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Hey Everybody,

Still trying to work out the logistics of making the site interesting, engaging and, most importantly, useful.  I’ll layout the aspects I’ve thought of here.  I want your feedback on what features would matter the most to you.  I’m treating this like the ‘first biz idea’ that I want to share with you guys so let me know what you think about the items below and anything I haven’t covered.  No promises that I can get it all done, but I will look into ideas and try to implement the ones that make sense and don’t require a development team.

WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THIS?

While we work out these details, I’ll keep the blog at this jregistre.com address.  I’m not sold on it as the longterm name, but I didn’t want to wait to put the site up.  I got a domain called “cosigned.co” that I thought was pretty cool, but am still debating mentally.  I wanted a short, easy URL that suggested collaboration and cosigned was available.  Let me know what you think, I may do a whole post on this piece, brainstorming a name could be a fun discussion.  Let me know what you think.

IS THIS A BLOG?

For now, it is, but that’s because a blog is a quick and easy way to get up and running.  But as we figure out how to organize things to make them useful, there are other features that we could consider if things evolve to evaluate business ideas as we’ve discussed in the past:

– Profiles: to catalog the ideas we each post, areas/industries of interest, skillsets we have, skillsets we want, and other things that don’t overlap with other social media profiles

– Surveys: Collecting feedback on all sorts of stuff

– Document Storage: Posting infographics, presentations, models or other stuff that’s not just text based

– Other stuff: Let me know

WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT?

My biggest concern is that I’ll pick topics no one cares about (like an upcoming post about what Capitalism should mean at a governmental level).  I’d like for this site to be “A forum for Entrepreneurs to discuss business strategy, tactics, economics and news” in tagline form.  That’s pretty broad, let me know if the economics piece is boring, the biz strategy piece is overdone, you debate your news elsewhere, etc.

Our best bet may be to just see where it goes and I hope you guys will be a part of that by commenting on posts and contributing your own.

WHAT WOULD MAKE FOLKS COMFORTABLE SHARING IDEAS?

Personally, I’m not too concerned about sharing my ideas, but everybody may not feel the same way.  For those more concerned, do you have ideas about what would make you comfortable?

If it turns out that your not concerned about this at all, let me know too.

HOW TO COLLECT ENOUGH FEEDBACK?

What, I think, will make the site impactful is feedback to posts on the site.  To start, we can use the blog comments section to keep things organized, but here are some of my thoughts for other formats to collect commentary:

– Instead of – or in addition to – comments at the end of the post, we can include surveys.   For instance, if we want opinions about what the next step in a project should be, including checkboxes or radial buttons at the bottom of the post for folks to vote on it

– Emailing in posts or comments for those who don’t want to deal with ‘blog stuff’.  I’m happy to post anything people send me with a “Dave says…” type intro, and if this is easier for folks, I’ll look into automating it if it becomes a pain.

– What else?

ARE A COUPLE POSTS A MONTH ENOUGH?

Most of you know that I’m a bit terrible keeping to a schedule, but this site could be awesome if we stay engaged.  I’m hoping we’ll get some lively discussion.  To make sure there’s a reason to come back with some regularity, I am going to try to post twice a month.  No set schedule, but I think that’s a pace I can keep and beat as I get more comfortable writing.