SV: [OSLIST] web tools

Sat Jan 10 11:18:49 PST 2009

Thanks John and all who have shared on this thread.

I think you are right John – some time ago I had a conversation with a
professor on the edge of this area – and he told me that he thought the
future of this community networking would be connected to the individual
spaces more and more people put up all over – and that these will be
connected in different ways. Seems there are such opportunities on Facebook
– which I will look into, and I know there are on LinkedIn but that’s
another thing I want to test more.

Warm regards

Thomas

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Thank you Jack, Karen, Anne, Barry, Thomas and Danilo!

I've found your messages (all below) EXTREMELY helpful both for my Haiti
organizing work and also for a current client.

No doubt, a simple, quick, free solution for inviting people to connect
around a conference is Facebook's Event feature. And beyond that is their
Group feature. I had responded to others but never even set one of either of
these up myself. Now I have! Thank you, Danilo!

The advantage here is that Facebook is increasingly part of people's worlds
as opposed to being yet another place to visit. Your insights here, Anne and
Barry are very helpful.

The links to tools you provided, Jack, are fabulous! The ning is set up
better than I've ever seen and the crowdvine and pathable things look super
helpful.

Insights that all of you provided are helping me think these things through.
And, for the online conferencing services, I look forward to spending more
time with your suggestions, Karen and Thomas.

Thanks again!

appreciatively,

John

On Jan 10, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Jack Martin Leith wrote:

Here's a Ning site supporting a conference where I'm facilitating the Open
Space bit:

http://cuppcop.ning.com <http://cuppcop.ning.com/>  

Have a look and see what you think. It seems to be working pretty well.

Also check out Crowdvine: www.crowdvine.com <http://www.crowdvine.com/> .

Pathable http://pathable.com <http://pathable.com/>  is good for hooking
people up via snazzy name tags.

Jack

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2009/1/9 Karen Sella <karen at luminacoaching.com>

Hi John,
I have found WebEx to be quite useful...
Warmly,
Karen
Hello,

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I am in one group that uses Ning and although it is beautifully simple to
use and adapt to your own purposes the uptake has been erratic and limited
to a few.  It seems to me that Ning suffers from being detached from the
rest of the individuals in the group's everyday computer life.  The friend
who set up the group finds linkedIN much more satisfying because there is a
large pool of like minded people engaging so like OSLIST there is rarely
down time.

I myself find just keeping up with the conversations generated in the
various online courses I teach and am a student in leave me little time to
make use of other online networking tools but when my thesis is handed in I
am going to go exploring, because although I have only engaged in Ning, and
this network, I am intrigued.

All the best with your search.

Regards

Anne A Hiha

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My 2 cents . . . 

I've started a Ning site because of a great experience I am having on Seth
Godin's Triiibes site.

I think it's a little too "heavy" to be all that useful as a "warm-up" space
. . . 

Seems to be more suitable for longer term community building.

My experience is that less than 10% of the members are participating at any
given time. Seth Godin's site has @ 3700 folks . . . and somewhere around
200 participate regularly

So . . . Until it "scales" it's not useful for folks who are overwhelmed by
the complexity it offers.

My site is at www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com
<http://www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com/>  and is a "closed, safe space
for REALTORS to explore issues and opportunities facing them in today's
complex market"

3 weeks in and membership is @ 25 and growing daily . . . I really am not
expecting significant chatter there until it hits at least 100 members

Hope this helps,

b

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Hi John
Some answers regarding web conferencing.

In the Genuine Contact community we've tried a few different means for web
conferencing/real time meetings. We had some challenges with stability
regarding Skype, Messenger (both Yahoo and Microsoft) and have now tested
and decided to purchase licenses to use Microsoft Live Meeting which seems
more reliable and has good and easy functionality.

We have also developed ways to facilitate real time distance meetings. We
have captured this in a Manual. If anyone is interested there is a file to
download from my website. Here's the direct link:
http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/default.asp?viewset=1
<http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Resurser%20f%C3
%B6r> &on=Resurser%20för%2
0handledare&initid=109&heading=Resurser%20för%20handledare&mainpage=template
s/01.asp?sida=84 (make sure to get all of it). Then click on "Kreativa möten
på distans". The file is in English!

Feel free to get in touch with me if I can assist in any other way
Warm regards
Thomas Herrmann

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Quite good and enough simle is Ning (www.ning.com <http://www.ning.com/> ),
otrher possibiliti is use if exisisting web communiy (Faceboog, LinkedIN)

Regards.

Danilo

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