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

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2"
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
 
> The 'browse' idea is different - it is intended to give people a much 
> better idea of the scope of the content, and needs a good deal more 
> editorial thought. Essentially, it seems to me that at the second 
> edit stage, we are going to have to take the bunch of posts under any 
> particular heading, and manually go through them and decide on a sub-
> set of headings appropriate to each category.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. I'm also thinking that it will be
much easier than this first stage.  I hope.


> I do despair, but also recognise that people won't use this thing 
> unless it is laid out in an interesting enough way that they can't 
> argue that it should be their first point of call *before* posting 
> some question.

Part of the problem must be that so many get individual emails or
daily digests, and they rarely if ever look at the home page.  I'm
thinking we may have to do some promoting ourselves.  For instance,
whenever a post begins 'Has anyone ever thought of the idea that...'
or 'I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but...', one
of us is going to have to reply onlist with a link to the catalogue
and a suggested search keyword or two.  It wouldn't hurt, especially
at first, if we trolled the thing for our own pet subjects, and posted
any worthwhile ideas that we had, carefully noting how we'd searched
the catalogue for our material.

Anne