Chris Wells

News list­ing This page is essen­tially inten­ded to be a basic local news­pa­per type of blog site with tag clouds, latest news, a head­line block and sub stor­ies sec­tions. Many ini­ti­at­ives may not have the journ­al­istic skills or man­power in order to exploit such a fea­ture but I per­son­ally believe this could be one of the most import­ant focuses

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Many exist­ing trans­ition sites (notice­ably those hos­ted on the Ning plat­form) offer their users a place to upload pho­to­graphs (and, by exten­sion any other digital imagery) so we think it’s a good idea to duplic­ate that func­tion­al­ity on our new site. Pho­tos are a great way to bring people back to a site as well as offer­ing them a simple

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Video list­ing A simple grid­ded list­ing sim­ilar to the Photo album page show­ing videos found by users. These videos will be hos­ted else­where on sites such as You­tube or Vimeo and the codes embed­ded into a post by a user. You can sort and fil­ter the list­ing of videos by vari­ous cri­teria on this page along with

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Links dir­ect­ory A require­ment for a links page was iden­ti­fied in our team – a place to both provide recom­mend­a­tions of local organ­isa­tions and busi­nesses, link to other part­ners and sim­ilar organ­iz­a­tions, provide more detail and fur­ther read­ing and also pos­sible allow other users to pub­li­cise their own groups. A tax­onomy and struc­ture need to be hammered out for this

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Dis­cus­sion threads list­ing This is a nor­mal forum-style list­ing of top­ics with sym­bols mark­ing hot, new, stale sticky and nor­mal top­ics. Some debate needs to be had over whether we need mul­tiple levels of top­ics inside topic con­tain­ers or whether a single unstruc­tured list­ing page would be adequate for the num­ber or diversity of top­ics we will

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