Proposal - the use-revolution list

[Dan Shafer]

I have long been an advocate of user groups and discussion boards over  
mailing lists. I have spent a good part of my career studying and  
working in the field of online community and collaboration.

I'm in the process of opening a new site, as many of you know, to  
support my forthcoming three-eBook set on Revolution. It will be going  
live within another two weeks or so. I plan to ask RunRev at that point  
for permission to reflect this list into the discussion board. That  
would enable us to have the best of both worlds. The technology I'm  
using to build my discussion board and supporting site stuff is a  
combination of Hemingway (Chipp Walters' brilliant CMS) and Web  
Crossing (http://www.webcrossing.com). Web Crossing allows us to have  
discussions that you can not only subscribe to by email but participate  
in entirely through email using an NNTP (news) client if you prefer to  
participate that way.

The only thing that doesn't give us that I've seen a request for here  
is for the board to be hosted at RunRev. I'm not sure why that would be  
important, but I'm even open to that idea if it is really desirable.

My plan leaves this list in tact but allows you to view it in a  
discussion board context, participate via either the board or email,  
receive notification of updates (single or digest mode) via email, and  
yet do things like upload files for people to look at, attach images to  
posts, etc.

I'd be interested in feedback on this idea, either here or off-list to  
dan at shafermedia.com.


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Dan Shafer
Technology Visionary - Technology Assessment - Documentation
"Looking at technology from every angle"
http://www.eclecticity.com
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