Personally I tried NING for my own network a while back and could just never warm up to using it. JMTCW.
-Mike Schinkel Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking http://ignitionalley.com On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Mike Pihlman wrote: > TVO member Phil has the Coworking Cube. It may be possible that discussions > can proceed there? > > Just a possible alternative...??? :-) > > Mike > > http://mobileoffice.ning.com/?xg_source=badge > > > > On 2/9/2010 7:52 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: >> So, Woody just suggested that an active thread be moved out of the main >> channel so as to not disrupt others. While I think it was a good topic to >> keep in the group's visibility, his question of "can I move this to a sub >> folder" reminded me of something. >> >> Google Groups kinda sucks. >> >> To be fair, it's become our home. This is the most active repository of >> information for coworking, and the place where I send people first to learn >> more and meet more coworking people. But the Google Group is anything but >> good for discovery. Spam moderation is chaos for the people who actively >> manage it. The lack of sub-threads is annoying, and the lack of message >> context makes it hard to know what messages to pay attention to. >> >> Recently, the open source javascript library jQuery moved away from Google >> Groups for a lot of these same reasons...to Zoho forums. >> >> I did some research and found that a Zoho forum to support our group would >> cost $75/month, and incur a one-time $500 fee to migrate all of the existing >> data (messages, threads, and even users) from Google Groups to Zoho. There's >> even an option to interact with Zoho via e-mail for those of us that like >> this. >> >> The pros: >> >> * Much better organization of our knowledge. The ability to set >> message "topics" to things like "question", "introduction", >> "idea" would be HUGE for this group. >> * Easier on-boarding for new members >> * Better spam moderation tools >> >> The cons: >> >> * It's not free >> * Since it's not free, somebody needs to pay for it, which means >> somebody is ultimately a "keyholder" >> >> The cons aren't huge, but they do need to be addressed. >> >> I think this could be a very valuable evolution of this discussion forum >> that we all love so much. What say you, the coworking group? >> >> -Alex >> >> /ah >> indyhall.org <http://indyhall.org> >> coworking in philadelphia >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" 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/coworking?hl=en. > > -- > Mike Pihlman > TracyVirtualOffice > "A Coworking Community" > 95 W. 11th Street, Suite 203 > Tracy, CA 95376 > Mobile: 209-608-4340 > Web: TracyVirtualOffice.com > Twitter: @TracyVirtOffice > Skype: tracyvirtualoffice1 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" 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/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" 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/coworking?hl=en.
