Frontiering Talk

Lulu.com is changing the playing field for writers providing a complete publishing, printing and selling tool for writers ! It even manages the selling of your material in digital format!

This should help reduce the life cycle of many books and also provide a clever promotional outlet for many writers!

Sites specifically built around a local community are gathering popularity as the tools that allow self publishing of articles, photos are the like become mainstream.

2 examples are Backfence, and ibrattleboro

As broadband penetration reaches critical mass, it is not surprising that people are turning to the web as a place of community news. Most importantly, both of the examples above include a ratings process which rates articles, and local businesses.

What amazes me, is why more non-profit organisations such as local councils, hospitals churches and sporting clubs aren’t tapping into this medium to involve their respective community memberships to collaborate, discuss and share ideas?