global proceedings aggregator?

Fri Apr 3 07:29:47 PDT 2009

thanks everyone.  brain swelliing.  going off to ponder and tinker.
or paint the kitchen.  (real kitchen, not some twisted metaphor!)

first meeting with planning team will be in two weeks.  keep the ideas
coming and i'll keep exploring and reporting.

m

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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:29 AM, John Engle <john at johnengle.net> wrote:
> I've just set up a couple google sites for different groups/projects.
> so far, i'm impressed by usability and functionality. but, it's still early.
> they do a great little 3 minute video on how to use. and, like google docs
> etc, it's free!
> http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html
> the other thing that's nice in using google tools is that people are getting
> used to them in google docs, google groups, google calendars etc.
> here's what wikipedia has to say:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JotSpot
> google sites may have limitations in terms of all that you're hoping to
> achieve michael.
> but, seems worth considering for a variety of uses.
> john
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> On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Barry Owen wrote:
>
> Michael . .. What you describe is out there
>
> www.ning.com
>
> I have a site up @ www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com
>
> if you wanna play inside just pop in and request entry.
>
> It's a complete "Social Network"
>
> Customizable
>
> Can be private/secure
>
> Each Member can have personal and blog pages
>
> the "Main page" reports every member action
>
> Chat is there
>
> Discussion board to collect threads
>
> Members can form groups
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> I believe this site IS on-line OST
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> Anyone can create a ning site and it's free (you can pay for an upgrade, but
> I have not needed to)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> b
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> here's a new one, i think.  for the techies among us.
>>
>> how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say, dozens, or
>> even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted
>> everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one
>> central place.  everybody except spammers, of course.  videos can be
>> posted to youtube and tagged.  photos to flickr.  but what about the
>> text proceedings?  and there is also the issue of a directory of event
>> locations.  hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated
>> application/platform.  here are some ideas.
>>
>> -listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside
>> -facebook group - non-public is downside here too
>> -wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up
>> -blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation
>> -twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised
>> everywhere?  tagged by location, perhaps?  could happen more places
>> cuz could send from cellphones?
>> -blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then
>> let them post comments.
>> -just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a blog
>> aggregator... might miss a lot of sites.
>> -google docs?
>> -blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password,
>> publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for
>> author and location within the post?
>>
>> ...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of
>> what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of
>> ongoing results and actions.  could happen.  so the system might want
>> to support that.
>>
>> anything else you can think of out there in social networking space
>> that could support such a thing?
>>
>> i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made
>> to function in this way.  could all of this be aimed at a single
>> twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag?  and somehow
>> captured in a way taht was searchable and scrollable long after the
>> first events occured?
>>
>> then there's the scenario where somehow we get to hack up a new
>> version of the world map <grin>.
>>
>> so that's as far as i can guess, and maybe even a little past that.
>>  thoughts?
>>
>> many thanks,
>>
>> m
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