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I want to start an on-going conversation among nonprofit arts management professionals around the world about networked economies and the implications for the arts. Is there a software that would best support this conversation? It is not a work team project, but rather a discussion that may be moderated. Thank yo
-- Mark Anderson (mrkandrsn@aol.com), December 02, 2000
Mark, the best one that I have seen is called WebBoard, see refer to the link below:http://webboard.oreilly.com/
You can set it up in many ways and if you go to the gallery pages at http://webboard.oreilly.com/wb4/wb4_gallery.cfm?GalleryArea=16
You can see how flexible it is and the features that make it a great community tool.
-- Mark Zorro (zorromark@consultant.com), December 03, 2000.
I have used (and am using) http://www.egroups.com/ for this kind of thing. The only assumption is that your group has email facilities of some kind.You can do moderation, as well as not. You can have multiple moderators and loads of other choices to configure.
In addition to that, the site provides you with a "home base" for the message archive, a calendar, shared files and more.
It is free if you accept a two-line commercial addition to every message. You can also pay for that not to happen.
One very nifty thing (and one you'll appreciate if you are on a good many mailing lists) is their filtering software that recognises built-up footers in replies-to-replies and strips them out.
See for yourself.
Schmolle
-- Peter Smulders (schmolle@pobox.com), December 05, 2000.