Idea From Original Forum... got legs?

[Dien Rice]

Hi everyone...

There's "gold" in them thar archives!

It might have been one of these posts, possibly...

• CD for people who want to know about your area
  
• Town on a Disk
  
• Make up a Town CD
  
• Town on a Floppy or CD

By the way, I've been thinking of starting a "best of" the archives type of compilation... It would be free, available on a separate web page here at Sowpub... Any thoughts on that? Good idea?

At the moment, to find the "gold" in the archives, you have to do some "digging"... This would make it a little easier...

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi everyone...

There's "gold" in them thar archives!

It might have been one of these posts, possibly...

• CD for people who want to know about your area
  
• Town on a Disk
  
• Make up a Town CD
  
  
• Town on a Floppy or CD

By the way, I've been thinking of starting a "best of" the archives type of compilation... It would be free, available on a separate web page here at Sowpub... Any thoughts on that? Good idea?

At the moment, to find the "gold" in the archives, you have to do some "digging"... This would make it a little easier...

Best wishes,

Dien

Thanks for the sites. My vote is YES, a very loud shout btw, for a "best of" compilation. This site is awesome all by itself and there is so much info a guy can readily use but adding a compilation would put it over the top in the forum world.

Tom

Voting YES, Dien! Loud and proud!

package up the "best of" -- and SELL IT! Christmas is coming up!

Cheers.

-- TW

1) Just put the video on a website + charge for advertising on the site (banners, etc.) and/or charge to put a 10-15 second COMMERCIAL right within the video.

2) If you are in an area with many different condo complexes for vacationers, you could do a video guide to the town AND all the different condo complexes. Then charge a real estate agency a big monthly fee to be the sponsor of the page. People who are considering buying a vacation condo see the listings already, in the usual ways -- but they really get no IN DEPTH info about the condo complexes, overall. I think that info would be very valuable to potential condo buyers -- so they are not shopping for a condo while being BLIND to the particular complex's features.

Cheers.

-- TW

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by -TW

package up the "best of" -- and SELL IT! Christmas is coming up!

Hi TW,

Others have suggested similar ideas (which I'm grateful for)...

However, it doesn't feel "right" to me to take the wisdom that so many people (such as yourself) have freely shared with everyone here, and repackage it in a "private" way for my own profit...

That's why I strongly like to provide this kind of thing (a "best of" the archives - probably provided via links to the original articles) for free, so everyone can benefit - as originally intended!

I do have some thoughts on how I'll implement this idea, and I'm doing a little "private experimenting" with this idea right now (on a separate, "test" website). If it looks like it will work out in a good way, I'll make it public... Or, alternatively, if it doesn't look like it will work well, I'll try to figure out another way...

So, I've already started the "ball rolling" behind the scenes, at least I've started experimenting (at a very early stage) on how it could work...

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi TW,

Others have suggested similar ideas (which I'm grateful for)...

However, it doesn't feel "right" to me to take the wisdom that so many people (such as yourself) have freely shared with everyone here, and repackage it in a "private" way for my own profit...

That's why I strongly like to provide this kind of thing (a "best of" the archives - probably provided via links to the original articles) for free, so everyone can benefit - as originally intended!

I do have some thoughts on how I'll implement this idea, and I'm doing a little "private experimenting" with this idea right now (on a separate, "test" website). If it looks like it will work out in a good way, I'll make it public... Or, alternatively, if it doesn't look like it will work well, I'll try to figure out another way...

So, I've already started the "ball rolling" behind the scenes, at least I've started experimenting (at a very early stage) on how it could work...

Best wishes,

Dien

Dien,

If you need any assistance w/the experiment let me know. I will do what I am able. This is too good of an idea to let expire.

Tom