SIA President Mary Habstritt gave me a pointer to the Save Brooklyn's Industrial Heritage web site. (Full disclosure, she had done some consulting to the sponsoring organization.)
This, IMHO, is what ANY serious industrial heritage preservation effort needs. A rich visual environment mixing current and historical images, an interactive map (as a map afficianado it's interesting that I don't recognize the vendor, it doesn't look like either Google or Yahoo!), and good historical detail. I'd argue that it needs some way for folks to join in, and help build a community. How 'bout creating a Flickr tag/group so folks could contribute their own images and ideas to this worthwhile effort? What other ways could they use to engage folks??
Compelling web sites are just another tool and don't replace more conventional forms of advocacy, but certainly can extend the reach of our passions for industrial heritage preservation. This is a good one to use for ideas about YOUR site (deliberately ambiguous...)!
jay
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