Another way to get action on the CoCo website is by tracking the conversations that are happening other places. Because this is the thing with Social Media that almost everybody has their own blog, and then other people comment on them so that conversations are all over the place. When it comes to contributing to this group, I tend to report on things that I think relevant, but I also do a lot outside that is somewhat connected, could be of interest and could create good conversations here, except there is today no easy way to connect the dots.
I mentioned it earlier, but there is a tool that we may want to consider if we are interested, for ourselves and for others trying to get info from the site: I have been working for some time with eCairn (www.ecairn.com), a service that allows you to track blogs collectively. What it is really is a Blogosphere Relationship Management tool. So we could all add the list of blogs that we track that are relevant to Online Cooperation, and then we can also use the tool to track the blogs as well as comments we do on these blogs, or share notes regarding them - including sharing with the rest of the world, through RSS. For example the RSS feed for all the blogs where I have commented is at: http://conversation.ecairn.com/post/feed?key=Qf4X4Cxiw392Ri6oWewwulHfA4H6E9Nn&title=Get+the+filter%27s+RSS+feed&with_filter=49 The beauty with this is that the conversations can keep happening wherever they do, but there is a way now to federate this content into a widget on the Coco website: that same feed above is used to generate a widgetbox widget that I have now on my blog, so that visitors can read my content on the blog but also wherever it is in the comments of other blogs. A similar feed of where the Cocos are talking could be displayed on the Coco site, so that even if there is no post on the blog, there is fresh content from the group every day. In addition to tracking blogs and comments, the tool also gives you info regarding who the blogger is, and what social network he/she subscribe to, so that you can not only comment on posts, but you can also directly contact the blogger when the info is available. Once you get used to it, the tool is actually extremely powerful, and should be a must-have for any brand out there, and anybody trying to monitor and establish some level of influence in one area or another. I have invited Robert to take a look at the service for a Cooperation Commons project, I am happy to invite others in this group to take a look at the project, so that we can discuss the value of the tool for the group and in general. Feel free to contact me at marc at dangeard dot com if you would like to give it a try... On Sep 15, 3:14 pm, Howard Rheingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bill -- > > You raise a good point. Another aspect of good facilitation is > provoking response. Robert has had some success at that. I haven't > worked at it. One good question can set off a cascade of responses. > > Howard Rheingold [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://twitter.com/hrheingoldhttp://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.comhttp://vlog.rheingold.com > what it is ---> is --->up to us > > On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Bill Anderson wrote: > > > Howard et al., > > > I do read almost everything. > > > I've been silent on this thread because I have nothing to add. > > > Some recent topics have been thick and detailed (e.g., Axelrod) and > > right now I don't have time to participate intelligently without > > digging out and re-reading Axelrod. If we were sitting around over > > coffee I might feel differently. > > > -Bill > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Howard Rheingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > We're not doing well at all on the population-to-participation ratio > > in this list. A relatively small number have asked to be removed. > > Maybe the other silent people simply don't read the list, or it is > > filtered to a folder? > > > Howard Rheingold [EMAIL PROTECTED]://twitter.com/hrheingold > >http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com > >http://vlog.rheingold.com > > what it is ---> is --->up to us --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
