Cody's Thoughts on... Whatsuphutch.com

By Cody Heitschmidt

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 June 2008 )

  Well whatsuphutch.com is officially 18 days old, we have had just under 18,000 page views, we have had visitors from 12 countries, 47 states and we are considering the first 18 days a resounding success.

We have had 301 comments to our content and 19 community blogs posted by readers, the participation has been better than we expected this early on.

We had to defend ourselves already when Dwight Jurgens voiced his opinion about whatsuphutch.com, click here.

Our main concern from the beginning was how to get content to keep it fresh... We have had to turn away prospective columnists because we needed to slow down a tad and make sure we stayed organized. By next week we should have a total of 10 columnists under "Reads" and 2 more contributors to 2 new "Channels" we are gonna add. Send us an email if you are interested. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

We will be launching our live channel next week with interviews and discussions being broadcast live across the internet as well as archived for future use. We already have the first 4 interviews in the process and many more ideas to come.

One of our community blogs has generated has generated 52 comments as well as a Facebook group that has 284 members. Click here to read the post.

Our 11 year columnist has made some great points and generated some good comments. Click here to read Salthawk Kid.

Mitchell has the funniest post yet with his tribute to the Hutchinson Roundabout here.

Mitchell also has a great discussion being currently generated about The Reno County Area Transit (RCAT) here.

 

We have the Executive Directorof the Reno County Historical Society involved in a discussion about the Kansas Underground Salt Museum here . 

And we have some incredible pictures submitted by readers, here.

There's tons of other stuff going on, just bounce around the site and check it out. We have hundreds of other topics we want to cover and get discussions started on but we felt like some of the good conversations were getting buried a little so we are trying to get everyone to visit them again.

Please, Please, Please believe us that we want your suggestions as far as topics to cover, events to promote or anything else you guys think this website could.

Send complaints, concerns questions or suggestions to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will read them.

Thanks and tell everyone to come check out the site.

Users' Comments (1)

Posted by Starla Wells 06-24-2008 17:53, , Guest   I have a funny story about the Roundabout. Back in 2001 with HHS won the State Basketball title I was contacted about providing an HHS flag to be hung at the Roundabout in honor of their championship. I was the Booster Club Prez at the time plus I had a son on that Championship Team so I quickly agreed it was a great idea. I gave them mine and after a few weeks I received a phone call from the City saying the flag had been stolen. Time passed and a friend emailed me one day saying she had overheard a conversation between several Buhler High School baseball players bragging about taking the flag. I called one of their parents that I knew (as I would have hoped they would of done in the same situation) and the flag was quickly located. It had, however, been spray painted with several comments in Buhler maroon paint. One young man returned the flag - very apologetically (most likely at his parents urging) and all was forgiven. The art may not attract many's attention but the flags flying overhead obviously provided these high school kids some relatively harmless fun and a story that they've probably retold many times!! By the way - I love the thing!!   » Reply to this comment...

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