[IMC-UK-Features] Proposal to link to orginal regional articles in Features

[maqui]

Hello

Opps this proposal from phunkee escaped my radar completely!

On Friday, February 29, 2008, at 01:47  pm, phunkee wrote:

>  I'd like to propose that when we write features on
> the imc-uk site, we try and link to articles on regional sites rather
> than directing people to the same content on imc-uk. Imagine an imc-uk
> feature about a day of action with multiple reports from the regions. 
> If
> we just aim to add links to those regional sites where the content
> originated from, then that would help direct readers to regional imc's.
> This might help people realise that imc-uk is comprised of different
> regional collectives rather than just the imc-uk site.

>
> Could we give this proposal a week for discussion?

I agree with that, and in fact I have often done just that when I've 
put a feature together. It makes complete sense to me to link more to 
the regional sites. This not only will help promoting the regional 
projects, but it will also reinforce the fact that IMC-UK is made of a 
network of imc websites. Having said that, how will this work if local 
kollectives use other cms's than mir, i don't know.

For example right now you can't tick York, Scotland or Bristol when 
publishing through the IMC_UK publishing form. Nor I think you can tick 
uk when publishing from one of these imc's publish pages. The London 
lot are also currently playing with a different cms (more on this when 
the idea is more developed) ... so I guess at some point the UK network 
will need to re-address the functionality of the IMCUK start page, or 
at least how to feed or syndicate content from one cms to another. But 
I don't have a clue about these matters, so I leave it here for now :-)

Cheers
maqui