[CIMC-working] Re: PROPOSED FEATURE: Northern Illinois Confederation of Peac

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:41, Garth Liebhaber wrote:
> Hello Doug, Ian and gang,
>     read through the discussion on proposed feature.  The point of the 
> article wasn't so much that a new group was formed as it was to give a sense 
> of what was going on west of 355.  This evening I added on a specific list 
> of group contacts with summaries of what each of those groups was up to. I 
> also have a few pics to add.  The Peace Confederacy- it's so weird to use 
> that word- is more akin to being called a Conference or the like.
>     Perhaps if there were regular articles being posted under the topic of 
> 'west of chicago metro actions', it would be easier to form it into a 
> feature under such.  as well as for chicago.  I've been encouraging folks 
> involved in groups to post articles on their events.  people are looking at 
> the site and warming up to it...
>      What do you say about making a  call to peace groups to  post articles 
> of their ongoing activities and forming it into a feature?  of course Dec. 
> 7th and 8th is coming up.  Perhaps this can be a good rallying point to 
> build around?  This could also be a good way to get participation/support of 
> the site if groups can see it as being for them.

I'm no good at this sort of stuff -- to what degree I'm involved in
content it's pretty much editorial, not journalistic (i.e., not doing
the hard work ;).  But if you and perhaps some other people are willing
to do this, that would be great.  Even better (as I think about it, much
better), if you can convince a few groups to post their own articles
summarizing what they are up too, compiling those would be a great
feature.  On the development/outreach side, getting groups to post stuff
on their own is probably our biggest goal.  If one of them is doing
something exciting, that can be a feature on its own.  If it's just a
simple update on what they're doing, a few together would be a fine
feature.

We also have done "week in review" features.  How often is based in part
on what's gone on, but also in large part on the effort of compiling
them and the energy of the person doing it.  Any of this stuff could be
part of a week in review feature.  If anyone is keeping track, a week in
review that's simply a list of links to CIMC-local/original content
would be good, and only require monitoring of the newswire.  (Such a
feature is obviously just a hack to get around the shortcoming of not
having a split wire, but until the wire is split it's useful).

  Ian