WHAT'S UP WITH THE MECHANISM? Here's the answer

Mark Suszko, et al:

We are changing the way that the Creative COW forums work and are introducing some of the backbone technology we've been creating to change the COW from a website-based community into one that is both web-based and able to completely reconstitute itself for people using iPads, iPhones, Android phones, Droid tablets, Blackberries, Palms, Nokias, etc. etc.

We see a COW that rather than being a bunch of fixed links that one must click and use back-and-forth hunting and pecking looking for things -- the COW mechanism of the days ahead will logically pull and "aggregate" data based on keywords, search terms, areas of prior interest, etc., so that we can assemble a COW that is 90% fat-free and far more pertinent to the person and the subjects they are interested in.

In order to achieve this goal, the site needs to be fluid, not fixed and static as it has been up to now. Part of this is in featuring the people who are the most helpful based on a subject.

We have been doing a bit of alpha-testing of some of the ideas during the holidays when traffic is light.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC
Publisher, Creative COW Magazine

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