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I'm partial to email lists, generally. They're still the open-standard leader, and offer the additional benefit that the directory is open, even to members, at least for active participants. I'd also strongly recommend setting up an independent blog, with an RSS/Atom feed. If nothing else, that's a contact and notification point for further communications. There's interesting stuff going on in the Federated space, but I don't see the options I've used (Diaspora*, Mastodon) as sufficient yet. These might be worth spinning up as an experiment though. See also Friendica and Hubzilla. The D Language discussion is based on, of all things, NNTP (Usenet), though it also presents a Web-based front-end. That might be worth looking at. I do have concerns over Usenet at scale, but within a closed organisation and with a moderated newsgroup or groups, it should be viable. Depending on your user-base, mobile support may be essential. That's ... something of a concern, though a good website design might be sufficient. Otherwise, I'm not really enthusiastic about much of anything at the moment. |