[sustran] Extending Sustran
eric britton
eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Fri Aug 24 20:18:54 JST 2012
Dear Sustraners,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eric Britton
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