What was the motivation behind LVW?
I’m a local contact for the Vegan Society so, in short, this is about making life for those with similar aims better. A bit more detail … I was putting a lot of time into the Thames Valley Vegans web site and formalising its structure would ultimately save our group time. Secondly, it was obvious that most groups, especially small ones, did not have the time or resources to build their own sites, so LVW would prove very useful for them. Thirdly, I noticed there are many ‘the ultimate veggie guides to the world’ web sites out there on the net with little content. Why, I thought, would anyone want to spend their time writing content for someone else’s site if they had no stake in it? LVW side steps this by giving people their own sites, and that I thought, would be the motivation for creating really good content. Site owners so often forget that its the site’s content that makes it useful – a pretty site that never changes is visited twice and forgotten. It is only an active local vegg
