[NCUC E-team] SIGs

[Brenden Kuerbis]

Comment inline.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:59 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Of relevance for any interested ET folks:
>>
>> http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/2014-January/001050.html
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>> and related threads.
>
>
> from that msg
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> The biggest loss in my mind in the transition from the ning was the deletion
> of the social networking function that allowed members to create pages

Maybe something like this <http://1net.org/supporters> would be
adequate? It would take care of the "here's me" part. Importantly, it
would be self-initiated, and never look dusty, as it has nothing more
than a picture and link to their own content (which I assume people
have more incentive to maintain).


>and
> create/join groups.

At this stage, I'd agree with Joly. I.e., create group specific
mailing lists as requested and archive them so members can access
them.  Eventually, if there is demand, maybe we provide other
communication tools and archiving.

-- B

>You’ll note for example the recent thread on
> ncuc-discuss about Interest Groups, in which several African colleagues said
> they’d like to join an IG on IG4D.  We have no means now to just create
> groups for people who want to work together on issues, and no way for
> members to say “here’s me.”  I don’t know if there’s anything that can be
> done about that, but would like to hear from folks who are site enabled.
> And if the answer is nothing, then alternatives to consider…
>
>
>
> Surely it would not to be hard to kick up a mailman list and a homepage on
> the site. SIG admins could get "contributor" rights on the WordPress and
> perhaps a category?
>
> Another way might be just to set up p2 wordpresses for the individual
> groups.
>
> j
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