Welcome BCCC Test Pilots!

Hi to all my fellow BCCC members!

Please have a look around this blog, and judge its usefulness to the club.  As you know, the Newsletter is dead (anyone want to take over the editor role and revive it?  Didn't think so...) so I've been looking at a way to get the same basic content - stories about events and topics of interest to our members - out to you gals and guys.

The idea is to take articles that would normally be found in the newsletter and post them to the blog.  Links to other articles and to photos and such can be included in the blog.

The advantage is that

• it's easier to produce and maintain a blog
• it can be interactive, through comments
• it is real-time - there's no publishing dates or deadline; we can post as we get stories
• more than one person can submit stories
• it has the potential to tap into a bigger readership

This blog currently just has sample articles with a very basic look and feel.  With a graphics artist we can take this where ever we want.  What I am looking for is

1. General impressions
2. Usefulness as a replacement for the newsletter
3. Potential as a replacement for the website

The current website is basically an events list and a gallery.  This blog would be story-centric, but each story would have embedded pics and links to the larger gallery.  An events list is easy to add too, as are sponsor pages, shop and swap, and so on.

Anyway, like I said, take a look around and let me know if it is worth it for me to take this to the next step.