DeafCoffee.com
31 10 2004
How did DeafCoffee.com become one of the greatest website in America?
Hosting deaf chat coffee in Texas is not common more two years ago.
Originally, Brenden’s wife Cindy (both moved here from California) worked for real estate at this time and needed to create network in deaf community in North Dallas area. She decided to use idea for hosting deaf chat coffee which is very common in California and started one near my house at Buckingham Road & Plano Road in Richardson near Garland. It was born 1st deaf chat coffee in Texas.
Of course, it was popular instantly with help from Deaf Network of Texas mailing list. We’ve been doing it for about one year. We don’t have deaf chat coffee website at this time. When Cindy left her job in real estate for another opportunity – we still want to keep it alive. Same time, there’s couple of other people want to have one closer to their place such as Fort Worth, Mesquite, etc.
Finally, we launched DeafCoffee.com website in April 2003 – it was designed by Sam Dunn. Later on, we asked Steven Whitworth to join us to help maintain website. Texas alone have close to 20 deaf chat coffee event – it just grew like crazy in 2nd year. Of course, California still has more than anywhere in United States. I am not complaining about it – but instead Brenden and I were focus on spread everywhere in United States. We did achieved 24 states with at least one deaf chat coffee event in every states and we have total over 75 events in those 24 states as of November 2004. We already have one in Hawaii!
Today, we proudly announce that DeafCoffee.com website have been re-designed to keep it exciting and fresh looking. Same time, we added more features such as mailing list, gallery, FAQ and request form online.
We predicate that DeafCoffee.com will become an important piece in every deaf community everywhere. With due respect of declined with deaf club and another deaf-related activities, it may be biggest reason why DeafCoffee.com become their all-time favorite. I am talking about every town in every state. How many towns do we have in United States? There’s thousands of them where they normally get together at mall, restaurant, street spot, church, etc. – don’t forget CI user, hard of hearing, ASL students, enthusiasts, relatives, out of town goers, and others will enjoy it the minute they enter Starbucks or another coffee place.
There’s many advantage to it:
1. Non-smoking environment.
2. Many people love to drink coffee these days.
3. Closer to home.
4. Able to bring children.
5. Easy to host your own one near your home. No experience required!
6. Comfortable chairs and playing game
7. Able to get Internet online on your own laptop.
8. Closed at midnight or earlier – no more staying up late.
9. Save your gas bills.
10. Meeting new friends and hugging old friends!
To learn more about DeafCoffee.com:
http://www.deafcoffee.com
To view DeafCoffee.com Photo Gallery
http://gallery.deafcoffee.com
To sign up DeafCoffee.com Newsletter:
http://newsletter.deafcoffee.com
To view DeafCoffee.com FAQ:
http://www.deafcoffee.com/whatisdcc.html
To request your own DeafCoffee.com event:
http://www.deafcoffee.com/add_dcc.html
To view Deaf Network announcement:
http://www.deafnetwork.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?flavor=archive&id=20041101041428&list=dn
say “hey” to Steven for me! haven’t seen that guy since Ringo.com
as for Deaf Coffee…I think it’s a fab idea! it’s something that will catch on within other Deaf communities in other states