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Authored by: Dirk on Sunday, January 05 2003 @ 03:03 PM EST

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Authored by: squatty on Sunday, January 05 2003 @ 06:26 PM EST

Yeah, I can see your point Bob. Ideally, the forums on my site are used for support or how-to type questions. Stories are specific to a given news topic or general announcements.

One idea (which I've seen on http://www.cws.ws) is to create links to dynamically start a forum thread for a given article. This is a great example of how the to merge the two apps.

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Authored by: bobtreu on Sunday, January 05 2003 @ 11:48 PM EST

I understand the need for a front page presentation of some, but not all, articles. That could be accomplished by having one or more forums that are moderated, or are open only to certain members of a group that are allowed to post.

The "articles" that fit the criteria set up by the admin would be shown on the forum, and on the blog.

I don't know if geeklog handles newsletters, but phpWebsite has a plugin for newletters that use a third set of tables to assemble and mail out email newsletters to subscribers.

It seems to me that these are all the same thing. Shouldn't it be one set of data, but three different ( newsletter, blog and discussion ) ways of distributing it?

I'd also throw in online books as being implementable the same way. Create a forum with chapters as postings, then sort by chapter order and present as a book.

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Authored by: Tony on Monday, January 06 2003 @ 11:14 AM EST

I agree with Dirk here. On iowaoutdoors.org the articles are for 'news-worthy notes' and require moderation to ensure quality. The forums is a place where members can interact at will.

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