Ning is not on the table as an option, in my mind. We're not trying to create another social network.
-Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<coworking%[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]<coworking%[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]<coworking%[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.
