Time for a heart-to-heart, DUers (w/update)

[OneGrassRoot]

133. That's one way to go. :)

That may be something for this community to consider. I'm going to sit with all the suggestions above, including this, and my next OP may be a poll for DUers so others can chime in as to how they'd like this to work.

Doing it the way you suggest takes Wishadoo out of the equation. And that's okay!

If there are people willing to host such a group, and if they approach the admins with it and they agree, that is definitely one way to go.

I wouldn't want to personally organize or host it because that keeps my efforts even more confined and focused here in DU, and that's not my intention. I need to focus on expanding Wishadoo...beyond DU. There's a big world out there.

My intention is to offer these tools to MANY existing communities (online and "real" world). Not everyone who posts in the Wishlist now is from DU. I create the OPs here to point out the people who are DUers.

Even though people may connect to and acknowledge/help only people they know -- people from their community (like DU) -- who had the courage to create a Wishlist post about whatever it is they need or have to offer, my hope is that, while at Wishadoo, they will consider reaching out to the general Wishadoo Community as well. And check out the rest of the site. There's a lot more there than the Wishlist.

And, in turn, those who join Wishadoo who are NOT part of a community in any way may connect and find new friends there, including people from other communities they'd like to join -- such as DU, for example -- so it's a two-way street as far as connecting and expanding the larger community.

Other large online sites have subgroups which function as you suggest (reddit, for example).

While I am part of this DU community and want to foster genuine community here at DU, I don't want to isolate my Wishadoo-related efforts to one community. Inevitably it ends up that there are more who need help than those who are able/willing to do so. So reaching out and expanding connections is my goal. I'm all about collaboration and cooperation, whereas most other communities are rather isolationist. That's the second part of this social experiment called Wishadoo.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks very much.