Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Seltzer <seltzer@acunet.net>
Subject: Chat reminder -- building business communities, Thursday, April 16 



BUSINESS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB  -- Where "word of keystroke" begins

Please join us this Thursday, April 16, for a continuation of our
discussion on how to build business communities, focusing on how to build
audience?  what is the optimum size?  how to manage large numbers of
people on-line at reasonable cost?  how to tie a community to your
business? and related matters.

Meanwhile the spin-off chat program devoted to distance education looks
poised to start.  Those who expressed interest in running it will be
meeting today in the Web-net chat area (in the signon area, 
in the "Chat Room" line, click on the down arrow next to "Richard
Seltzer's Chat" and select "Distance Education") today (Tuesday, April 14)
from noon to 1 PM, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4). All are welcome to join
and/or to send me followup email with your related thoughts.

In last week's session (on building communities) one of the most
intriguing ideas was the possibility of combining the capability of
Listservs and Forums, for low-bandwidth threaded interaction.
The edited transcript of that session is now available at
http://www.samizdat.com/chat77.html
The main threads of discussion were:
-- the role of Listservs (good for low-bandwith and low-tech "push," and
possible tie-in with Forums
-- AltaVista Forum
-- Using applications to add value to community
-- Digital' Equipment's effort to create business communities (what does
it take?  importance of the moderator)
-- spin-off distance ed chat?
-- Amazon.com

As usual, connect to http://www.web-net.org from 12 noon to 1 PM
Eastern Time (GMT -4) on Thursday and click on "Richard
Seltzer's Chat".  (Please keep in mind that the US recently shifted to 
Daylight Savings Time.  So while before we were at GMT
-5, now we're be at GMT -4).

You can see transcripts of previous chat sessions at
http://www.samizdat.com/#chat

And please continue to send me your followup messages for inclusion with
the transcripts.

Best wishes.

Richard Seltzer
seltzer@samizdat.com

PS -- You can sign up to receive the transcripts by email
(courtesy of Coo!a Free Webzine Carrier). Just enter your email address in
the form at http://www.samizdat.com/#chat