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May 17, 2011

Welcome to TalkSpringfield

When this site originally was devised we had a few goals. At the forefront we wanted to enable communication between everyone in Springfield, IL and its surrounding cities. Craigslist had a feature like this, but everyone either had to communicate via new thread or emailing directly. SJ-R has a comments section, but most of the communication got lost between the actual stories comments. Read the rest of this entry »

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May 14, 2011

What are your favorite things to do in Springfield?

Let hear it, we want to know one favorite thing to do in Springfield that is free, and one that costs money. Let us know!

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May 13, 2011

Whats your favorite place to eat in Springfield, Illinois?

We all have to eat out every now and then. What are some places you love to eat here in springfield Illinois? Is it a chain? Is it a local place? Lets share some of the best places to eat.

Voice your comment at http://talkspringfield.com/forum/store-reviews/whats-your-favorite-place-to-eat/

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May 6, 2011

Whats the “Best” cell phone service in Springfield?

We all know, signal isnt always the greatest out here, so we would love to hear your opinions on what you think is the best cell phone service in Springfield and the reason behind your choice. Is it the features, the phones or the signal? Maybe its the price? Let us know below in a comment. Facebook users, your posts will automatically come over to the home page. Twitter

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May 1, 2011

What Springfield Illinois websites do you visit?

We are thinking about running some website advertisements, what websites do you most often go to?

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April 30, 2011

New Site Features

Welp, I know this site isnt used much. I still need to get to work on advertising but I feel that all the puzzle pieces are in place to make this site work as well as it can with the tools that I have.
Some of the new noted features:

  • The chat room now fully works, including a help bot named TalkSpringfield that sits in there 24×7 unless my server dies.
  • A new review template. The link lets you just fill in questions about the business you want to review. It will make all the posts look the same. In the future I can use this to help make a search able interface!
  • Ad Managment. Currently theres no ads but the google ones.. and only once per page if theres more than 6 replies to a topic. This is very lean, but as we develop sponsors, or just want to advertise somone it will be easy to do.
  • Birthday posts. Birthdays are special. A bot will wish you a happy birthday via forum post..  We will also send you a email or just a personal message based on your profile settings.
  • People can now add comments to your profile. This might be good for small reviews of businesses or just letting everyone know how helpful a individual is.
  • When you first join, the bot makes a topic in the introduce yourself section. We really want you to say hi, thats the whole point of this site!
  • Theres a TalkSpringfield watermark on all of the images added to our site if you use the attachment feature. This is just to let people know who is hosting it if they hotlink to it. Other sites may just not allow it, but we want to be as social as possible. Go ahead and send the picture to others.

We hope you enjoy the site and if you could, please!!!! share this link on your facebook to get us some more followers as well as registered users. Soon we will be able to allow people to register on the forum with their facebook credentials, but until then, we offer OPENID as well as standard registration.

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April 28, 2011

Integrate Facebook with our Forum

In an effort to get the word of mouth rolling, we have integrated facebook into our page. You can link your fb profile picture, update your statuses, check your wall ect all from within the forum. Most of all we would love you to use the features to help promote TalkSpringfield by making comments, liking posts, sharing entire topics and just helping us get the word out!

New users can register with facebook (no usernames or passwords to have to worry about) and existing users can integrate their accounts to a facebook linked one.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to integrate:

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September 20, 2010

New Features and Modifications

Things seem to finally be settling down for me so I can get this site to the point I want it before going on a massive advertisement campaign (free of course).

I present to you some new features:

  • Mobile Phone / Touchpad Support
  • A IRC chatroom
  • Twitter/Facebook Accounts
  • Small visual updates

First off is the mobile view. The Front page if you go to it with a smart phone automatically loads all the stories, now the forum has a mobile mode as well. This one has to be accessed directly. go to talkspringfield.com/forum and click the mobile mode at the very top of the page. Another way to view the mobile forum will be to type mf.talkspringfield.com in your browser (coming soon!)

Second is a chat room. This feature existed before, but we wanted a more open version. Having it hosted through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a great way. Now you can access the chat with any client you want as well as on the website. We wanted to make as easy to use as possible but allow for more advanced users to have more options as well. Head on over to the chat via the link at the top of this page or by clicking Chat in the forums. We will be looking for moderators when the site starts picking up.

Facebook integration is on its way as well as twitter. You can follow us at facebook.com and twitter.com/talkspringfield. Tell your friends. Most of our posts will appear on both and we would love for you to share and comment on the topics :)

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February 21, 2010

No one can find us.

I have looked under normal keywords to see if I can find this site and I can’t. I guess it’s time to take things into our own hands. Heres a list of common phrases I think we should be listed under. Feel free to add to this list by adding a comment!

  1. Springfield Illinois Forum
  2. Springfield IL forums
  3. Springfield IL Chat
  4. Springfield IL Events
  5. Springfield IL discussion
  6. Springfield Illinois discussion
  7. Springfield Illinois events
  8. The best of Springfield IL
  9. What is there to do in Springfield, IL?
  10. What is there to do in Springfield, Illinois?

Hope we get some hits with this as well as the sitemap that is being generated.

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December 12, 2009

Christmas Shopping on a Budget

Most of us are hurting this year, but it doesn’t always mean you have to nix Christmas entirely this year. There are lots of good places to shop that you can get great deals on new and lightly used items this year.

In this article I will give you some tips in shopping  and getting a good deal. It may be too late to ship something, however you can use these tips everyday to get the best deal.

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