Rust Belt Economy Posts

[john morris]

I sort of threw the idea out there of having member bloggers each put up a post related to regional economic developments, views and opportunities with the idea of creating an evolving portait of the crisis as well and the chance to see it from different localities and perpectives.

What I have in mind would be simultaneous posts on the same day to give a snapshot and might evolve into a monthly, or quarterly series.

Any thoughts about this idea?

[Sean Posey]

I like your idea. How would the discussion be divided?

[john morris]

Really have no idea. Mostly what I was thinking of was that posts each be on the members idividual blogs with some kind of link page tying things up on Rust Belt Bloggers.

[Tony Budak]

Hey Folks,
Excellent concept---wrong information technology. I suggest that someone set up a forum. The tech that I like best is the bulletin board structure and layout. Many techies use this type, check out this for an example, Inside of each board main subject members can establish their own topic threads, see http://www.aota.net/forums/ and see http://www.clnews.org/forums/index.php

Cheers,
Tony

[john morris]

I don't think I'm articulating it well or that I do know very much about web technology, but I think there are several strong reasons why my concept might be better.

At this point, this social network has far too few members or activity to likely support a rich dialog. It desperately needs more members and more awareness in the wider world. Individual posts that link here would help create a dialog and cross polination between each of the seperate blog audiences and Rust Belt Bloggers. People could find the post and follow it to this site.

I also am picturing something more free form than a direct, simple, linear discussion on an "issue", like stimulus or trade. This format allow for long detailed and individualised posts that hopefully would create a growing portait of whats going on.

[Tony Budak]

Never Mind