Have not heard from a lot of members that they are willing to attend this meeting.

I cant make it at that time unfortunately.

Should be available.

try and make it if i can.

With not many people making a comment on this, I wonder if a "live" discussion is the best way to address any issues that have arisen?

Perhaps a post underlying the important points, that could be commented on as and when by the more established members?

I wonder what is your motivation for having the live discussion? Its not something we have done before?

I can be..

It seems as though the only thing to come out of the discussion yesterday was a need to advertise the site more, as much as we all can. That does seem the only way to promote it to more people.

This morning I was just going through some of my Fantasy League things online and I thought....we have a very high standard, very competitive League for our forum. Perhaps friends (I have got one interested for example) could be enticed to enter into the league to start with, and then enticed toward the forum using the league via messages on the FL site itself.

Many people participate in the fantasy league and you always need leagues to be in. So perhaps that is an avenue we can work? Just a thought.

I think thats a great thought abcdef.

Once you left there was talk about changing the name but then I had to leave. Did you decide whether or not to change the name because it is pointless me advertising now if the name is going to be changed?

I left reasonably early.

I would have thought that TalkFootball a) pretty well describes what we do on this board and b) is a pretty "searchable" word. However, should you google that, a much more established site pops up and in fact ours is not there at all.

If we are to do it through search engines, we need to have something easily searchable (as we do) but something that pops up in the first page of google, or whatever. Probably have to pay for such a priviledge though.

I have advertised the forum on my facebook status, but I hold little hope of encouraging joiners via that!

To be fair, we only lack a gooner and then a nice gathering of fans from other clubs. Even some established members barely post.

I have been tweeting on twitter today, I am also writing up a blog post which I will re-post a few times a week. I have also contacted some blog owners to see if they can get a link up.

I missed the discussion. Had to go out Sunday night. But I've got the idea about what was discussed!

I left just before the meeting but a quick point on the google issue...I did register the site with about 500 hundred search engines a while back and it did then appear on google - however I have a feeling google works by paying to have your site at the top - or the number of hits you get directly from google search results.

Which probably means our website has gone down the pecking order. - just checked and its on the 3rd page - it was 6th on the first page when I registered it.

Well its getting better eh