OBE journal facility for forum members?

[Pi]

This is so strange!. I have just been setting up a blog for a charity a couple of days ago - and introduced them to a very similar Snitz forum to this one too!

From what I have seen group blogs seem to work best for fairly small groups of people (the charity was just 20) who are constantly sharing information while acting as independent agents.

I think this is because some people blog almost continously; others contribute several pages worth every couple of days etc. Some contribute nothing but links. It can make group blogs a bit weird to read!

It might be interesting to have a commenting system, where people can comment on entries. I am playing an ASP-based one called blogcomments (available from noipo.org) on a new blog I am starting
http://www.tanasen.co.uk/blog/blogger.asp feel free to add comments - its just a test zone at the moment.

Another idea might be to start small blogging groups, say open to 20 people at a time, then be able to watch how different groups gell / produce results.

http://www.blogroots.com/chapters.blog/id/4 is a great article on the effects of blogs.

The other thing that might be interesting is to have an in-depth form where people could fill in say several dozen multiple choice questions. I am getting involved in neural network software - this is great for helping find patterns in data. It could be a very exciting on-going research project!

Pi

[SteppenWolf]

Er... I really meant people using their own individual Blogger or else as you say it would be too confusing.  So you might see someone mentions that they AP a lot, you check their profile , see there is a blogger linked and find that they have recorded some of the ones they were happy enough to share.  

Cheers!  http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

[SteppenWolf]

Hi Adrian -

Any thoughts on having an area of the forum (perhaps linked off the individual member profiles) where people can create a sort of journal to chronologically put in all their OBE experiences which they'd like to share?  

Obviously the Wiki idea had problems, though now I think about it... the absolutely simplest idea might just be to let people know that if they're interested in setting up a journal, all they need to do is use a Blogger service like http://www.blogger.com and link to it from a cool link on their profile page.  Or if you can edit the profile form a bit, you cold just add another URL textbox with a label like "OBE Journal".

Use of a Blogger would mean that you don't need to install any more s/ware and each member can create a publically accessible OBE journal if they feel like it so that people can easily browse through.  Just I don't think anyone much knows how they could share them at the moment, even if they wanted to.

Always keen to add functionality...  

Cheers,
Richard