General Idea
The original idea for the blog was to have people with blogs review another shopkeeper’s design. A shopkeeper with a blog would devote 1 review a month / 1 post a month to the review of some design of another shopkeeper. Each participating shopkeeper would do the same and thus everyone would be reviewing every else’s designs and provide for some new content to their blog as well as introducing their readership to new products.
Then came the question of “what if you don’t have a blog but still wanted to participate?” This group blog is the answer to that. The idea being, all of the participants of the group blog would have their shop included on the shopkeeper list and be responsible for 1 review / month.
Then, if you have your own blog, you can post your review to your blog, but if you don’t you can post your review to this blog. To keep content “fresh” on this group blog, we will post reviews throughout the month instead of everyone at once.
So as our participants create their reviews, we will activate the posts throughout the month based on the number of reviewers we have. IE if we have 30 participants, we can post a new review each day and each of us are still only reviewing 1 per month just like the shopkeepers with their own blogs. Obviously this only works if we have participants that create their reviews on a timely basis (not everyone waits until the last day).
All participants get their blog listed / posted on the group blogroll if they wish.
I expect the assignment of which shop to review for each shopkeeper will be distributed by one of the users each month.
I also expect the assignment to be of a shop, and picking which design will be left up to the reviewer. Maybe input from the shopkeeper on which designs are selling best.
A list of interview type questions will also be formed to help a reviewer create a posting.