Food For Thought
Hello, Fellow QLers, although i am not a shaper, coordinator or idea generating personality, yet this idea has recently struck my mind:
What about having a 6 monthly or quarterly QL magazine with a cool name and cool contents. It will have infinite potential and access to people in Qatar and secondly will generate monitory advantage to the owners/stake holders.
No single individual is more smarter than a group effort. and it can be published effortlessly as contents are flooded on daily basis. Which can include articles, threads of the quarter, advertisements, blogs, promotion , jokes (most abundant) and efforts of bridging the gap of local community with expatriates.
QL is the most successful and most helpful site for all the people living in Qatar. It has become the collective thought process. Paper form will have altogether a different approach that will promote members, site, monetary benefits. volunteer efforts and group activities shall be heard.
With its rapport and success QL can have vision that can touch international horizons.
Editorial board will be one interesting group as well, if this idea is capitalized.
really very good idea
Hmm..a good idea...Hope someone should listen us to make this noble idea to come true...
rishimba, nice idea...
my vote is also in... :)
Flans corner on first page!!
i'll contribute......daily doha blogs on my mind numbing brain induced comma adventures.
i award you your mbbs degree, which i tried to burn for my nostril incident
Great Idea....I vote for it :-)
thanks sirjee..:) lets wait what others have to say..
rishimba: what an idea sir jee!!
lemontree, an e-magazine could be formed as a section here. the originality of the articles is to be ensured by the moderator and there should be a panel to select the articles which would be published in the section.
QL members can submit original matter to the mod which would be screened and then published.
this will produce some serious reading and not the same discussions on sensational current affairs that we have everyday in the launge and the social section.
ok, monetary advantage is just icing on cake, yet magazines are mostly seen not read, if u know what am talking about,
magazines have very versatile dynamics, and QL has the potential to shine more for its very purpose it was made.
but thanks for the feedback, this is how brainstorming starts.
I personally believe that the idea behind QL was not money making... or if it was, it changed later on. QL seems more like a Government Sponsored Online Community Forum that is being used for some specific purpose. QL Stake Holders would not be interested in a magazine kind of stuff. Now, these are just my thoughts, I hope no one crucify me for this ;)
Having said this, I would say your idea is excellent but not at a place like Doha where a minority seems to be interested in reading books/magazines. You can have an idea of this by the number of quality book shops across Qatar.
what do you think guys and gals??