I'm forwarding this because more and more there are conversations bubbling up about the role of online facilitation in community networks. Some of our members...
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Steve Brock
stevo@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:51 pm
Number of posts is the true measure if you are using page views to measure success, but what of the quality of the posts? I wouldn't say that one high-quality...
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Nancy White
nancyw@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:00 pm
Welcome to the group Neil! Sounds like you have some stories to tell! I hope you do! Your post reminded me that we have some databases in the ...
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Neil Shapiro
neil@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:02 pm
Hi All -- Some of you may remember me as the guy who helped start Forums on Compuserve more than 20 years ago. I ran the Macintosh communities there for almost...
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Neil Shapiro
neil@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:11 pm
Hi Nancy -- Thanks for the welcome! Just to confuse things right at the start as you were replying to me I was deleting and reposting my first message due to a...
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Steve Brock
stevo@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:51 pm
Hey! I remember Neil. He was the manager of MSN's Science Fiction Community when I was the manager of their Books and Reading Community. We did lots of...
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Max Schupbach
max@...
Dec 2, 2000 12:06 am
dear friends, frequently, we are not aware that we alter long term traditions without reflections, not always to our benefit. The following change of...
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maria.whitney@...
Dec 3, 2000 8:23 pm
Hey there folks .. I've had my nose to the grindstone more or less for the last couple of months ... busy, busy (just like the rest of us!) My last entry...
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Eric Snyder
egs@...
Dec 4, 2000 10:34 am
Hi Maria: I find this VERY interesting. With your permission, I'd like to share your observations with com-prac (Communities of Practice), HRNET and TRDEV ...
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m_chernin@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:56 pm
Hello: I am about to launch a text-based moderated chat, web broadcast for about 75 people using a product from infoChat, a French company . I will serve as...
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jroig@...
Dec 4, 2000 2:24 pm
Hey there, folks... My name is Jon Roig and I am currently the Community Manager at Epotec.com, a behavioral management health information site which sells its...
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jon roig
jroig@...
Dec 4, 2000 5:06 pm
Does anyone out there know the current legal thinking as to how much an online community operator can be liable for inappropriate activities on message boards...
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Nancy White
nancyw@...
Dec 4, 2000 5:54 pm
Hiya Mark A couple of questions: Since you are using a French company, I wanted to check -- do you need a language specific set up? Second, what is their back...
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Monty Hobbs
mhobbs@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:37 pm
Hi, I am a non-lawyer here giving his understanding of the laws in the US ... don't blame me if you get sued in other words ... talk to your lawyer :-) As long...
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maria.whitney@...
Dec 4, 2000 9:49 pm
I will be out of the office from 04/12/2000 until 19/12/2000. I'm off on cross-country LTC Agent training travels. I'll be checking email, and will get back...
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Tim Last
tim.last@...
Dec 4, 2000 10:38 pm
My top three would echo Steve's post, though with a slight modification: 1. Number of posts. 2. Quality of posts (get this data from facilitators), defined as...
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SZS@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:23 am
Hello, I'm Simon Stoker, a new member to this group, just writing to introduce myself, and to ask for some help. I am working on an Electronic Networking...
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Nancy White
nancyw@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:33 am
Welcome Simon! There are some great sources for this type of community networking. There are also again a couple of list members with a great deal of expertise...
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Cynthia Typaldos
cynthia@...
Dec 5, 2000 4:13 am
Hi everyone, If you are in Silicon Valley you may be interested in attending this event at SDForum in downtown San Jose. My company, RealCommunities, will be...
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Neil Shapiro
neil@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:41 am
Not a lawyer here either -- but I have worked with a few on this matter. One of the things you should investigate is a TOS or Terms Of Service agreement. It...
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Roig, Jon
jroig@...
Dec 5, 2000 1:43 pm
Certainly, though, there seems to be a bit of room here, if one structures things correctly. Ebay, for instance, responds to complaints about individual items...
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Margaret Levine Young
margy@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:26 pm
... I'm Margy Levine Young, and I volunteer for the Unitarian Universalist Association, an association of 1,000 congregations in North America. We use online...
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Zane L Berge
zberge@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:17 pm
Jossey-Bass Introduces SUSTAINING DISTANCE TRAINING by Zane Berge SUSTAINING DISTANCE TRAINING shows organizations how to move beyond the initial phases of...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:24 pm
Dear Colleagues, Learning Mastery will be sponsoring two workshops of interest to online facilitators in early 2001: "Process Consultation and Organizational...
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Bernie DeKoven
bernie@...
Dec 5, 2000 4:43 pm
I started a little survey on my website <http://www.coworking.com>. I asked: What are the main benefits of online collaboration? The results so far: the top...
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Steve Brock
stevo@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:26 pm
A large factor in determining responsibility is the concept of "due diligence." I've worked with several communities (most notably the NBCOlympics.com message...
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Bruce Damonte
bdamonte@...
Dec 5, 2000 7:57 pm
"Surprisingly, the more silent members are accessing the database more freguently ... and more perturbing to me, the level and quality of participation appears...
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Max Schupbach
max@...
Dec 6, 2000 7:06 am
Hi friends, has any of you experience with Heymax - www.heymax.com ? They have an auditorium with rows, meaning everybody who "sits" in the same row can talk...
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Nancy White
nancyw@...
Dec 7, 2000 1:21 am
PlanetGov, a Washington Technology Fast 50 IT company, located in Chantilly, Virginia, is seeking a Web Community Manager to work with other community...
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Carter McNamara
carter@...
Dec 7, 2000 5:00 pm
The Minnesota Organization Development Network recently held a training program about virtual teams. We used a complete toolkit for building, leading and...
