I have a new beer community project which has just gone live. The site is http://www.beeraholix.com
Below is all the background info.
I would appreciate any feedback, and feel free to start submitting news, and voting on exiting items.
Beers,
Doc
The Idea
The premise behind the site is to build a portal that has current up to the hour news on beer with a primary focus on Australia. There are already many existing beer related information outlets on the internet that are homebrewing focused forums, commercial brewing focused forums, brewery websites, podcasts and digests etc, but nothing to aggregate the content together in a single place, especially with a focus on beer in Australia.
The Site
Beeraholix.com is a non-profit (hopefully self sustaining) community based, beer news aggregator that dynamically pulls information from beer related sources in Australia and globally and also allows members to submit their own beer related topics/information. Content is displayed based on the Beeraholix members voting. If the information is non/miss information it probably won't make it to the front page. If it is hot news then it will make it to the front page, and probably to the top. Think Digg style if you are a techie and frequent Digg.
Members can also comment on beer news articles.
The site has been designed so that it is pretty clean and doesn't use a lot of bright colours. The thinking behind this is the site shouldn't standout like dogs balls while you are at work. That way the site can be viewed during the day/lunch breaks etc whilst at work.
The Team
The team that will manage the site are beer enthusiasts born from the homebrewing community, that have a passion and love of beer.
FAQ
q: Who is behind all this ?
a: Doc from Aussiehomebrewer.com (AHB) is the lead, and the Mod team initially from Aussiehomebrewer.com too.
q: Does this replace AHB, as AHB members are involved ?
q: No. AHB is still the home of homebrewing and homebrewers in Australia. Beeraholix encompasses all avenues of beer (over a primary focus on homebrewing) and it isn't a forum based implementation like AHB.
q: Where is it hosted ?
a: Beeraholix.com is hosted in Australia on the same server as AHB.
q: Is there a roadmap for Beeraholix ?
a: Yes there is. There are a number of ideas in the works to help promote and grow the site. However like any community grass-roots based idea we are starting small and will scale accordingly.
Below is all the background info.
I would appreciate any feedback, and feel free to start submitting news, and voting on exiting items.
Beers,
Doc
The Idea
The premise behind the site is to build a portal that has current up to the hour news on beer with a primary focus on Australia. There are already many existing beer related information outlets on the internet that are homebrewing focused forums, commercial brewing focused forums, brewery websites, podcasts and digests etc, but nothing to aggregate the content together in a single place, especially with a focus on beer in Australia.
The Site
Beeraholix.com is a non-profit (hopefully self sustaining) community based, beer news aggregator that dynamically pulls information from beer related sources in Australia and globally and also allows members to submit their own beer related topics/information. Content is displayed based on the Beeraholix members voting. If the information is non/miss information it probably won't make it to the front page. If it is hot news then it will make it to the front page, and probably to the top. Think Digg style if you are a techie and frequent Digg.
Members can also comment on beer news articles.
The site has been designed so that it is pretty clean and doesn't use a lot of bright colours. The thinking behind this is the site shouldn't standout like dogs balls while you are at work. That way the site can be viewed during the day/lunch breaks etc whilst at work.
The Team
The team that will manage the site are beer enthusiasts born from the homebrewing community, that have a passion and love of beer.
FAQ
q: Who is behind all this ?
a: Doc from Aussiehomebrewer.com (AHB) is the lead, and the Mod team initially from Aussiehomebrewer.com too.
q: Does this replace AHB, as AHB members are involved ?
q: No. AHB is still the home of homebrewing and homebrewers in Australia. Beeraholix encompasses all avenues of beer (over a primary focus on homebrewing) and it isn't a forum based implementation like AHB.
q: Where is it hosted ?
a: Beeraholix.com is hosted in Australia on the same server as AHB.
q: Is there a roadmap for Beeraholix ?
a: Yes there is. There are a number of ideas in the works to help promote and grow the site. However like any community grass-roots based idea we are starting small and will scale accordingly.
