We were asked why we chose this way of presenting the information we will slowly adding on the list and not another form of communication (a forum or a portal of some sort).
The answer is extremely simple. We like blogging as we believe it is a remarkably fast and hip way of passing information across to thousands of users. To give you a small example of this let me say that our website has been up only for about three weeks and we already have hundreds of visitors per day (and even more readers of the RSS feed) and we are listed very high in the new yahoo! search engine. Normally it would take many months and a huge advertising budget to get to where we are. We did this at a minimal cost and we hope with very good results.
Weblogs and RSS feeds have another big advantage: They respect the privacy of the viewer of the pages. We frankly do not wish to have any information of the people reading the information we will provide so instead of using a 'newsletter' you can get our daily information with your favorite RSS reader.
The reason we used MovableType as a blogging tool is because we believe it is one of the best in the mareket and we definitely appreciate the fact that it is free for non-profit organizations like ours.
Posted by Basileios at March 29, 2004 04:25 PMnice site!!!
Posted by: pe at September 5, 2004 12:54 AM