Specific suggestions:
1. Web Search Capability. It would be quite an improvement if the search
for author or subject could be extended so that one could search beyond
just a single month.
2. Web/Email subject listing. It would be helpful if IA could adopt say
a dozen or so single-word standard subject categories (Each of the 5
disciplines would be good for starters), so that whatever subject the
submitter offered would be preceded by an IA-assigned single-word subject
header. If this were inserted when the messages were placed in the Web
archive, one could more easily do historical searches.
3. Digest Titles. Instead of spelling out the words learning-org-digest
(that already appears in =93From=94 box) it would be good if this phrase
were either shortened or eliminated and replaced the LO nos. that are
contained in a particular digest. This would facilitate searching prior
digests in search of a particular LO.
4. Digest Summary. In the digest summary it would be helpful to include
the author, in addition to the subject.
5. List Breakup to Sub-lists? It seems to me the continued success and
growth of this list is inevitable. However, success could be the downfall
if the contributions become so many and varied that the reader has to wade
through too much to get to something of interest. So in addition to my
suggestion above of having say a dozen or so subjects, it might be well to
be thinking of breaking this list up into several broad categories (fewer
than 12 - say 3 to 6) and have the participants be able to pick which
list(s) they want to sign up for. I question whether it would be within
IA=92s administrative resource limits to offer this, but it might be
offered in the context of setting up unmoderated lists if resources become
an issue. =
To accomplish this will take considerable thought, and perhaps Rick and
the participants would prefer to keep this one, free-wheeling list. But
if there is a desire to explore dividing this list up into several
sublists, to which participants could subscribe to any or all, I suggest
the next step would be to begin by asking all participants what their top
three subjects would be.
Then we could try to narrow down this list into a few broad categories.
My three are:
1. Learning re Outside Strategic Forces 2. Shared Vision 3. Team
Learning
Best
-- Brooks Helmick bhboston@aol.com