I agree. Perhaps I´m an old fogie, but I can deal with mailing lists and never even look at Blogs! That said, a web page like face book is a nice web presence - as long as all the important messages come via a mailing list. That list can of course point to interesting things on the web page (for example one does not want to overburden one´s email service with huge attachments). Meg ________________________________________ From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] on behalf of Daniel O'Donnell [daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:52 PM To: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [dm-l] Mailing List, Wiki, Blog or what?
I have some experience in building communities, and I'd say that you should always see the mailing list as core. This is because it pushes information out, but also because it serves as a locus of identity: while people complain about list traffic if it gets too high, they nevertheless do tend to subscribe. Lists like dm-l and globaloutlookdh-l even have people who subscribe and then set themselves to no mail!
In a modern community, I think you want to supplement the list with some other things and try, as much as possible, to see the different channels as different portals into roughly the same information set:
* You need a twitter feed, since many people follow things that way; * You should have a blog for larger items; personally, I'd try to encourage people to contribute guest postings to it, but I've found that hard. I've wondered about somehow using syndication capabilities as a way of capturing content. * You want a news service for community announcements--that does tend to get used if you promote it. * I'm less convinced that wikis work that well for most communities.
Ideally, all should be integrated: so blog posts should be announced on twitter and the mailing list; announcements should go to the mailing list and twitter and show up on the blog (maybe in a sidebar); I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to somehow capture the list traffic on the blog as well: perhaps by adding a page that includes the archive or posting a digest each day as a posting. But I've not worked out any good ideas on how to do that.
-dan
On 13-06-11 12:42 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
On 11 Jun 2013, at 09:03 , Andreas Wagner Andreas.Wagner@em.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
To possibly provoke some comments, here are a few intuitions of mine. Please contradict and challenge (or confirm) based on your experiences, or your intuitions:
- Blogs are easily accessible and can be viewed/read comfortable, but they tend to have a restriced set of authors. Can anyone imagine applying for authorship rights to a blog administration in order to just pose one question or to advertise one conference?
I find blogs not the right tool for community-building -- and possibly also becoming a bit old fashioned!
- Mailing lists are not subscribed to because they look old-fashioned. Being somewhat nerdy myself, they are my personal favorites, however.
Me too. :) But an arrangement that combines, or offers options of either, mailing-list and forum interfaces (e.g. Yahoo and Google Groups both do this, more or less) seems all right. Likewise, a forum that sends me email alerts about new posts or replies is OK.
Cheers, Carl
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