[Ssf] Sheffield Social Forum

[R&A]

Dear Dan,
sticking to your enthusiasm, coming afloat from dee (pression), just now
to second you, particularly on point

TWO: SSF research

subclause Four, subverting, or

Subvertising – as you spell it.
Doubting between two, is it subverssive advertising to promote SSF what 
you were thinking about?
I'd love to join into any forms of that.


Wouldn't you benefit from a business plan for SSF, treating it as a 
profit company (i mean, applying same promotion strategies)???

How to make more active members?
Look harder at the customer base. See their undiscovered or unmet needs. 
Build a new business design (new forum design) to meet those needs.

b.The convergence curve notion

this might apply to SSF in competition with other forums (such as 100's 
from shef gov), organizations, charities, groups and political parties.

(words such as industry, company and industries have been replaced by 
forum) Profit here means new members, growth...))

As a new political forums start to ascend the curve, unexpected 
competitors from "other" sectors start to attract their customers.
The media start taking notice as the SSF forum for example move still 
higher on the curve. SSF begins to realize that the climb presents both 
problmes and new profit oppportunities, in equal measure.
Toward the top of the curve, a forum finds itself in a completely 
different game. It might well have been the leader in its own field, but 
now it must compete with quite impressive and aggressive leaders from 
other sectors, brought onto the field by the convergence process.
Usually, a radically new forum design is the key to success in the post 
convergence landscape.

(Here we could draw a chart entitled The Convergence Curve, showing 
converged and separate members evolution for SSF and other active groups 
in Sheffield)




bread, love & fantasy
Amp