What's the best way of getting people to use this catalogue ?

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy Willson" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> Well, there may be a difference between "why" we are making the 
catalogue and "why or how" the members use it.  Going back and 
reading what someone else said is interesting, but it isn't a 
discussion.  And some of theses topics have so many posts it may be 
overwhelming to some readers. 
> 

Carolyn:
Yes, I agree. I'm not trying to squash all the posts in a particular 
category into five or six sub-sets, but I thought it would be 
interesting to pull out some particular big themes, so the posts 
related to those sub-categories are easier to read through, and might 
also stimuate further discussion.

For instance, I've just created a new category 'Harry's dreams' as a 
sub-set under Harry, alongside 'Harry's eyes'. 

I think the way the users might access these posts is that they could 
just click on eg 'Harry', and get all the posts coded to Harry, all 
the 1000s of them, and read all of them if they wanted from start to 
finish.

But if they clicked on a sub-category, then they would just get that 
selection to read through.

This would mean that we would have to be sure that all the posts in 
the sub-set were always also coded to the main head - in this case, 
Harry.

I am particularly keen this happens as a way of managing the 
theories. For instance, half the Snape theories are about who he was 
supposed to have been in love with. I would find it extremely useful 
to have them all under a 'Snape's dates' sub-head, together with the 
rest of the posts which are on the same theme, but not related to a 
named theory. 

Remember (Kelly), it's not taking any post out of the system, just 
giving additional snapshots on how to view them as an incentive to 
browsing.

Carolyn