So some of us have been discussing and this is what we came up with so far.

1. we can put outing info as well as attendance here on the blog. this makes it easier to find and prevent inconsistencies in the attendance list. Also there will be no trying to find the latest post with the attendance list. TCSS about the outing though will prolly still be in kopitiam thread.
2. announcements like special deals for members, merchandising opportunities, members getting married and births for example will be here on the blog as well. It will come in handy in situations like recently where the moderator killed a few of the threads without a link to the next thread.
3. notes on any learning/sharing sessions (for example the one that Thomas did) can be uploaded here so everyone can see
4. group photos during outings can be uploaded here. but i am restricting it to just that because I can take the bandwidth for the blog but not photo sharing site (I think .. anyways..flickr/photobucket/smugmug is much better for that anyways).
5. we can post links and resources to photography related stuff here. for example I remember rocfreaks posting something about catchlights. Those kind of things can be posted here as well. I suggest we can request for what links to be uploaded here and we will add those here. Basically we can treat this blog as a “super-sticky” thread
6. finally i would like this blog/site to be the answer to the question “How to be a member of Club 1000D?” or “Who qualifies to be a member of Club1000D?”. this blog accepts user registrations and one idea is to use that so to be official member of Club 1000D you just register here as a member. I thought this would be useful as sometimes we get deals (like the tripod one) where they wanna restrict it to only Club1000D members. This is so we can be fair to the people who strike these deals for us. I don’t think we will be strict on the user registration criteria. So anyone can join if they make the effort to come here and actually register.

This is what we have so far. Again I just want to reiterate that this blog is useful in the capacity that we can treat it as a super-sticky thread where we can have a permanent place to store information.

P.S. Just want to make it clear. The first 2 posts are mainly here so I don’t have to explain it to everyone but just point them here. It also serves as something of a reminder for me in terms of what needs to be done and what the original intention was so I don’t loose track. The actual site probably won’t be that wordy. I am just long-winded .. I know