> Hi Keith,
> The NTW and the Co-operator addresses might be useful in promoting your
> interests once we start to promote those two forums, but the Hope Street
> forum is for a very local audience (residents and near neighbours of Hope
> Street Blaxland.

> When I responded to your Community Builders plea for help it was my idea
> for you to think about whether you could do in Armidale what I was doing for
> Hope Street - set up your own local forum with an events calendar that would
> be of interest beyond your own interest group. As well as providing this
> public service, the spin-off for your own group would be that you might be
> able to reach a bigger audience in and around Armidale - that was what you
> said in Community Builders was your objective.

> If you set up your own local forum you can decide how the forum will work
> ... whether the public will have partial or total control over the forums
> features, whether they will just be able read and post messages, whether
> they will be able to do so only as members or whether also as non members.

> I use the pages on our forums to empower visitors to do their own
> neighbourhood things. In doing this I hope to not only promote the forum and
> connect neighbours to cooperate for positive activities but also to promote
> the processes for non hierarchical (co-operative) empowerment ... the local
> calendar idea, the principles of the Co-operator (see 'Thinking Behind the
> Co-operator). At some stage it may be good to let others add to the pages,
> but for now their purpose is simply for me to be able to promote the
> process.

> So you are welcome to keep posting to the 3 forums, but to get connected
> with your own regional audience, my recommendation was that you think about
> the applicability of what we are doing.

> This wasn't a purely generous offer on my part - I was hoping that if you
> have any constructive criticism or brilliant insights you would share them.
> Do you have anything to offer?
> Regards
> Chris

> > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:19:23 -0700
> > Subject: A New Page?
> > From: historicaltrek...@gmail.com
> > To: co-operator@googlegroups.com

> > What are the pages for? When does one need to use a new page?
> > Le loup.

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