The difference between the different sections will hopefully develop as the amount of content on the website increases. At the moment there is relatively little content on the site. And so there’s actually quite a lot of crossover between the different sections on the site.

Editorially the concepts behind the different sections are the following:

Front page: is for any piece of content on the site that we particularly want to highlight. At the moment it’s only content editors that can make this selection. But personally I’m open to widening this up to any member. We’ll see how it goes though for the time being.

Blog: is for content that is particularly newsy and is a member’s particular point of view on an issue. Any member can post in the blog section.

Discussion boards: the forums are a catch all for any kind of posting (info, articles, events, jobs, etc) that anyone wants to share with anyone else. Anyone registered on the website can post in the forums

Community: this is a section that brings together the bits of info people share on the discussion boards, or questions asked, job ops, articles for handbook (for members) in a stream chronologically sorted. Idea is that it makes keeping track of new content easier (although we’re currently experimenting with how we do this- have you seen: http://www.volunteermanagers.org.uk/new that lists new content as it’s added in a table format…)