Re: UKNM: Communities: Fact or Fiction!

[Paul Sanders]

Re: below


We manage something like this at http://www.knowhere.co.uk/ From our side

it's all web forms, databases, customer service and content management. And

our experience is that user moderation of content works only up to a point.


Cheers


Paul


>At 12:26 pm +0100 on 30/7/99, Charles Linn wrote:

>

>>How about if you give each local group a Content Management System

>>driven web area, with common key areas such as 'members list',

>>'discussion area', 'Campaigning reports', 'Events', 'useful links',

>>etc...  You make one group member, probably the secretary, responsible

>>for entering and keeping up the content, and you get all of the groups

>>to fill in their details in the listed areas, and then you aggregate all

>>the content into a supersite, summarizing all the local campaigning

>>going on in the UK and all the info relevant to it.  Now what do you

>>have?

>

><slight aside>

>Even better is an easily editable page system - like TBL envisioned when

>he created the HTTP protocol.

>

>Things like Third Voice go a little of the way there, but programs such as

>wikiwiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki

>and

>webwebx http://prtims.stx.com/webwebx/index.html

>revolutionise community spaces such as those suggested.

>

>c.



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