Looking for a calendar plugin for WordPress, I came across the site Boxes and Arrows. I really thought its calendar was a plugin for WordPress (Why? I don’t know), but as I kept looking at its functionality, I got more intrigued.
So I sent them an e-mail. One of the creators of PublicSquare, Christina Wodtke, e-mailed me back. I’m embarassed to admit I knew little of her and her resume when I sent the e-mail. She replied:
It is a stand-alone we built ourselves, although we do have plans to productize it. it’d be great to know what someone like yourself would pay for such a thing, if anything….
She’s building an interesting content managment system to be "The CMS for We Media." Some of the features include:
- Posting suggestions to be rated by readers for viability as stories
- Ratings, suggestions and comments help push story rank up
- Writers earn points based on their contribution rankings
- Writer profiles also show the stories they’ve written and comments posted by the author
- Comments are treated as content and can be promoted to front-page stories
And then there’s the cool calendar.
Check it out and let them — and me (in the comments) — know what you think.