The current links pages are user maintained.

I was going to say. Any buffista can add a link. Adding a new category might be very simple indeed. But I'll let someone who has to do the work provide info on that part of it.

Huh. I did not know that!

I like both the idea of the thread and a linky page.

There have been a number of times when I needed a product or service and wondered if there was a Buffista that offered same. Another step toward world domination when we support each other.

The knowledge sharing and brainstorming thread would be a place I would visit, and get hopelessly behind in, like my other subscribed threads. Surely my decades of business ownership has resulted in some knowledge others could benefit from, and the decades of experience has taught me how little I know and how important it is to have respected brains to pick.

Back to work....

Surely my decades of business ownership has resulted in some knowledge others could benefit from

I was hoping you'd say that, Laura!

I'm not sure why I never explored the links page. Must do that soon.

I think adding a category to the Affiliate Links for "Buffista Owned Small Businesses" would be smashing. The list is available to all, without having to dive into a thread to find anything. I probably wouldn't use the new thread, so wouldn't see a link in there. Put it with all the links, I'm likely to go looking. Special offers and discounts, new services being added, etc. sounds like a Press post. All your talky-talk, then, can be reserved for the new thread.

Exactly: perm links only not announcement of deals or stuff like. It is I have/work for a business/np that offers the following goods or services.

That's probably better because it's a go-to then. Nobody's getting advertised to that doesn't want to be, but the information is available for whoever wants it, when they want it.

OK coming to this discussion a bit late, but it strikes me that Press is where one would announce one's new website, a sale on services, etc. Would make more sense to me to post it there anyway given that not everyone is a small business owner.

BTW, I think it's so cool that, as the site and its users have grown and our lives have changed, now there are lots of parents, business owners, writers, newly established careers, etc.

I think press is good for something time limited. An event, a special sale (don't know if the latter is appropriate in press - 10% off on photo editing is starting to get awfully spammy). But if one has or is part of a business or non-profit, that is there after the sale ends. Just like other buffista sites, I think the existence of business or non-profit one owns or is an important part of is appropriate for a permanent list.