Connecting Country’s Online Discussion Forum

Posted on 24 April, 2015 by Connecting Country

With the upgrade of Connecting Country’s website in the second half of 2014, the opportunity to include a Discussion Forum within it was too good to pass up.

The main aim of our Forum is to provide a space where members, staff and other supporters of Connecting Country can share ideas about different aspects of Landscape Restoration at the local scale, and also national and international ideas and events.

It was originally planned as a place where participants in our Education Program could continue their conversations after the completion of a field day – but it has been expanded to include all aspects of Connecting Country’s activities (e.g., education and engagement; flora and fauna monitoring; Landcare; on-ground habitat restoration; plus anything else relevant to Landscape Restoration in the Mount Alexander Region and beyond). Our resident ornithologist Tanya is already excited about the possibilities it has for discussing the latest sightings and surveys for the Feathered Five.

A link to the Forum can be found on the Home page of our website, or by following this link (http://connectingcountry.org.au/forums/). We encourage our members, blog subscribers and other interested people to register as contributors to the Forum. Or, if you’re wary of registering, you can also go to the Forum at anytime to see what others are discussing.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of steps to follow to become a registered user (click here for a step-by-step instruction guide with diagrams), but once you’ve got through this initial process then the Forum is yours to explore. Add to an existing topic of conversation or start a new topic – which doesn’t have to be about Connecting Country. All discussions are effectively un-moderated, but Connecting Country staff will intervene if there are personal attacks or other unsavoury comments made.

Feel free to pose a question or comment within the Forum. And remember, there are no stupid questions – except, possibly, the one that is not asked!

If you have any suggestions about how the Forum might be improved, please let us know. (Many thanks to the Norman Wettenhall Foundation for supporting the upgrade to the Connecting Country website, including the Discussion Forum).