Categorizing articles
Sam Peters
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All the articles on the website say "Published in Uncategorized" at the bottom. Can we make some categories? Some ideas: Politics, Sports, Policy, Cooperatives, Ideas.
If you click on the "Uncategorized" hyperlink it takes you to https://www.mutualinterest.coop/category/uncategorized. But if you delete the "uncategorized" from the URL, it gives a 404 error. Would be nice if there were a page at https://www.mutualinterest.coop/category/ that indexed articles according to category.
Looking at the theme we use (https://www.competethemes.com/mission-news/) it has categories so I think implementing this could be easy. Thoughts?
Sam Peters Sun 19 Apr 2020 5:12PM
Is there a roadmap or something that outlines the plan for MIM?
Leo Sammallahti Wed 22 Apr 2020 12:35AM
Here is an old post about my initial plans. Here were my initial goals. My plan was to reach 12 paying reader-members in the first 6 months - we are two months in and already have 21! So things going much better than expected.
February Goal
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Launch on week 1 of February:
Publish an article describing the Counter-economy Co-op
Interview with Sandeep Vaheesan on anti-trust
Interview with Cardiff taxi worker co-op and union collaboration
Publish one new article by you
Publish one new article by me
Add around 15 old articles by us about unions, co-ops and party
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Week 2 to 4
Interview with Nathan Schneider
Interview with cleaners co-operative in Belfast
Publish one article by both me and you
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6 Month Goals
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Reach production of 11 articles a month
Interview with co-op, union and party person of the month
An article from you and me
An guest article author
Resonate song of the month - a regular article retweeted by Resonate
Coop Fact Of The Week vote
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Revenue of 320£-440£/year
12 reader-members providing £360-240/year
Platform6 £80/year grant
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12 Month Goals
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Reach production of 5 articles a week
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Regular new reader polls
Election Watch - readers vote on policies on party manifestos of ongoing elections across the world
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Expansion to broader interests than politics
Sports, fan-owned sports teams news
Culture, Stocksy photo- and Resonate music coop news.
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Tech
Open source co-op project of the month
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Personal finance tips and business news.
Informing about opportunities for mutual self-help, such as job opportunities or goods and services offered by co-operatives.
Business news from the co-op sector
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Revenue of 790-1090£/year
30 reader members - 900£ - 600£/year
Platform6 advertisement 150£/year
Social Coop advertisement 40£/year
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24 Month Goals
Reach a production of 2 articles a day
Monthly piece by an elected union, co-op and co-op party representative.
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Have a monthly post on:
Anti-trust
Georgism
Energy, with pro-nuclear leaning
Employee ownership
Open source software
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Regular monthly readers polls:
Policy of the month
Randomised trial of the month
Platform co-operative of the month
Resonate song of the month
Co-op crowdfunding campaign of the month
Co-op fact of the month
Co-op Open Source Project of the month
Trade union of the month
Propose an annual motion voted on by the members of Nationwide
Have a Countereconomy Coop member as the reader elected member of the board of directors of Co-operative News
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Revenue of 2840-3840£/year
Platform6 advertisement 300£/year
Social Coop advertisement 40£/year
Other sponsorships 500£/year
100 reader members - 3000 - 2000£/year
Leo Sammallahti · Sun 19 Apr 2020 4:51PM
Yes, that is a good idea. We shall be doing categorising next week or two. Here are some ideas for the categories, we won't probably be implementing all of them at least right away. Co-ops and unions should be there at least next week or two.
Co-ops
Unions
Anti-trust
Georgism
Technology
Sports