All, Thanks so much for these great suggestions! For those of you who have the ability to suspend posting-either on the member level or the thread level-do you...
I sort of agree with Cortney. But... When we close a thread, we always leave a clean explanatory message in public. People have a right to know... and if they...
There has been great discussions in this thread. Katherine, do you think when it finally wraps up, you would be willing to summarize the thread and then post...
Just sending these along... LOS ANGELES TIMES July 2, 2008 Front Page, Business Consumer Confidential * Social networking site divulges child's personal data *...
Good idea. I'd also like to ask the different authors for permission to reproduce the thread on my blog, if I find the time. If anybody objects, please let me...
Well, I see the summary is on the wiki! YAY and I presume, a thank you to Katherine! N ... Nancy White | Full Circle Associates | Connecting communities online...
Hello again OF group, I was curious whether any of you have had experiences dealing with the wrong audience joining and participating in your communities. I...
Katherine, Hi. A side comment. Three years ago my son and a friend were invited into a parents community (Mumsavers.com, now defunct) as hosts of a column on...
Interesting situation Katherine. One part of me thinks you should be grateful to have teenagers on board. They do after all experience parenting on the...
Hi Katherine, all, IMHO it's not a single question :-). It depends on the attitude of the interlopers. If they behave in a "noisy", trollish way (not following...
In her + Culture Blog <http://www.becausestrategies.com/cultureblog/index.php>, Erin Potts of be+cause strategies quotes Clive article in this month's Wired...
OK, while cruising the yahoogroups blog I found the new beta maps program. I'm liking this, because this is a feature we have wanted in an international group...
Y'all might find this blog from the Yahoogroups people interesting - especially if you run a yahoogroup! http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/ nancy Nancy White |...
I was doing maps with red dots on them in 1995. :-) http://www.panix.com/~barbara/map1.html I'm so very glad the programmers decided to give their efforts to...
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Attendr will do the same thing I think. Paul Schumann 512.632.6586 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Thanks for the link, I've used Attendr before and one of the tools on Facebook, but this is a very cute and simple to use tool. I wonder if they'd let me add...
http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/07/24/free-workshop-facilitating-online-communities/ The inimitable Leigh Blackall of the Educational Development Centre of...
Would you like to put your mark on the next Mailman/Google Groups/etc.? E-Democracy.Org is plotting a design sprint for its use of the GPL open source...
Would you like to put your mark on the next Mailman/Google Groups/etc.? E-Democracy.Org is plotting a design sprint for its use of the GPL open source...
Zenergy's Online Facilitation Skills Programme is coming up and runs from 1 September - 9 November. If you are looking to extend your online skills and learn...
I am in Wellington, New Zealand and work in a central government agency with one of my main responsibilities as programme manager for online participation...
Hi everyone, I'm a Portuguese teacher who teaches EFL and German at a secondary school in Portugal. My interest in using technology in teaching has grown a lot...
Hello, Laura, welcome... and thanks for the link. Your team's PDF guide for e-government participation initiatives is superb (and the process that seems to...
This is really good article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html - a reportage from the 'land of the trolls' with quite a bit of...
Hi Zbigniew, thanks for the link. It's scary indeed. Firt, because the troll environment the author reports about seems larger and meaners than I've...
I'm posting this on behalf of TechSoup. TechSoup's NetSquared project is in the process of developing curriculum to help nonprofits use social media...
Another story: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11792535&mode=comment&intent=readBottom On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM,...
Hello, I'm after recommendations for software to use with online consumer communities. Obviously we have things like Ning or even Second Life. Possibly...