Phew, Ok, we're all together again...now what?

It was a very creepy feeling to log into FT and find half of you gone. Not just gone, but vanished. All the jokes, bitching, heartache etc, deleted from this world (although probably still in the archive!).

What a big relief to find everyone again. We're almost there on getting everyone via the blog or the group. Deep breath. Yay!!

Even better, we now have options (even though we don't have ninja smilies. I'll look into how we can get that.) As a group, we now have to find our feet on how we want to keep supporting each other.

I'm not a techno geek, but I use quite a few groups and blogs. In general, I find groups are great for quick chit chat and transient stuff and comments. Blogs are really good for people to communicate on something they feel strongly about, something they want to make available to a wider audience. I see that some of our gang already even have their own blogs!

I don't know if KB has this blog set to public, but if she does, then that will allow other IF folks to find us. And if they read some of the incredible stories, insights, commentaries and observations that you ladies have shown such great capacity for on FT, and could post here too, then we might be able to help these new folks. FT did have that ability - that people found us in the JJJA's and Confessions threads and decided we were kindred spirits.

If I were to throw a straw man out there for picking at, I'd like to think that the Confessions blog is a long term, solid, living document, posted to by people who care about eachother and total strangers who may alight here seeking our brand of support. It will generate discussion, and comments and further insight. Links to similar blogs and other stories.

The google group is more of an 'in the moment' gathering space, a place to alight and bitch while you've got stuff going on, but where things come and go and topics evolve and change and you can tune in and out. Perhaps when someone posts something that generates a great deal of discussion on the group, we can cross post onto the blog because it will perhaps be useful to a broader audience?

These are my two cents. I'm going to try and search the FT archive to see if some of the gems from Confessions might still be around for grabbing and re-posting here. Maybe if any of you subscribed to the email feed you'll have them in your inbox archives?! But if not, then we'll have to all think back to what moved us, what really helped us, and try to regenerate those thoughts and many new ones, here.

Serious Respect Vibes to all ladies with IF.
Kiellara.