Your community is our community
English Cologne and MyStadtKöln are geographical community projects. They relate to place.
The top-level is the city: Köln. The top-level community expression is "My Stadt Köln" which the community can employ across different social platforms using just a hashtag: #MyStadtKöln
At a more local scale the project reflects Cologne's city boroughs (Stadtbezirk) as this map illustrates.
People who live in Cologne may associate themselves with the concept of "My Stadt Köln" and hopefully will start using the community hashtag #MyStadtKöln when sharing updates from or about the Cologne, but they might also choose to identify with a smaller more local concept of community.
Here's a screenshot of my Instagram bio. See the hashtags?
Support Your Communities!
I'm going to use Stella, the first local publisher to join the project, as an example of someone who's not me. To illustrate how local communities you might associate with can work together.
Stella joined her local "My Stadt Köln" Telegram channel recently as our first community publisher for her local Stadtbezirk Telegram channel (MyEhrenfeld). Her personal community project is Kornerfeld Galerie.
Below is a screenshot I've just taken of her project Instagram page: koernerfeld_galerie
You'll see how the bio contains her project hashtag: #KörnerfeldGalerie.
Körnerfeld Gallery in Ehrenfeld - Ehrenfeld is in My-Stadt-Köln
If I was Stella, I would consider adding: #MyEhrenfeld and #MyStadtKöln to my profiles as communities I associate with: Support Your Communities
Please Join In!
Whether Stella chooses to do so or not is completely up to her. Whether YOU consider using one or more community hashtags, either when sharing your photos or in your social bios, is also completely up to you.
As the community builds we will highlight more community content both in English and in German.
We are community. We are Cologne.
Think about it. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them in the comments.
