What do our poets enjoy the most at MM?, Central theme for IBPC boards Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hello and thanks for reading this thread!

The participating boards of the IBPC (InterBoard Poetry Competition) have been asked to raise discussion around the question, "What is at, or what is it about our forum, that the poets enjoy most?"

To quote part of Rus' email, he mentions that this question comes from two places.

"1. There were 7 forums that did not enter poems this month, some that would have wanted to (and two that withdrew from future comps, The Maelstrom and The Writer's Block). What if they could create activities or formats, something got sparked, that would attract or keep poets at their sites, or would help them rebuild after personal calamities and illnesses and such? If we can learn from each other, perhaps some forums might develop cliques and buddy up with reps who find themselves on the same visionary wavelengths.

2. This a bit more involved: If we all come to a place of keen understanding of what it is about the sister boards that is best for the poets, then the upcoming IBPC blog, Voices in Synergy, succeeds as we all will come to know how to put our best feet forward--and in unison, come from a keen, informed, communal understanding.

To reinterate Rus' closing remarks:
"No matter whether we want growth, or just want to make a place better for our poets, or get some ideas for new features and such, this e-mail loop is to make us all the smarter. It works if we make it work, and the more the merrier and the better we, and ultimately the poets of the community, are for it.

It is only through IBPC that internet poetry forums are truly able to consider themselves part of a larger community. Let's do this thing we have."

I look forward to your feedback - I will be sharing the responses with the IBPC and its forum reps.

Thank you!
~Lori

[Peterpan]

Hi Lori~

This is a very fast response...waiting in reception for a meeting...

Sorry, I have been a bit hectic. Thank you for the link, nudge! I think there are troubling times in the world? I appreciate your energy. I have been here when MM was buzzing. I was also a mod on another board years ago which was also buzzing and now I see things are a lot more sober. It is hard to make people commit. Most of us are working. I would love to write 24/7. Perhaps one day. I think for a lonely person the internet is a wonderful friend. I hope we all can buck things up and keep the MM wheel moving, make friends with the other boards.

I have tried to contribute every time I log in for a brief viewing! Perhaps we have to make that our motto? Log-in and make a remark. Perhaps we think of a more appropriate buzz phrase?

I will give it some thought over the weekend. I dont even have time for the word challenges! And I love the stimulation. Life is a bit fast.

Take care and you have my support!

Bev