What about using an ISN like Ning? Kind of like Facebook, but private-labeled for use by any of the participants within the various related events with a membership log-in? One could set up event-specific sub-groups within it... at least, I think so... just thinking out loud.
Cheers, k Karen Sella Coaching: www.luminacoaching.com Consulting: www.integralventures.com Blog: www.lumina.typepad.com Phone: 1.206.780.2998 Skype: karensella lumina fr. L. light, air, opening... The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments. -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Herman Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:55 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: [OSLIST] global proceedings aggregator? here's a new one, i think. for the techies among us. how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say, dozens, or even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one central place. everybody except spammers, of course. videos can be posted to youtube and tagged. photos to flickr. but what about the text proceedings? and there is also the issue of a directory of event locations. hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated application/platform. here are some ideas. -listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside -facebook group - non-public is downside here too -wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up -blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation -twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised everywhere? tagged by location, perhaps? could happen more places cuz could send from cellphones? -blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then let them post comments. -just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a blog aggregator... might miss a lot of sites. -google docs? -blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password, publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for author and location within the post? ...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of ongoing results and actions. could happen. so the system might want to support that. anything else you can think of out there in social networking space that could support such a thing? i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made to function in this way. could all of this be aimed at a single twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag? and somehow captured in a way taht was searchable and scrollable long after the first events occured? then there's the scenario where somehow we get to hack up a new version of the world map <grin>. so that's as far as i can guess, and maybe even a little past that. thoughts? many thanks, m -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates http://www.michaelherman.com http://www.ronanparktrail.com http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org http://www.openspaceworld.org 312-280-7838 (mobile) * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist