Don’t know if you saw this in Tony Whittaker’s Web Evangelism Bulletin, but I think this is a very good way to build interest in your site and build credibility of providing cutting-edge information on current issues. This would be a good way for content-rich sites to promote their content by connecting it to a survey of what people think are important, and releasing it over time to build readership. What “expert group” would your website users respect? Survey the experts and organize your content around current issues that are important to experts your users would respect. Or survey your users and do the same process using your users’ opinions of what is important.
The news item is reproduced below, and is available online.
Top 10 Issues Facing Today’s Church
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Good thoughts. I posted about it on my blog.
http://eministrynotes.blogspot.com/2005/02/delayed-content-effective.html