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Hi FLF folks, need your help... especially @MJ DeMarco
I volunteered to help a local charity, likely will take a seat on their board. Excited is an understatement for how I feel about this one.
This charity has been around for over 20 years and supplies curriculum to schools that is 100% entrepreneurship based. Yes, it is recognized and is a plug in for our typical education here and applies to grades 4 to 11. Imagine that, kids playing entrepreneurs and actually making real money doing it, while earning a grade in school.
What I think is missing is a centralized place on the internet for these kids to meet other kids from other schools. Some of them have become successful entrepreneurs already etc. I look at this place, the FLF @MJ DeMarco created and it's where lots of people get help! @Andy Black helped me with a new software that I am rolling out at my office - Basecamp, as the most recent example. There are too many to list. This is what gave me the idea for this charity, they need an online space that is exclusively for the kids that went though this program - to create a forum for them.
But I have no idea what it takes to create a forum. I assume it's a ton of work and I know MJ is here daily to ensure it functions as intended. I see lots of challenges.
This is why I am posting this and asking for your help with your thoughts and experiences. Here is what I think are "steps" or "challenges"
Any thoughts, ideas, help - all is welcome. Thanks in advance.
P.S. I will not be personally creating a forum, not enough knowledge or time. I'll want to hire someone to help me get it done. Might even have paid moderators etc.
P.P.S. @MJ DeMarco if it is inappropriate to ask on your forum how to create another forum, let me know and I'll delete this thread. I felt it wasn't a conflict because of the nature of 4th to 11th grade students being quite different from audience here and I'd want it locked only to those members, not open to the public.
I volunteered to help a local charity, likely will take a seat on their board. Excited is an understatement for how I feel about this one.
This charity has been around for over 20 years and supplies curriculum to schools that is 100% entrepreneurship based. Yes, it is recognized and is a plug in for our typical education here and applies to grades 4 to 11. Imagine that, kids playing entrepreneurs and actually making real money doing it, while earning a grade in school.
What I think is missing is a centralized place on the internet for these kids to meet other kids from other schools. Some of them have become successful entrepreneurs already etc. I look at this place, the FLF @MJ DeMarco created and it's where lots of people get help! @Andy Black helped me with a new software that I am rolling out at my office - Basecamp, as the most recent example. There are too many to list. This is what gave me the idea for this charity, they need an online space that is exclusively for the kids that went though this program - to create a forum for them.
But I have no idea what it takes to create a forum. I assume it's a ton of work and I know MJ is here daily to ensure it functions as intended. I see lots of challenges.
This is why I am posting this and asking for your help with your thoughts and experiences. Here is what I think are "steps" or "challenges"
- Choose a software to create your forum website. Where to even begin?
- Organize your forum's structure. White boarding it might work.
- Create user rules for your forum website.
- Start conversations with interesting discussion topics.
- Publish your forum on your website. Probably need a web designer engaged to do that?!
- Moderate user participation and respond to inquiries. This may be the hardest part or maybe self-governing?
Any thoughts, ideas, help - all is welcome. Thanks in advance.
P.S. I will not be personally creating a forum, not enough knowledge or time. I'll want to hire someone to help me get it done. Might even have paid moderators etc.
P.P.S. @MJ DeMarco if it is inappropriate to ask on your forum how to create another forum, let me know and I'll delete this thread. I felt it wasn't a conflict because of the nature of 4th to 11th grade students being quite different from audience here and I'd want it locked only to those members, not open to the public.
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