[ComCom] Re: [Tech] Interesting site redesign idea

[Eli Beckerman]

FYI, check out www.jillstein.org/gotdemocracyblog, including the policy
that was set up. I think there's an argument to be made for an
official GRP blog,
as well as an independent GreenMassGroup or something. (We could also
be more creative than that, but we don't have to!)

On 11/28/06, Colby Peterson <saphron at verizon.net> wrote:
> I think a Green blog should be independent of the party. In the sense
> that it is Green-leaning but officially non-partisan, like
> Bluemassgroup (BMG). I have been thinking of starting one up (its so
> easy these days), but I think it should have multiple editors (once
> again a la BMG).
>
> - Colby
>
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Eli Beckerman wrote:
>
> > Interestingly, this site uses a new idea called FairSource code
> > (basically outsourcing
> > with the fair trade model in mind). Their site was implemented by
> > ifPeople(www.ifpeople.net).
> >
> > I think a blog makes sense in addition to a new website. There are
> > lots of green blogs
> > out there (http://www.greencommons.org/greenbloggers/). And we would
> > be well-served by putting out an alternative to bluemassgroup.com with
> > a Green-Rainbow editorial perspective. We could consider a feature
> > that would let users rate postings and so important posts could
> > trickle up to a more prominent position, as well as editors having
> > that power.
> >
> > I agree it makes sense to consider first what we want the website to
> > do. And I hope
> > that ComCom can help in that regard.
> >
> > On 11/28/06, Jamie O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org> wrote:
> >> I was looking at sites that use plone, but don't look like they are
> >> using plone out of the box and I happened upon the Business Alliance
> >> for Local Living Economies (http://livingeconomies.org/).
> >>
> >> One thing I really liked about it was that two of the top of the
> >> three
> >> columns had a Featured ... section.  In this case they were Featured
> >> Network and Featured Entrepreneur.  The third column started with a
> >> two paragraph summary of what the organization is, how many people
> >> are
> >> associated with it and where they want to go.
> >>
> >> We might consider a similar layout with:
> >>
> >> o  left column having the summary followed by other stuff
> >> o  middle column having a featured local chapter or activist
> >> o  right column having our latest news/notice items
> >>
> >> just a thought.
> >>
> >> Jamie
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