The readers would become real citizen reporters and this would help Global Voices to get even more content. The stories submitted would still go through editors, as happens now.

make sure there are no inaccuracies, typos, etc. and an article is not too repetitive, long, etc. and html/media work properly, etc.; a similar level of expertise should be required to translators and each Lingua group should work also on quality assurance (even if in both cases, this is not always achievable, of course), because projects as Lingua are becoming a blueprint for the Net as a whole [this belongs better to the translation xchange-only wiki only, but... - bernardo.parrella]

This would take the onus off of editors (many of whom do heavy recruiting) and allow volunteers to strategize together on recruiting.

Encouraging posting about GV work on our own venues - this will increase buzz and encourage our local reader to join GV.

Highlight older posts from the past when viewing various contexts.

and then an actual book in the style of worldchanging.com, with a US publisher first, and encouraging lingua people to translate and help in finding local publishers.

such as http://www.breakingtweets.com/2009/05/24/african-prophet-saw-roh’s-death-coming/

and write posts which cover interesting topics, giving perspectives from around the world, including translations

proposal here: http://www.slideshare.net/sylwiapresley/global-voices-online-social-media-strategy-proposal

allowing people to tailor their daily/weekly subscriptions to include posts from certain Regions and/or certain topics.

without the trackback option, that we have linked to them if possible - Amira

In 2007 we produced four issues of a sometimes informative, often fun and always silly PDF format newsletter called "The Global Voice". Copies available at http://groups.google.com/group/GV-Authors/files/. Anyone interested in reviving it? If so, a good start to the discussion would be figuring out if there's a better alternative for distribution than PDF.

for those who do not have access to the Internet - Claire