Hi Sebastian, The specifics of which third-party service to select for which "engagement channel" is a to-be-decided issue. The real point is to keep the cidoc-crm.org site as "clean" of public exposure as possible in terms of our responsibility for interactivity/community-building.
And, as I mentioned, the side-effect benefit is the "built-in outreach" of using such services. I am definitely transitioning to a "least possible exposure" strategy for website design, as fighting back the "scourge" has become a boring near full-time job in too many cases. Disqus (https://disqus.com/) is a super community-building service for quickly and easily incorporating within-page commenting which is one of the leading "leakage" spots for ANY CMS (Content Management System) platform with accessible user accounts -- even if you don't publicize account access, the bots recognize and attack all day, every day. Disqus solves that problem in a blink. Medium.com is a wonderfully creative publishing platform. I was asked to write a "what's your research about" briefing by prospective collaborators at the Internet Archive and started it as a Word document, then got bored and blocked. So I decided to "live out loud" and just write my brief as a blog post at FactMiners.org. I made progress but again blocked. I remembered my experience writing my first non-technical piece in too many years on Medium and decided to move to Medium to see if its intuitive writing platform would "let it flow" and man, did it ever! :D As soon as I put my draft in Medium and started using images, captions, and other expressive features the words and images, my article just flowed. When I got blocked, I wrote the last sentence and Afterword and then kept "course correcting" to get there. Before I knew it I had a kind of manifesto about my research interests -- "FactMiners Fact Cloud and Witmore's Text as Massively Addressable Object" (https://goo.gl/3Vb0lO). I felt such a sense of accomplishment (even though truly few would be interested enough to read it all) that I submitted my article to CODE|WORDS which is a prestigious Medium.com _publication_ by the MCN (Museum Computer Network) folks (https://goo.gl/W3nr58). My article was peer reviewed (not as rigorous as a full journal/conference process, but still it had to measure up) and was accepted for publication. (Actually, this was a "bucket list" item for this year's post-cancer Bonus Round, so it was an even bigger deal for me! :-) ) I now see by my Medium stats dashboard that this article is read a bit every week, and I pick up Kindred Spirit communication because of it. Had I written a Word document and sent it, or even published a blog post on my "wayward" FactMiners.org web site, this article would not have the "outreach" value that it does as a Medium publication. BTW, Medium.com provides "embed code" to incorporate your Medium publications and stories into your own website, so you get to benefit of "outsourcing" while still being able to incorporate the outsourced material directly into your otherwise non-interactive "home" website. It also has a wonderful marginalia commenting system. And there is a pre-publication sharable URL with reviewer comments - via the marginalia features in 'draft mode' which makes this platform ideal with "group writing" as well as "write and review/approve" use cases. I believe this "outsourcing community interactivity/outreach" approach will also allow us to focus the cicod-crm.org web infrastructure to its Knowledge Management primary responsibility of maintaining and providing access to the core documents and data associated with the #cidocCRM. Happy-Healthy Vibes, -: Jim :- > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian Rahtz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 6:21 AM > To: Jim Salmons > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] #cidocCRM SIG New Business Item: Social Media > Engagement > > I take your points, Jim, but i do wonder about > > > > * All community outreach and support features of the new website should be > "outsourced" to the best and most popular appropriate "social communication" > channel available. For example, our obviously-needed Modeling FAQ is > outsourced to Stack/Overflow, within-page commenting to Disqus or Quora, > event calendars to Meetup or Eventbrite, and blog posts, articles, and/or > whitepapers, etc. to a #cidocCRM-topical Publications on Medium.com, etc. > > perhaps its just my age, but I doubt I can follow such a wide portfolio. I am > a > reasonably up to date IT professional, for example, but i have never heard of > Disqus, Quora or Medium.com. Looking now, I don’t know if I have the > patience. Quora, for example, insists I choose 9 areas I am interested in, so > that > it can deluge me with dross….. > > Sebastian Rahtz > Chief Data Architect > University of Oxford IT Services > +44 1865 283431 > > > > >
