An excellent suggestion, Barbara. A Ning Network Creator of an online community myself, I've found it to be a highly user-friendly and successful means of collaboration and community building. Members can participate via blogs, discussion forums, chat, and groups. Additionally they can upload videos, pictures, documents and other files. Network messages can be broadcast to the entire community, etc.
Harmony Harmony Kieding Webmaster for American Homeless Land Model: A Book to Congress: A Speech to Mankind http://www.homelesslandmodel.com/index.html Group Leader/Creator of Homeless Civil Rights and Civil Liberties http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Homelessness Network Creator of SpiritWeb http://spiritweb.ning.com/ Ovre Lang. 51 3110, Tonsberg Norway +47-333-55-700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Barbara COMBES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Barbara COMBES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [DDN] The future of DDN > To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" > <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> > Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 5:40 AM > Rather than use a wiki which can be clumsy, why not ry a > ning - separate > communities and multiple duscussions can occur - can also > be invite > only. > www.ning.com > > :) > BC > > > Vice President, Advocacy & Promotion, IASL: > www.iasl-online.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/LIS/index.php > Transforming Information and Learning Conference > http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/TILC2007/ > Barbara Combes, Lecturer > School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan > University, Perth > Western Australia > Ph: (08) 9370 6072 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is > cheap compared to that > of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite > > This email is confidential and intended only for the use of > the > individual or entity named above. If you are not the > intended recipient, > you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this > email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > email in error, > please notify me immediately by return email or telephone > and destroy > the original message. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Claude > Almansi > Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 5:44 PM > To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > Subject: Re: [DDN] The future of DDN > > Hi All, > > I am answering on the mailing-list (with Bcc to Adam Clare > and Taran > Rampersad) rather than on the wiki because today I have a > problem with > logging in at the wiki (1). > > About: > > "...To make the site easier to manage we propose the > removal of the > communities functionality and discussion boards of DDN and > replacing the > categorization system with tagging. > DDN's strength lies in the active mailing list and TIG > realizes that the > mailing list isn't perfect. In an ideal setup the > mailing list will also > be accessed online and have greater stability. > Online communities encourage discussions between users in > more than one > place, right now that discussion happens on the mailing > list for DDN and > less so on the website. To encourage more discussions we > would like to > implement commenting on most DDN content. ..." > (in > <http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=The_future_of_DDN>) > > - Removal ot the communities and discussion boards: I > agree; at first, > each community had its own discussion board, but this > stopped (around > 2005?), which meant that there could be no diaogue within > the > communities. Anyway, even with that first set-up, there was > little > dialogue in community discussion boards and in discussion > boards in > general. > > - Mailing list: the archive is actually accessible online, > but I'm not > sure it's really necessary to be able to post to it > from the web. > However, until August 2006, the mailing-list archive had > an RSS feed > through which the last messages were automatically shown > bottom right of > the site in the "Featured RSS feeds" (2). That > was a useful > feature: would it be possible to have it again? For > instance by using a > yahoo or a google discussion list that have RSS feeds? > > - Making content taggable and discussable: great idea but > in this case, > would it not be simpler and cheaper to move rather than > revamp? > I'm thinking of Ning.com, where Steve Hargadon set up > <http://www.classroom20.com>. And then he convinced > the Ning > administrators to make a special, ad-less, free offer for > educators and > provide a network for them, http://education.ning.com/ . > One problem > might be back-ups, though. > > > Re Taran Rampersad's addition to > <http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=The_future_of_DDN> > : > "The Membership level is certainly worthwhile and is > one that shows > promise, since DDN membership probably would be tax > deductible, though > that needs to be clarified. While that is sufficient given > enough buy-in > from the community, I'd also suggest continued > monetization of content > through Google Ads (such as those found on email list > archives) and Amazon advertising. Further comments for > funding would > probably require a prerequisite of what TIG has already > tried to do such > that we can avoid repeating things" > I agree. Moreover, how could the payments be made? Some > members may not > have a credit card. > > Best > > Claude Almansi > > > (1) Yesterday evening I was automatically logged in at the > http://wiki.digitaldivide.net wiki, presumably because I > was logged in > at the www.digitaldivide.net main site, and even able to > add some things > on the resource page of the wiki. Today I am logged in at > the main > site, but not at the wiki. > The URL of the log-in link at the top right of the wiki > pages is > <http://www.digitaldivide.net/includes/error.php?pushpath=http%3A%2F%2Fw > iki.digitaldivide.net%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DThe_future_of_DDN> > which a) is on the main site where I am already logged in; > b) has a > message that says: "Error, you must login to access > this page. "; c) > nevertheless also has login ID and password boxes, but > they don't work. > If I try to edit a page, say by opening > http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit, > the page says "Login required to edit", with a > link to the "Log in / > create account" > <http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin> > page, which a) doesn't have a create account option; b) > refuses my main > site login data > > (2) The last recorded instance (Aug. 4, 2006) of the set-up > with > "Featured RSS feed" at the Internet Archive is > <http://web.archive.org/web/20060804125420/http://digitaldivide.net/>). > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi DDN members! > > > > (...) > > > > We've outlined what exactly we'd like to do > and how we plan on doing > > on the DDN wiki. Please take a look at our plan and > let us know your > > thoughts. > > > > Here's the link: > > > http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=The_future_of_DDN > > > > Please remember that it is a wiki and we'd like to > see your ideas > > added to the wiki as well. > > > > (...) > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body of the message. > > > This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended > recipient you must not disclose or use the information > contained within. If you have received it in error please > return it to the sender via reply e-mail and delete any > record of it from your system. 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