Josef, thanks for the links to the Wordpress RSS feed readers. I'm going to try em out and see what works best.
Angel and Alex, I share your vision for a high quality coworking blog. I've put online publications together in the past and found that it's very difficult to get people to write posts on anything but their own platform - especially if there is no compensation in money or links. In these situations, editors become community organizers/ project managers. The Coworking Google Group creates a tremendous amount of content in it's discussion threads - some of it is of a very high quality. We should use these discussions as a primary source of content. We can do this by continuously asking people in particularly fruitful discussions to write a summary for the blog or by writing summaries ourselves. As good as the google group's discussions are, the best discussions are happening on hundreds of coworking space blogs from around the world. We should aggregate that content, organize it through curation/filtering and synthesize it with exclusive posts written for coworking.com. Please look at the IA I proposed. It's not perfect, but it does a few good things: 1. Puts the current coworking.com message into the header of the blog as well as asking people to submit posts. 2. Add a 'blogs' tab for aggregating rss feeds. 'Spaces' might be a better name. 3. Places links to the wiki and google group on the blog's header. I'm going to spend sometime this week looking at the Wordpress options and will let you know what I find. On Oct 7, 10:54 am, Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 Alex. > The Global Coworking Blog just re-launched about a month ago so I'd > like to give this system a fighting chance before we change its guts. > > On Oct 6, 9:08 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > To continue Angel's point, the if the coworking blog were to become an > > aggregator, I'd be very disappointed. Aggregation may generate more content, > > but the quality becomes instantly diluted. > > > Kapost or not, the coworking blog should be a place for thoughtful sharing, > > not aggregated activity. We're doing our best to not editorialize anything > > that goes on the blog, but at the same time, encourage, curate, and garden a > > new and more meaningful place for written content around coworking. > > > That's to say, there's nothing wrong with you writing something for your own > > blog and then submitting it, asking for attribution to you and the original > > post. But I remain strong in my stance that quality will consistently be > > rewarded, where quantity benefits nobody. > > > I know MANY people on this list who have great ideas and experiences, and I > > wish that they'd set aside 30 minutes and write down JUST ONE THING, and > > submit it. > > > -Alex > > > /ah > > indyhall.org > > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Devin, > > > The original impetus for changing the blog was the realization that a > > > company called Kapost existed. We've entered in to an agreement > > > (albeit a loose one) to use Kapost to help them get the word out about > > > their awesome new software and in return we get the service for free > > > for as long as we want it. Alex and I plan to have coworking.com > > > point to the coworking blog but haven't made the switch yet. > > > > Honestly, it would take two seconds to copy blog content using the > > > Kapost contribute button. I am hesitant to move to the RSS option > > > already since I've already spent hours and hours crimping :) > > > > That all being said, if you can make the RSS thing work in WP so that > > > it is still lovely and doesn't turn editing into some nightmarish task > > > (it takes me about 4 clicks to publish contributions now) then by all > > > means! > > > -Angel > > > > On Oct 6, 9:54 am, Devin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the blog. Great crimping! > > > > > Instead of lots of petitioning for people to submit great articles to > > > > the coworking blog, what if you encouraged them to post great articles > > > > to their own coworking space's blogs? Then, ask people to submit > > > > their coworking space's RSS feed to the site. We could have a big > > > > list coworking space RSS feeds (similar to alltop.com) and as editor > > > > you could curate the best articles to go on the homepage. These > > > > articles would then link back to the blogs they originated from: > > > > writers get traffic to their blogs, coworking.com gets awesome content > > > > and everyone gets to see everyone else's RSS feeds in one place. Wins > > > > all around! > > > > > I also think it would be good to integrate coworking.com with the > > > > coworking blog. I uploaded two pages of IA here. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/web/Coworking.com%20Suggesti... > > > > > I can build the RSS aggregation page in Joomla but I'd have to do a > > > > little research to figure out how to do it in wordpress. What do you > > > > think of this idea? > > > > > On Oct 5, 4:53 pm, Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I plan to petition you regularly via a variety of venues to elicit > > > > > your participation in the Global Coworking Blog. The blog has been > > > > > washed, dried and crimped to a new style of awesomeness and now just > > > > > needs your content. > > > > > > Here are some blog titles you can steal for inspiration. > > > > > > 5 lessons that Coworking has taught me > > > > > 10 Ways to make coworking work for you! > > > > > What I would have done differently when I opened my coworking space > > > > > 12 (or 6) reasons to start coworking today > > > > > Top 5 ways that coworking changed my life > > > > > 3 Reasons to start a coworking space in your town > > > > > > ANYONE can contribute to this blog and if my coworking space's blog is > > > > > any kind of example---ANYONE can blog. I'll be your editor and I'm > > > > > very gentle. Use the Contribute button in the sidebar to submit your > > > > > content TODAY!http://blog.coworking.com/ > > > > > > Love, Angel > > > > -- > > > 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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > .com> > > > . > > > 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.
