Mailing/ Mention List on Connect for Bulk Tagging/Mentioning of Local Guides

[#1]

When writing posts on connect, which concern a specific group of people, perhaps I'm writing about our next meet-up in Abuja, or you're writing of Street View Trusted Photographers or you're writing of Level 10 Local Guides, which ever the case, an efficient way to get the message across would be to create mailing list or Mention list where local guides can add their names subject to approvals. As an example I would request to be added to the mailing list/ Mention list of Level 9 local guides in Africa or Nigeria, or I could request to be added to the mention list of Meet-up hosts, etc. So that when anyone has to refer to an entire group of local guides, they can instead mention just the group and all the participants would get notified. That way, it is easier to communicate to larger groups of Local Guides especially those who might miss a post that affects them. 

This will
1. Encourage greater user participation, as users relevant to a post or question are all notified by a single tag.
2. The best answers from any group would be made available since every member of the group would be notified.
3. It will also improve the turnaround time of responses as no one person would be waited for to reply a Local Guide's question 

[FaridTDF]

Me gusta tu sugerencia de mejora @Anonymous, no sé si es tan compatible con la manera que Connect trata el tema de la privacidad de los usuarios, de todas maneras te doy mi voto para que camine la sugerencia. 😀👍

Farid.

[Vera_chidera]

I think it's a good idea. Helps with sourcing already answered questions of a particular field in one place. 

[Atsukot]

Hi @Anonymous, thank you for sharing this idea. We are not creating directory as we respect everyone's privacy; therefore, I will change the status to "Closed".

[JustineE]

It would be useful to be able to create groups in Connect- the same way you can in an email. Let's say I know several LGs who are interested in accessibility and I read a great post on Ideas Exchange. Having a group created with a # or name, would allow me to easily tag several people so they could  read this post too. A problem I can see would be spamming, so I would limit the group size in order to reduce the likeliness of this happening. LGs could also be sent a request when another LG wants to place them in a group, so they can allow or deny that request. Thanks!

[JeroenM]

I like your thinking, @JustineE ,  but I have my doubts it fits the way LGC is set up

You can set something like this up easily on a platform like Telegram. The group becomes like the mailing lists and all you have to do is to agree to only post Connect shares on a certain topic inside your special interest group.

It would be great if the application that is used to power this LGC platform could create RSS feeds based on tags.

[sonnyNg]

Hi @JustineE,

Thank you for sharing the suggestion with example! : ]

As to follow up, I do believe that the idea would be already mentioned previously in another post, Mailing/ Mention List on Connect for Bulk Tagging/Mentioning of Local Guides.

You may find conclusive information on the matter in the mentioned post, as for the moment to keep similar ideas linked, I have relocated both of the posts in one location.