<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've just set up a couple google sites for different groups/projects. <div><br></div><div>so far, i'm impressed by usability and functionality. but, it's still early.<div><br></div><div>they do a great little 3 minute video on how to use. and, like google docs etc, it's free!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html">http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>here's what wikipedia has to say:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JotSpot">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JotSpot</a></div><div><br></div><div>google sites may have limitations in terms of all that you're hoping to achieve michael.</div><div><br></div><div>but, seems worth considering for a variety of uses.</div><div><br></div><div>john</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Barry Owen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Michael . .. What you describe is out there<br><br><a href="http://www.ning.com">www.ning.com</a><br><br>I have a site up @ <a href="http://www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com">www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com</a> <br><br>if you wanna play inside just pop in and request entry.<br> <br>It's a complete "Social Network"<br><br>Customizable<br><br>Can be private/secure<br><br>Each Member can have personal and blog pages<br><br>the "Main page" reports every member action<br><br>Chat is there<br> <br>Discussion board to collect threads<br><br>Members can form groups<br><br>I believe this site IS on-line OST<br><br>Anyone can create a ning site and it's free (you can pay for an upgrade, but I have not needed to)<br> <br>Hope this helps,<br><br>b<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Michael Herman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@michaelherman.com">michael@michaelherman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">here's a new one, i think. for the techies among us.<br> <br> how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say, dozens, or<br> even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted<br> everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one<br> central place. everybody except spammers, of course. videos can be<br> posted to youtube and tagged. photos to flickr. but what about the<br> text proceedings? and there is also the issue of a directory of event<br> locations. hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated<br> application/platform. here are some ideas.<br> <br> -listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside<br> -facebook group - non-public is downside here too<br> -wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up<br> -blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation<br> -twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised<br> everywhere? tagged by location, perhaps? could happen more places<br> cuz could send from cellphones?<br> -blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then<br> let them post comments.<br> -just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a blog<br> aggregator... might miss a lot of sites.<br> -google docs?<br> -blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password,<br> publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for<br> author and location within the post?<br> <br> ...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of<br> what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of<br> ongoing results and actions. could happen. so the system might want<br> to support that.<br> <br> anything else you can think of out there in social networking space<br> that could support such a thing?<br> <br> i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made<br> to function in this way. could all of this be aimed at a single<br> twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag? 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