Ari -- conference.archimuse.com was set up because i saw that:
- people needed a way to find / contact each other both during and after the conferences [we got a lot of "who was that ..." queries] - the conference papers needed an index [we got a lot of "who said that ..." queries] - there was a need to develop a 'memory' about museum use of the web [there wasn't enough knowledge of prior-art in many MW proposals; altogether too much re-invention] does it work? well, people use it as a reference site [the stats show that] and they contribute to an extent, though it came at the same time as a lot of other things and there's a certain SN saturation that i think we all feel. there are also a lot of things i wish i had time to do to make it better... i guess, though, i figure that if it's useful to me, that's something, and i might as well share it. i do know that we're fielding a lot fewer of those basic questions too ;) /jt At 2:52 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: >I should clarify--I wasn't looking for a Museum or Cultural Heritage >site CoP, per se--I love archimuse and several of the others that have >been mentioned here. I was asking specifically about use of Ning (or >related services such as grou.ps) for various networking and CoP >purposes. For those who have used Ning, and the like, what problems >were you trying to solve, and did/does Ning solve that problem? > >ari > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, j trant <jtrant at archimuse.com> wrote: >> hi Ari, >> >> there are now more than 1400 users registered at >> http://conference.archimuse.com -- the online site we've created with drupal >> for the museums and the web conference community. >> >> while contributions are cyclical, related to the rhythms of the meeting, the >> traffic on the site, particularly the bibliography of past papers, is >> constant. >... > >> At 12:20 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: >>> >>> Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet >>> activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep >>> hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used >>> or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if >>> any). >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- __________ J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________
