low-cost or free, not much work to implement I believe: 1. Pick 1 topic worthy of long-term discussion and post a free tier of Basecamp on the Hidden-Tech site, and see if it garners interest sample topics: What are the best resources for starting up a company in the valley? What is the best way to get revenue for the Hidden-Tech organization ? What are the best uses of Basecamp for virtual companies working with geographically disparate customers, partners, employees etc. I haven't used Basecamp much but it seems really interesting. Touted as being very easy to use, there are a lot of features including bulletin board with pictures of the person who is posting, RSS, email notifications, file sharing, to-do lists, milestones, categorized and sortable file sharing, dashboard, writeboards etc. 2. post a small link to paypal donation to HT on the HT website;. Post the link in the header or footer of the listserv emails IF there is a way to post it unobtrusively As a supplementary revenue source to paid memberships, this option would offer the flexibility of allowing any payment amount 3. a special sponsors page on the Hidden-Tech website that would list major sponsors, and then a listing of "supporters" (paid members), as a way of giving added value. Create a number of tiers (example: "Gold", "Bronze", "Silver") depending on the money, sweat equity, or other type of contribution. Some tiers would offer hyperlinked logo like Western MA electric and media partners. Other tiers name and short business description, some just name and email address... All the best, Jonathon Podolsky Producer at WholeHealthExpo.com Voice: 413.584.0010 Toll-Free: 877.WHE.EXPO Toll-Free: 877.943.3976 Fax: 413.586.5846 Click here for Whole Health Expo website including information about our events and applications -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070301/03441e69/attachment-0003.html