Re: UKNM: Communities: Fact or Fiction!

[Chris Heathcote]

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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