because Fort Smith as a community doesn't have enough information available in a Google friendly design for Google to be able to return good results.  I know this sounds geeky but please hang in there for a few more sentences and this should all make sense.  Fort Smith websites as a whole have been very poorly designed over the years.  They do not present information in the best possible way for Google to create good databases. Google may be able to give you a phone number for a few plumbers but you could already get that from the phone book.  The City Wire is intended to become an entire Google friendly website feeding information out about Fort Smith businesses, events, food and even people.  The objective is to make every business and every event in Fort Smith benefit from the internet.  Then company websites won't just be out there hoping someone finds them, but will instead become a tool for reaching out to the large number of people using the internet in our area.  Best of all this entire site will be free.  It will be free to list a business, free to list events, free to sell cars and other stuff in the classifieds, free to create a page about yourself.  

This site has just gone operational a few days ago and we will be working and improving on it over the next few months.  What we need in order to make our vision a reality is for as many people to list events, and businesses as possible.  Also if you see something you know you like be sure and rate it or leave a comment talking about it.  All the information submitted will be available so other website visitors can learn from your experiances.  Think of how much more useful it will be when you look at plumbers online and you see who is the highest rated and has the best reviews instead of who paid the most for a big ad in the yellowpages. 

If you think of something the website needs please feel free to suggest it we are working very hard to make this the best site possible.