[sustran] Re: Extending Sustran

[Carlosfelipe Pardo]

Hi Eric,

I think Facebook is good as a social networking site, but not as an 
archive of discussions. I love the fact that I can search something in 
the sustran archive, because many people are always giving many useful 
links or anecdotes or references that sometimes I've needed to support 
an argument. Facebook wouldn't have that capability, I think it is too 
ephemeral for these discussions... unless we want to have ephemeral 
discussions, in which case I'd suggest we do a Facebook page for that 
purpose.

Carlos.

On 24/08/2012 06:18 a.m., eric britton wrote:
> Dear Sustraners,
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> Here's an idea which I put before you for your comments and suggestions. It
> involves a Facebook Sustran Global South page which we set up at
> http://www.facebook.com/groups/worldstreets/  and which we propose as a
> possible complement to the original Sustran-Discuss site launched in the
> late nineties at  http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss. I
> personally have no fixed ideas on this, but let me share with you my
> thoughts.
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> Hate or love Facebook we at least are finding that it is a valuable tool and
> part of our overall communications strategy.  The software behind the pages
> that we work with is being steadily improved, and we are finding it a lot
> more efficient than the Yahoo Groups fora that we started to set up already
> in the mid-nineties.  I like that it permits the easy exchange of images,
> photographs, and videos , as well as handling html pretty well, all of which
> makes a nice addition.
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> The popular original Sustran-Discuss Forum offers a fine collaborative
> platform for exchanging information, ideas and comments and serves us well
> for peer exchanges in matters involving specifically sustainable transport
> in the Global South for more than a dozen years now. But as we have seen in
> linking the main World Streets site (www.WorldStreets.org) to a parallel
> Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/worldstreets, there is good
> potential for creative interaction between the two which increases both the
> reach and the depth of the discussions. The W/S Facebook page, for example,
> currently brings in an additional 1453 (as of this morning)  cogent minds to
> the issues.
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> Today and without really trying we have a modest 67 members on the Sustran
> page, but it is at least a start.   Again, my hope is that the two devices
> will enhance and support each other.
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> I look forward to your reactions and suggestions on this.  If you have
> questions, let me try to answer them here or directly to me via
> eric.britton at ecoplan.org.
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> Eric Britton
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