One D flips switch on new regional website
One D will try to flip the script on Metro Detroit’s stereotype of regional cooperation (or lack thereof) when it flips the switch on its new website Saturday.The idea is for the website to generate activity and new content from users on the five areas that One D focuses on: Regional mass transit, economic prosperity, education, race relations, and quality of life. “It’s really a virtual Campus Martius for people coming together around regional solutions,” says Kat Owsley, director of One D.The new website will accomplish this with web forums, guest speakers, and other avenues that will allow people to express their opinions and ideas on improving Metro Detroit. It will also benchmark the region’s status, progress, and even regression on these issues and how they compare to other major metropolitan areas.One D is a partnership of six regional civic organizations that came to life in 2006. Its focus is on regional revitalization.Source: Kat Owsley, director of One DWriter: Jon Zemke
One D will try to flip the script on Metro Detroit’s stereotype of regional cooperation (or lack thereof) when it flips the switch on its new website Saturday.
The idea is for the website to generate activity and new content from users on the five areas that One D focuses on: Regional mass transit, economic prosperity, education, race relations, and quality of life.
“It’s really a virtual Campus Martius for people coming together around regional solutions,” says Kat Owsley, director of One D.
The new website will accomplish this with web forums, guest speakers, and other avenues that will allow people to express their opinions and ideas on improving Metro Detroit. It will also benchmark the region’s status, progress, and even regression on these issues and how they compare to other major metropolitan areas.
One D is a partnership of six regional civic organizations that came to life in 2006. Its focus is on regional revitalization.
Source: Kat Owsley, director of One D
Writer: Jon Zemke
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