Now that Ning has announced that it is phasing out free services, it’s time to take another look at our Ning communities and to establish what might be a reasonable alternative to Ning. For my longest-running Ning network, ELESIG, we are prepared: a hard-working group from this community of practice
14:27 Drupal community site looking good for launch – just the posting guidelines to slot in and it’s ready # 07:36 Looking forward to launching our small business portal today # 09:01 A new approach to assessment in HE tinyurl.com/6ocsxp #lff09 # 10:02 Does calling Firefox "Netscape" show one’s internet
Andy Roberts recently posted an excellent comment on his blog about how not to use online communities. It’s well worth a read. His point is that you can’t just pop into a community and use it like a noticeboard, once – especially not for what is essentially an advert. (“You’ll
As an article in the Guardian today points out, travelling among different cultures can be a minefield of misunderstandings and possibilities to cause offence http://www.guardian.co.uk/../culturaltrips “Flowers may seem like the perfect gift to delight your gracious hostess with, but beware, in many countries particular varieties, colours and even numbers have
I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult
In conversations I’ve had recently about public online communities and social networking sites, the point has been made that if a community is moderated (particularly pre-moderated, that is before publication) then it is closer to a “publishing model” and the owners of the community can be seen as responsible for