Blog for Convention – how to make it interactive
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We’ve used WordPress to communicate to our members about our annual event; workshops, speakers, schedule, etc. We’ve also encourage event participants to visit the blog so that they could coordinate themselves for carpooling and hotel room sharing.
The feedback we’ve received is that our blog was not easy to navigate and was generally not organized effectively. Is anyone aware of a good blog that achieves these same objectives? I’m new to ‘blogging,’ so I would simply take ideas from other, more effective, blogs.
Thanks for any reference or advice you can provide.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Can you give us a direct link to the blog in question, starting with http:// so that we can see if you are in the right forum?
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You might want to consider setting up an Internet forum that would be a link to your blog confererence site. A forum would be easier for membership/conference attendees to I’ve already looked at buddypress and P2 by WordPress which look abit limiting (but ) maybe suitable for your organizationbut I understand there are other free Internet forum software engage in group communication on various topics/arrangements. Just make sure you have a staff/a volunteer to moderate to kick out forum trolls and spammers.
The other option is to set up an Internet listserv –abit old-fashioned but if it’s just simple stuff like arranging car rides, etc….
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Creating the forum looks even more complicated than setting up the blog. This is much more difficult than I imagined
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Setting up a free online forum is not that difficult. ProBoards advertising says they are the internet’s largest free forum host with over 3 million forums created and 10 million monthly visitors.
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Keep number of categories small, but think broadly to help facilitate building your virtual online communities. After all, non-conference attendees might want to participate. Be prepared for that.
And test, test with just a tiny group and don’t get anal about being perfect on tiny details on lst pass design among your test group.
I’m seeing some interesting stuff on co-ed vs. women-centred forums in terms of how they are moderated and virtual culture.
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