a. I think mailing lists, in our case would be the most efficient. There can be one for meeting announcements only (like we have now) and one for general group discussion. They are technically simple to participate in and every knows how to use email.

b. I like this too but identi.ca is limited in its 3rd party application implementation. It is pretty much limited to browser based participation. I suspect this will see very limited participation.

c. This seems so simple to use, like the mailing lists. Perhaps we just need to push it more and keep each other in the habit of frequenting the site.

d. Great idea, especially if the site is being used. However, one must get into the habit of utilizing RSS. I have never been a big RSS user. I mostly just frequest the sites themselves than hitting up the feed first. I could change that but it would take time to get used to.

e. Perhaps <a href="http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/how-to-send-smoke-signal.htm rel="nofollow">this</a> in binary?

Mike