Resource listings
I've been trying to figure out how to do resource listings, and I've got it sussed halfway; I know how to do the other half, I just need some content first and some time.
Right now we have:
Twitter hashtag chats
Listings, review sites and guides
Professional services
...and we've had a request for a registered user list, which is a separate animal and will be implemented at about the same time as the finished pages for these listings.
Other thoughts for listings:
Good advertising venues (specific sites to advertise on)
POD presses, including t-shirt presses
[I'll add to this list as people suggest 'em below]
All of these will go into a new "resources" section in the top menu (home, about, newest, etc). You can add resources right now at create a listing, which you can always find to the left under your name; click on "create content" and there it will be along with all the other stuff you can create.
Update: The resource lists are live! The link lives in the topmost menu.
Can we have an Online Zine category in Resources? This is different than Listings and Review services. A huge amount of the free poetry, short stories and literature online is posted in zines and quarterlies and magazines instead of author sites. They serve as promo and publishing credits for literature authors and they are typically VERY indie. Having a category for them to promote themselves would help bridge us over with the literary/academic crowd, and bring in more of that type of work for the upcoming anthology. (I have a few contacts and am inviting them to WebLit to start this happening. Literary writers could really use WebLit. It'd help break down that weird literary vs genre barrier too.)
The Peacock King - Is a mere servant a match for the ruler of half the known world? Probably not.