All, Let me give you a little insight into how I think of our little endeavor. When I first announced CZ in Sept. 2006, I thought, "We have an opportunity. Let's see what we can make of it." I was skeptical whether anything significant would come of it. I thought probably something would, but I was very prepared for disappointment. So I am actually pretty happy that not only are we surviving, we've been accelerating, and it looks like we can start 2008 with a bang, if we play our cards right.
Note, I say, "If we play our cards right." Here's another bit about how I think: a little exercise I like to put myself through occasionally, to keep myself thinking creatively, is this. For a moment, try to forget our accomplishments, trajectories, and plans. Imagine that this is the first day of a new CZ. Imagine you had come into exclusive control of the project. That would be a pretty exciting prospect, no? I mean, if you could develop it further, or change some things, and then all sorts of things would be possible, right? Right--that's what I say. It's just a matter of hitting on the right policy change, the right initiative, the right words of encouragement, etc. It merely requires creativity to think of new (or insufficiently realized) possibilities--and then the judgment to pick the best, and the hard work to make them realities. In that spirit, I ask you now for up to three new ideas about how to improve CZ. We want to ramp up writing, recruitment (both editors and authors), retainment of new recruits, and approval of articles. What are the most effective things we can do, in your opinion? I am not really interested so much in debate about this right now. I am much more interested in getting as many good ideas as possible. I don't mind if your idea is one that has already been out there...we've had many good ideas that we haven't had the time or motivation to act on, after all. So, please...brainstorm! Throw out some ideas. And don't read other people's ideas before you come up with your own, please. As you might guess, I have plenty of ideas of my own. But I prefer not to state mine, because my doing so might unduly influence what you say. So maybe write out your top ideas separately, and then paste them here [in the forums] when you're done. THEN read what others have said. Reply in the forums, here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1421.0.html --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
