<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you Jack, Karen, Anne, Barry, Thomas and Danilo!<div><br></div><div>I've found your messages (all below) EXTREMELY helpful both for my Haiti organizing work and also for a current client.</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><div><br></div><div>appreciatively,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Jack Martin Leith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Here's a Ning site supporting a conference where I'm facilitating the Open Space bit:</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://cuppcop.ning.com/">http://cuppcop.ning.com</a> </div> <div> </div> <div>Have a look and see what you think. It seems to be working pretty well.</div> <div> </div> <div>Also check out Crowdvine: <a href="http://www.crowdvine.com/">www.crowdvine.com</a>.</div> <div> </div> <div>Pathable <a href="http://pathable.com/">http://pathable.com</a> is good for hooking people up via snazzy name tags.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jack</div> <div><br clear="all">Jack Martin Leith<br>Bristol, United Kingdom<br>Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541)<br>Skype: jackmartinleith<br>email: <a href="mailto:jack@jackmartinleith.com" target="_blank">jack@jackmartinleith.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/" target="_blank">www.jackmartinleith.com</a><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/9 Karen Sella <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karen@luminacoaching.com" target="_blank">karen@luminacoaching.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi John,<br>I have found WebEx to be quite useful...<br>Warmly,<br>Karen<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Hello,<br><br></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best with your search.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Anne A Hiha<br></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My 2 cents . . . <br><br>I've started a Ning site because of a great experience I am having on Seth Godin's Triiibes site.<br><br>I think it's a little too "heavy" to be all that useful as a "warm-up" space . . . <br><br>Seems to be more suitable for longer term community building.<br><br>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<br><br>So . . . Until it "scales" it's not useful for folks who are overwhelmed by the complexity it offers.<br><br>My site is at <a href="http://www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com/" target="_blank">www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com</a> and is a "closed, safe space for REALTORS to explore issues and opportunities facing them in today's complex market"<br><br>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<br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br>b<div><div></div></div></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Hi John<br>Some answers regarding web conferencing.<br><br>In the Genuine Contact community we've tried a few different means for web<br>conferencing/real time meetings. We had some challenges with stability<br>regarding Skype, Messenger (both Yahoo and Microsoft) and have now tested<br>and decided to purchase licenses to use Microsoft Live Meeting which seems<br>more reliable and has good and easy functionality.<br><br>We have also developed ways to facilitate real time distance meetings. We<br>have captured this in a Manual. If anyone is interested there is a file to<br>download from my website. Here's the direct link:<br><a href="http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Resurser%20f%C3%B6r">http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/default.asp?viewset=1&on=Resurser%20för</a>%2<br>0handledare&initid=109&heading=Resurser%20för%20handledare&mainpage=template<br>s/01.asp?sida=84 (make sure to get all of it). Then click on "Kreativa möten<br>på distans". The file is in English!<br><br>Feel free to get in touch with me if I can assist in any other way<br>Warm regards<br>Thomas Herrmann<br></div><div><br></div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Quite good and enough simle is Ning (<a href="http://www.ning.com/">www.ning.com</a>), otrher possibiliti is use if exisisting web communiy (Faceboog, LinkedIN)<br><br>Regards.<br><br>Danilo</span></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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