What's wrong with ~GO!

[WIREMAN]

~GO!....it started out awesome, yet now I'm thinking it's played it's self out. Only posters are me & ST these days, it's kinda futile if nobody shows interest, just wondering what everyone thinks??????

[Doreen Peri]

Invite your friends.

[mnaz]

hey Mark...

Yeah, I wondered that, too. I've been meaning to check it out,
but I haven't had much internet access in the last 8-9 months.
Maybe when I get my new apartment set up...

[judih]

yeah, i know. maybe cause i'm rushing through the net so much. barely time to check e-mails and tribe a message. The joys of leisure jamming come infrequently. Lots of reasons - kids are on the computer when i come home from school and i get on only a few minutes before we go to the kibbutz dining room for our soup and salad dinner. Homework helping and then total kaput brain situation.

Not much energy is left over.

but...word jams are special occasions. They loom in the distance like an oasis in the middle of the desert.

Go is still a great thing, and yes, doreen's right. Maybe it's time to invite friends and acquaintances and stir up some new winds in these weeping willows.

(i'll play the part of the willow)

j

[Doreen Peri]

Mark,

As I said in a previous post I made on the GO! forum itself when you were asking why the forum was so slow, it takes a long time to build an internet community which has active members on a daily basis. We were lucky we have grown so quickly but yeah, some of the forums are very slow, including the GO! forum. Some have had little to no activity in months and we're considering archiving them. Maybe there are too many forums?

We have our Word Jams and send out email announcements to invite people, but even emailing 250 or so members, we still only get 10-15 participants every time. Sometimes less.

I've been in the marketing field for quite a few years and getting the word out has always been about consistency and repetition. The announcements help bring people to the site and let people know about what word jamming is. Some will come and notice the GO! forum. From here on out, I can include a link to the GO! forum in the email announcements to the planned jams, also, letting people know that there are on-going word jams going on here and that they are invited to participate whether or not they can make it to the scheduled jam. That might help some.

The largest, most successful companies know that the bulk of their business comes from word of mouth. This goes for internet communities, also. Those which have the most activity have been online for longer and members tell their friends about them. They send links to each other and that's how people learn about their existence.... much moreso than search engines or anything else.

Here's another idea....I'd like to see all members who have pages on this site send out links to their pages to their friends because from there, people can hit the Discussion link and end up here. The more often people send out links to their friends, the better the possibility of spreading the word that we are here. If you particularly love word jamming and the GO! forum, mention it in emails and link to it! That could help!

Would you like to be a moderator of the GO! forum? I can set that up for you. Then you and I can talk about different methods we might use to spread the word about the on-going Word Jams. Please let me know, ok? Thanks! .... and thanks for your enthusiasm about the site!

[WIREMAN]

Hi Doreen.......just trying to stir up a lil discussion with regards to my favorite forum. I'm starting my own Rebar buisiness right now, so taking on another responsibility isn't a good idea with regards to being a moderator, thanks for the offer though.......

[Doreen Peri]

Your own rebar business? Very cool! Congratulations! Best of luck with it!

I understand completely. I have taken on many responsibilities myself on top of my regular work. Time is limited for all of us... (which could be part of the reason why the GO! forum is slow, also, as judih said).

Thanks for helping by putting the link to the GO! forum in your emails (not a moderator responsibility or anything... just helping to spread the word!). Hope to see it pick up soon!

[stilltrucking]

On Bullshit is a very interesting book
I am waiting for a sequel
On Cowshit

[Doreen Peri]

This book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 5?v=glance

Sounds interesting.

What's it have to do with the GO! forum?

Just curious.

[WIREMAN]

i'm more interested in that freakonomics book!

[stilltrucking]

Yes Freakonomics
I heard him on radio show. Sounded good. I would love too read it to. To tell you the truth On Bullshit is a catchy title but kind of boring. On Cowshit, would make a much more interesting read.

Good luck mark. I had my own business for a while. It was great except I had such a lazy boss. No discipline.

[mtmynd]

It wasn't until some weeks ago that I learned "Go!" was an action poetry-type board. I never knew what it was before that. I've been usiing "Creative Writing" for my... er, creative stuff. Am I, (or was I), alone in that ass-umption?

[WIREMAN]

hey cecil....come on over and give ~GO! a try....it's kinda like a mixture of action poetry and the game.........

[Doreen Peri]

It wasn't until some weeks ago that I learned "Go!" was an action poetry-type board. I never knew what it was before that. I've been usiing "Creative Writing" for my... er, creative stuff. Am I, (or was I), alone in that ass-umption?

I'm probably too brief in my forum descriptions.
All it says is "GO!~ Word Jams"

We wanted to keep the page as clean as possible.... you know... less is more for the text... so the changing banners pop out more.

Anyway, it's always been there for ongoing word jams.

I'm glad Mark posted this topic. If you didn't know it was there, maybe others didn't know either.

Hope to see ya jammin there, Cecil!

(I just added "On-going" to the description so now it says "On-going Word Jams". Any better ideas about how to describe the forum are welcome.)

[stilltrucking]

Cecil

As judih said of litkicks they are going with the philosphy of less is more. I almost stopped posting to GO when I read it was Action Poetry. I thought it was a place to just GO GO GO let it rip, let it howl, just punch those keys in a spontaneous stream.

Live and learn, well at least live

"When you read Zen literature," says Sher, "you must read each sentence with a fresh mind." And so should you write. "The real work of writing is, day after day, to discover how to maintain freshness." To do so, Sher advises (among other things) a single-minded focus, a daily writing period, sitting with a straight spine, and "letting words fall freely, without editing or censuring." By doing so, says Sher, your body "gives birth ... to what you never expected, predicted, could have thought up." Only then, adds Sher, should you revise. And when you do, revise boldly. "As Suzuki-roshi used to say about getting up when the alarm rings," she says, "'Never make the same decision twice.'" --Jane Steinberg

Letting words fall freely, without editing or censuring." By doing so, says Sher, your body "gives birth ... to what you never expected, predicted, could have thought up.
One Continuous Mistake : Four Noble Truths for Writers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 3?v=glance

Cecil do you think women's farts smell worse than men's farts?

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