Michael . .. What you describe is out there www.ning.com
I have a site up @ www.realestatetowncenter.ning.com if you wanna play inside just pop in and request entry. It's a complete "Social Network" Customizable Can be private/secure Each Member can have personal and blog pages the "Main page" reports every member action Chat is there Discussion board to collect threads Members can form groups I believe this site IS on-line OST Anyone can create a ning site and it's free (you can pay for an upgrade, but I have not needed to) Hope this helps, b On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Michael Herman <mich...@michaelherman.com>wrote: > 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 > -- twitter @barryowen Barry Owen Principal Real Estate Broker Keller Williams Realty Nashville, TN - Green Hills 615-568-2123 Simply & BOLDLY Living the FourFold Way in Open Space! The Owen Group - http://www.theowengroup.net http://www.squidoo.com/Real-Estate-Market-CPR http://www.squidoo.com/Tennessee-Foreclosures http://www.squidoo.com/transformation-self-organization http://www.squidoo.com/realestatetowncenter Blog http://www.activerain.com/barryo Blog http://www.creatingspaces.blogspot.com Video - Live Streaming http://www.stickam.com/barryowen Also on Facebook, Plaxo, Linkedin, Skype Quintessentially connected to the real estate industry to offer the ultimate experience for Home Buyers and Sellers in Middle Tennessee . . . Inquire within! * * ========================================================== 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
