Using WCRS online forums as one of many tools to improve our grassroots media outlet ?

Could we, by using these forums:

(1) enhance our collaboration w/in and beyond WCRS' core group, by enabling us to further develop, track over time, and test our various ideas; and

(2) add more integrity to our organizational habits in that the community at large can participate in these forums, and thereby play at least some role in our decision making processes ?

Regarding (2), constraints related to time, space, and other factors obviously prevent us from having hundreds of people from the community at our board meetings. Forums may be step toward remedying that.