If you haven't checked out Our City Thoughts yet, you should!
Binsen Gonzalez (pictured) and his team have put together a multimedia platform to share the stories of the Miami region's change makers. There are short videos, such as the mother-son team behind Sportsmanias, lawyer and tech investor Juan Pablo Cappello and entrepreneur Felecia Hatcher, Q&As such as author Roxanna Elden and the Miami Foundation's Stuart Kennedy and event coverage. Many of the people featured are entrepreneurs from a variety of fields, but he also has featured artists, nonprofit leaders, educators and community builders from many disciplines. And he puts up new content all the time.
OurCityThoughts.org launched just a few months ago, but Binsen has already made very impressive traction, with 28,000 views in the last 30 days and viewers spending at least enough time on the site to watch a video. Interestingly, most of his viewership is in the 45 to 64 age group range, even though the content is largely, though not exclusively, focused on millennials. Just goes to show there is a lot of community interest in the future leaders of Miami.
Read more about Binsen's thoughts about why he started Our City Thoughts, which has been funded by the Knight Foundation, in my earlier post here. His vision goes beyond this impressive site.
With eMerge Americas Techweek coming up, Our City Thoughts featured its executive director, Xavier Gonzalez, earlier this week. And Binsen isn't afraid to break format and mix it up. Today, Binsen featured a longer video than he usually does, allowing you to listen in on a breakfast conversation with eMerge visionary Manny Medina and his daughter, Melissa. In it, Manny talks about his longer term vision for Miami as becoming a technology hub, complete with an innovation village, as well as this week's conference.
Check it out and then follow @ourcitythoughts so you don't miss what's next.