VETNET community news

We've just made a fairly big upgrade in the way the VETNET site supports comments and discussion. Many members were having a hard time participating because they could not create their own discussions or add links and attachments to their comments.

As the first part of a drive to enhance the interactivity and community-building features of the VETNET site, we've added shared weblogs:

VET-NET Site Comments

This is a place for comments and discussion about the VETNET site by its members. Everyone who is logged in can add comments and participate in discussions. Comments that members add using the 'Add a comment' button in the site's pages will be posted as an entry to this shared weblog.

VET Talk

This is a group discussion area in which members of the VETNET site can create and participate in discussions about the issues that concern them. All members can post here and participate in any discussions.  This is a really good place to start if you want to pose a question or start a discussion of your own.  Please don't be inhibited, all contributions welcome.

VETNET Site News

This is for news about the VETNET site. Members of the editorial team can post to this weblog. All members of the site can participate in discussions of entries there.

Note that the 'Add a comment' feature is now also based on the weblogs. Adding a comment anywhere on the site automatically posts a new entry to 'VET-NET Site Comments', which includes a link back to the page that the comment is about. Because of a little piece of internet magic called ' trackback', the pages can display the title and lead-in (summary) for any weblog entry or discussion item which includes a link to it. This is true even if the weblog entry is on another site. (for an example, see this article by Alan Brown )

We will be posting additional materials explaining how to use the new features, and giving some hints about powerful new tools that can be used to track the content of the site and to add your own content. Watch this space!