i was amazed to see yesterday that there were more than 190 members already. <br><br>on the strength of what i've seen so far, i've built one of these ning sites for my neighborhood. i think it will be a useful "community bulletin board" for opening space. we have a woman here who teaches women's fitness. we have a guy who calls the occasional "men's book group" meeting, usually when a good game will be on at the local tavern. (the group has never actually picked a book to read.) and then there are neighborhood association official sorts of events. and i expect ning will put all of these and many more on the same sort of level-ish field we find in our circles and spaces. i'm just starting to leak word of it out to neighbors, but the folks who've seen it are excited.<br>
<br>thanks to artur and lisa and shufang, and the other 190 folks who jumped right in, for showing me how this works. <br><br>m<br><br><br clear="all"> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates<br><br><a href="http://www.michaelherman.com">http://www.michaelherman.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Suzanne Daigle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaigle4@comcast.net">sdaigle4@comcast.net</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;">
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Add my voice to Arthur</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">s</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">…</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">plus Harrison you don</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">t get to see the cool photos on the OS list</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">the</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">re were some really</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">cute</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">ones in Toronto at the Unleashing leadership event</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> not to mention great OS reports from the sessions.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://unleashingleadership.ning.com/photo/dsc02857-1?context=latest" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">http://unleashingleadership.ning.com/photo/dsc02857-1?context=latest</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Hope the butterfly feels enticed to peak! If not, that</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">s ok too.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Suzanne</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2">From:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> OSLIST [<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="2">On Behalf Of</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2">Artur Silva<br>
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Sent:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:54 AM<br>
</font></span></p><div class="im"><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2">To:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span></div><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Subject:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> Re: The new Ning community - some central questions</font></span><div>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Harrison:</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">I don´t think that is a question of being old or curmudgeonly. After all you have your own web page (and have revised it often) and you are at Facebook (aren't you too old to Facebooking?)</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">And one can see what is hapenning in the NING without even subscribing. Haven't you been curious to see what is hapening there?</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Or are you affraid of something that is hapenning simoultaneously in many languages that you can´t neither understand nor control (no one can)? What is more close to self-organizations at work?</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Isn't that, I would not say a "resistance to change" (because no one is changing, but only complementing), but a resistenace to something new and different? </span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Please think about it, will you?</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Friendly</span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us">Artur</span></p>
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--- On<b> Sun, 12/6/09, Harrison Owen</b><b><i> <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>></i></b> wrote:</span></p>
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From: Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] The new Ning community - some central questions<br>
To: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 6:14 AM</span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Hi Guys – This is all wonderful, but truth to tell I don’t’ NING (or whatever). Too old and curmudgeonly I suppose, but for those who care, I’ll be there on good old OSLIST .</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Harrison</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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