Content Needs Volunteers

Content Needs Volunteers

July 12th, 2006

The technical upgrade may be wrapping up this migration phase, but our content needs are ongoing. In some ways, this move complicates things since we now need to make sense of of our new communication channels.

One of the first orders of business is to set up an online meeting time for organization members interested in helping shape 3rd Party in the near future. In the meantime, here is a top-o’-my-head list of needs for content on our new site:

• Bloggers — following and commenting on news of interest, and also on the platform development process
• Researchers — pose and help answer key political questions through primary and secondary research, posting results on PoliticWiki
• Position Statements — building on our growing political research, author position statements grounded in real-world need and experiences
• Link Managers — check our old list of political organizations and resources and help convert them into their new home (in this blog, as a page in the site)
• Essayists — our existing essays need to be migrated from our wiki spaces to the more permanent and protected blog pages, but we also are looking for writers to create 800-1000 word essays to stimulate conversation
• Template Designers — although we feel this current design is a major step up over the old circa-1998 web template we have been using, we are hoping to form a committee to help design another upgrade for this fall (major or minor)
• Topic Leaders — our forum, wiki, chat and blog needs some short-term focus to help stimulate the community into action. We are looking for some volunteers to suggest and spearhead discussions for a week at a time.

If interested, please contact Jeff or myself, or make use of the forums available here to make your presences known. Thanks.

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