Post in Participation Inequality

Participation Inequality From: Steven Clift Date: 2007 Aug 13 19:08 UTC Short link

Richard noted:

I like the idea of being able to setup keywords you're interested in.

My response:

Moving from search results to web feeds for search (which is built it in and I
assume displays based on time and not relevancy) to saving your search words
for a menu of self-generated topics would be useful.

What would be really useful is setting group or site specific "Search Alert",
daily e-mail digest with links to posts that contain your word(s) that day.

Imagine that I am the Mayor of X city. I'm on digest mode because I can't
handle the e-mail, but I want to know when I am mentioned. I set an alert on my
name.

I would guess that almost all elected officials in the communities where we
have Issues Forums would set alerts on their names (and other terms) if we make
it really easy to turn it on.
    

Steve