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Help us shift gears starting tonight

Posted on June 2, 2009 | Leave a comment

We’re going to host a meeting this evening (Tuesday, June 2) at 5:30 p.m.upstairs at Shift WorkSpace (@2308 2 nd Avenue North) for those interested in contributing to bhamterminal.com in all of the ways that you can think of (writing, photography, video, audio, etc.).

We’ll talk a little bit about the direction that the site plans to go in the next few months and about interest in some long term projects that we’d like to implement. Plus, you get to see our new offices. You’ll want to come in through the door to the right of the main entrance.

If you’ve got any questions in advance, drop us a line at info@bhamterminal.com.

Get ready to welcome The Hub

Posted on March 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

Good morning Birmingham (and elsewhere)! First of all, thanks to those of you that came out last night – it was a lot of fun, and I think that you enjoyed yourselves as well.

The big news story from last night’s event – we’re doing a beta launch of a social network for Birmingham!

The goal is for The Hub to launch on Monday morning, at least, that’s what our web team is thinking right now. The general idea of launching a social network is not to reinvent the wheel. The idea is to provide a place to have the conversation take place for Birmingham online.

For the techies in the area, we’ll be using BuddyPress to build the network and we’re hoping to be able to use Facebook Connect so that you don’t have to create yet another account log in. It will be a beta, so I’ll apologize in advance for site outages and issues, but I think that it will help us

If you’re interested in being a beta tester for the network, feel free to email us at info@bhamterminal.com.

There will be a little more about this later on today. Enjoy the ride!

Come out to The Bottletree tonight!

Posted on March 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

bldglogo No, I have not been screaming from the top of the City Federal building asking you to come out to The Bottletree tonight for our fairly mellow celebration of this site’s two years of existence (though that does give me an idea for next year).

Hopefully the weather won’t be too bad this evening and the basketball games on the screens should keep your attention if the announcement I’ll be making doesn’t…

See, now don’t you just want to come because of that last sentence alone? The radio silence can be blamed partially on tonight’s announcement as well, but not entirely. The fun’s starting around 5 p.m., there will be some white Terminal Ts given away to some of the lucky attendees (we’ll have a few for sale as well).

If you can come out, great; if not, pass this evite link along to a friend.

Thank you, Birmingham!

Posted on March 13, 2009 | 4 comments

We’ve been rather quiet today, perhaps being a little too retrospective for our own good. But I want to do three things right now…

1) Thank all of you who’ve read us for the past two years (I’ll drop a note to consider supporting us some other ways too).

2) Thank those who’ve written for us in the past as well as our current contributors: Bob Farley, Josh Self, Jason Donaldson, Gordon Bell and when available, Terri (Dann) Osborne.

3) Announce that while our anniversary is tomorrow, our anniversary happy hour will be on Thursday, March 26 at The Bottletree. We’ll have more info on Monday. We’ll have a couple of other announcements then as well.

4) Make sure you head on over to Timetable this afternoon and check out Jason’s picks (and add your own to them).

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Posted in From the Stationmaster

Tagged Andre Natta, anniversary, Events, information, stationmaster, thank you, The Terminal, Timetable

We turn 2 on Saturday!

Posted on March 9, 2009 | 4 comments

No, it’s not necessarily big news, but it’s news nonetheless. What are we going to do to celebrate? I have no idea. We’d like your feedback to help figure that out. If anyone has an idea about where they’d want to meetup to celebrate our second anniversary, add your suggestion to the comments section.

While I’m at it, I’d also like to remind you that we’re still taking submissions for our Be Birmingham photo contest until Thursday afternoon, March 12, at 5 p.m. I’ll be blunt and say that I was hoping to see more entries reflective of actual places and people in Birmingham, but there’s still time to see if those types of entries will come in.

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Posted in The Terminal

Tagged AL, Alabama, anniversary, Birmingham, The Terminal

Be Birmingham contest reopens!

Posted on March 6, 2009 | 3 comments

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That was the internal name for the “orange sign” contest that we recently attempted. We received one entry for the contest from Rod Needham (that’s it up above), at which time we learned that because of changing servers last week, folks may have found it difficult to submit their entries. BTW, Rod’s submission, which will be uploaded to the set by this afternoon, said that he thinks of “precipitation” when he thinks of Birmingham… You’ll have to read his entry. That said, I figured we’d reopen the contest, starting… NOW! NOTE: It closes on Thursday, March 12, at 5 p.m.

Need more info? Make the jump…

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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, contest, orange sign, relaunch, restart, The Terminal

UPDATE: About those orange signs…

Posted on February 20, 2009 | 16 comments

UPDATE: The photo submission form has been turned on… and the contest has been extended until Thursday, March 12 @ 5 p.m.

Many of you who stopped by our booth at TechMixer last night were asked to take home orange signs – and we wouldn’t tell you why…

Well, now we are.

We want you to show us what Birmingham means to you! The one that we think is the best gets a $50 gas card! I thought you’d like that…