Suggestion

[Anonymous]

Rather than regional forums it seems like it would be most useful to have topical forums for nannies. For example:

-Advice for getting and keeping nanny jobs
-Ventland, a place to vent
-A forum to talk about what to do during the day with kids
-A nannies in the news forum
-A forum to discuss compensation

etc

[jsteele]

These are good ideas. Thank you for the suggestions. As I said in the announcement in the General Discussion forum, I'm not wedded to any of the existing forums. I had to start some place, but that's all.

I'm also thinking about moving all the Nanny Search forums from the other forum to here as well. That would allow me to create additional discussion forums there.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Rather than regional forums it seems like it would be most useful to have topical forums for nannies. For example:

-Advice for getting and keeping nanny jobs
-Ventland, a place to vent
-A forum to talk about what to do during the day with kids
-A nannies in the news forum
-A forum to discuss compensation

etc

I've implemented a couple of your ideas and combined the jobs and compensation suggestions into one. I haven't given up on the others, but I want to start a little bit slow. Thans for the ideas.

[Anonymous]

Are you trying to get us to stop posting on the regular forum? I don't understand why we need our own section when we don't get that many new topics per day.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Are you trying to get us to stop posting on the regular forum? I don't understand why we need our own section when we don't get that many new topics per day.

Right now, this is sort of an experiment. We have requests for a lot more discussion forums. At the same time, we get complaints that there are too many forums. So, how do I address requests for new forums while not compounding the complaints that there are already too many? One way is to separate types of forums into different "mini-sites". Doing this with nanny topics makes sense because so many of the nannies aren't from the DC area anyway. Also, I've had many requests from nannies outside the area to provide resources for them. Also, if I move the nanny search forums here, that is 9 forums that can be replaced with other topics on the other site.

So many of you seem to be reacting as if I have something against you and this is a negative step. To the contrary, I want to expand discussion topics for nannies and provide a better and more helpful resource for nannies who are not in the DC area. Ultimately, I know that people generally don't like change and any change always meets resistance. That's fine. I'll listen to the gripes. But, I think if you give this a chance you will find out it is a better solution than a single forum on the other site.

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to add some support for the idea.

I am in the DC area but I think a spin off like this is worth a try and could be useful.

[Anonymous]

I think this new forum is a great idea, Jeff. I also think the regional breakdown is a good one because nanny rates vary widely in different areas of the country and it would be great if nannies looking for rate info got more reliable info than they got in the DC based site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this new forum is a great idea, Jeff. I also think the regional breakdown is a good one because nanny rates vary widely in different areas of the country and it would be great if nannies looking for rate info got more reliable info than they got in the DC based site.

But they also vary greatly just from Seattle to San Francisco, yet they're in the same region.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this new forum is a great idea, Jeff. I also think the regional breakdown is a good one because nanny rates vary widely in different areas of the country and it would be great if nannies looking for rate info got more reliable info than they got in the DC based site.

But they also vary greatly just from Seattle to San Francisco, yet they're in the same region.

Let me give more background about what I was thinking with the regional forums. When we have received requests or suggestions to create forums for nannies in other parts of the country, they have often been for specific cites. Launching this forum, for obvious reasons I didn't want to create a list of forums for various cities. I thought that creating regional forums would allow posters from various areas to touch base and we'd see if any groups developed center on a particular city. If that happened, it would be easy to create a specific forum for that city. Again, every forum that exists now is simply a starting point. In a month or two, we might have a completely different list of forums if the current list is not popular.

[Anonymous]

SF really needs it's own section. There are quite a few of us from here and our rates vary greatly from almost everywhere else other than LA, NYC and the higher rates in the DC area.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:SF really needs it's own section. There are quite a few of us from here and our rates vary greatly from almost everywhere else other than LA, NYC and the higher rates in the DC area.

Could you start a thread for San Francisco in the West forum? Once we get participation from enough posters, I'll set up a San Francisco forum.

[Anonymous]

I think for this to work you'll need to shut down the other forum. People are stupid, I for one am excited for the new forum. As sad as the current nanny in the news is, I'm donee with it. I'd love for them to stop popping up. This way I can avoid it.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I think for this to work you'll need to shut down the other forum. People are stupid, I for one am excited for the new forum. As sad as the current nanny in the news is, I'm donee with it. I'd love for them to stop popping up. This way I can avoid it.

I'm moving in that direction. I've moved the Nanny Search forums where and closed the old Nanny Discussion forum to new posts. Let's see if that gets people posting here instead.

[Anonymous]

If you're going to stick us here then at least move all the old posts over here please.

[Anonymous]

PS. Do these topics show up in the recent topics for the dcum search?