Re: [cms-list] A CMS Forum [was Am I stupid? ]

Michael,

Although a few veterans can easily get along by searching their email 
archives, I believe a lot of people would like to see a complementary 
version of this list where topics are organized, so they can interact 
with older messages,  and where they can get other information like CMS 
news feeds/aggregation, perform searches, etc.

So I have spent a while selecting a community software package (drupal) 
and harvesting some of the better messages from cms-list to seed a new 
website - http://www.cms-forum.org.

It will allow some of the more experienced cms-listers to become 
creators of forums and topics, moderators of posts (rating them as does 
Slashdot, so the average visitor sees the best stuff up front), and 
perhaps columnists with their own weblog presence at CMS Forum.

Anyone can join, and lurkers can hide behind the Anonymous poster. The 
system hides email addresses a bit better than Mailman software.

The challenge for us is to coordinate cms-forum.org and cms-list.org so 
they complement one another.

We are researching drupal's mail list integration capabilities..

I hope you like http://www.cms-forum.org and find it useful. Thanks for 
suggesting it. Now I hope you and other cms-listers will criticize it 
and help us hammer it into shape.

Bob.

Cooch, Michael wrote:

>This list has really been an excellent source of best practices and
>experiences for me while implementing a CMS for a UK-based central
>government department. 
>
>I also think the list supervisors do a sterling job and I have a quick
>thought on how we can possibly add value to an already excellent resource,
>unless I am incredibly stupid and this is already happening somewhere on the
>cms-list.org site that I can not seem to locate!.
>
>Firstly a few observations:
>
>(1) New list members often ask the same questions that have been answered or
>discussed in depth on a previous thread. Because of this I have found a
>general malaise in answering the same questions again and again by the list
>population;
>
>(2) All postings go to all list members which means there are a number of
>subject threads I receive that I have no interest in; and
>
>(3) Recently the list traffic has increased dramatically (no doubt due to
>the quality of discussion thats going on - I just came back to my desk to
>find over 50 e-mails from the list!
>
>Unless I am mistaken (it has been known to happen) I believe this is an
>e-mail list rather than a discussion forum (which generates e-mails to list
>members).
>
>Would it be possible, with all the CMS expertise out there, to move the
>e-mailing list into a forum structure with multiple subject areas. This
>would then:
>
>(1) Any new subscribers would immediately be able to identify their areas of
>interest and archived discussions to their issue;
>
>(2) We can all choose which threads we participate in; and
>
>(3) It means we all don't receive a large quantity (all high quality of
>course!) of e-mails into our inbox, which at best takes a long time to read
>and at worst is deleted (even though there may be potential for a useful
>contribution.
>
>Just a few thoughts,
>
>Michael Cooch.
>  
>
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