A "getting started” site

Recently I have made a getting started guide to Afrigator. Jason Bagley did a similar post about Amatomu. One real problem is that people feel intimidated and in the dark when it comes to new technology. There are plenty of “getting started” information if you know where to look! How about we start a site/blog where we bring together all the “getting started” information? No, I’m definitely NOT suggesting a fourth blog aggregator! A basic web site/blog we can point new comers and interested people to to help them on their way with the various new services, tools and techniques.

As Tresblue says, I’m passionate about solving the skills requirements rather than solving the skills solution. So I think what we need is a proper community driven project thats aim is to expand the community and teach newbies about the wonderful worldwide web. I unfortunately do not have the time to do it myself, otherwise I would have. Besides, this is not something one person or company could drive!

Not so long ago, the Telecoms Action Group ran a campaign where community members donated a couple of bucks to run a advertisement in the Mail & Gaurdian. The Spread Firefox community did the same thing in the New York Times. Apparently it works quite well! Maybe we can do something similar?

So if you feel like or have done a basic introduction to some new technology, you submit it to the site/blog. We build a fairly comprehensive database of guides to various subjects like browsers, blogging, podcasting, photo and video sharing, aggregating, etc… We then get pledges from the community. Once we have enough money to buy ad space, we do it.

In return for your efforts, every contributor, whether they’ve contributed money or content, get some link love. (and we all know that is one thing our community love…)

If you think this could work and would be keen to get involved, let me know. I am too busy to start or manage such a project, but would love to get involved. I would be more than happy to submit my old tutorials and any new ones to a site like this.

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