Re: FN-FORUM: This collective/cooperative/consortium thing

date posted 11th September 2007 17:23


----- Original Message -----
Ian Piper wrote on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:42 PM

This feels like it is more than one person's work (even though the
> contract notice says "individuals or companies", and even if it were I
> don't have enough of the other things I would need to provide a credible
> bid:
>
> o Training skills
> o SEO (I know it reasonably well, but it isn't a core skill)
> o Experience of MLA sector
> o Design of specialised content creation services
> o Professional level application development skill (I'm reasonably good
> but this would need polish that I don't have)
> o Content creation skills and domain knowledge to create the examples
> o Creative skills and graphic design
> o Project management
>
> Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to tap into that and identify a
> team who could come together for the purpose of doing this job? This
> feels like the sort of thing that a team of, say, 4 - 5 people with
> complementary skills could take on and deliver a better result than the
> big players.

Put foward names under relevant bullets, above, for the poster to collate
and organise? Could be done as and when opportunities arise, by any forum
member, who would then take responsibility for gathering the group together?