Note in Version 1.0 of the website you may only participate via the Forums, User News and Comments. You can always ask a question of the site administrators using the FAQ feature. More coming soon!

Discussion Arenas are found as a menu item on every page of the website. They are ordered according to the amount of editorial control that will be exercised, from none at one end to extensive the other. Note: the opportunity to comment is found on almost every page, but this is typically not the best place to attract an audience for your ground-breaking discussion.

If your discussion is free-wheeling or formed from incomplete thoughts, then you probably want to use discussion arenas such as (i.e., forums, user news). These are only edited to ensure compliance with the website Terms of Use. For more distilled contributions, those that have withstood the test of time, use the discussion arenas such as Case Studies and Groups.

Each arena also contains certain website features that can guide your choice. If you would like your contribution to be discussed with like-minded members, then use Industry Corners or Interest Groups. Access to these is by invite only. If you have a specific R&D case study you would like to initiate, with a defined timeline, then use Case Studies. New discussion arenas are in the works (e.g., collaborative book authoring), and these will be numbered accordingly.

If you have an article or review to submit, then use the appropriate arenas.

Still confused? Then use the discussion arenas such as User News or Forums, since the content of these discussions eventually filters its way towards the arenas under stricter editorial control (either automatically through the use of keywords, or manually as they are reviewed by the editors).