Ranti, I think that's a great idea. There are plenty of topics, like  
the ones you list, that I'm sure many of us could chime in on.

With these forums, they can either be readable by anyone or require  
people to log in with an MSU NetID to read. (In either case, people  
have to log-in to post.) I like the idea of being readable by the  
world. Other Web professionals at other institutions might benefit  
from the discussions.

Any other thoughts on this?

-drg

On May 19, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Junus, Ranti wrote:

> So, is there any interest in having webmasters forum at  
> forums.msu.edu?
> How useful you think it would be?
>
> My thought is the webmasters forum would be useful for sharing tips  
> and
> tricks, and discussions about the web guidelines as well as the  
> upcoming
> accessibility policy and best practices.  New webmasters in the future
> could peruse the content, staff/graduate assistants/faculty could stop
> by and ask questions (well, if they know the forum exists.)
>
> If such forum is desirable and created, I'm willing to volunteer to  
> be a
> mod.
>
>
> thanks,
> ranti.
>
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