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We've posted an online survey requesting feedback about our Online Communities service, as well as other collaborative software you've used inside and outside of ALA. We're hoping to use this feedback to evaluate the current OC product in order to decide if we should continue forward with it, start with something new, or find a mix of products. Or do something else we haven't thought of yet. Basically, we want to know what you need so we can help deli

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At 3:04pm on July 16, 2007, Elizabeth Bel said…: Hi! I found you on the ALA site, and am happy to see our 2.0 community presence growing. Great work! I'm looking forward to seeing new developments.

At 3:46pm on June 9, 2007, Barbara Fister said…: Well, here I thought I was the last to come to the party. Turns out it's a party planning session. Whatever, I brought the chips.

At 6:18am on May 25, 2007, Lisa Coleman said…: Hi Jenny, thanks for moving the meebo room. Much, much better placement. Have a good day!

At 7:49am on May 24, 2007, Sheila Kearns said…: Are you willing to share a relatively simple "cookbook" of how you set this up? I am thinking of proposing an implementation to our state library association (VT). I can work my way through a simple set-up of my own, but any parallelism between an ALA members Ning and a VLA members Ning,might be good way to draw in users.

Sheila

At 4:49pm on March 13, 2007, theshiftedlibrarian said…: Hi, Bill. Actually, I'm not sure what to announce. Internally, we've talked extensively about creating a social network for ALA members. Certainly I know what *I* envision. I exchanged emails with the CEO of Ning in January to discuss their scalability and extensibility, but right now I don't have any money to build anything.

I had planned to create an experimental one on Ning as a testbed/sandbox where it wouldn't have to be "official." When you created the L2 network, it was the nudge I needed to actually get in here and do it. I let it sit, partly as an experiment to see if anyone would find it (and sure enough, a couple of people did) and partly because I got bogged down in other projects. But I was also watching what happened with your site. I have to say that I've experienced enough lag time and connection errors with Ning that I'm not at all convinced it can host ALA's social network.

However, I do think we could start something here that could eventually evolve into the royal "Social Network" we want to implement, but I'd love to get your thoughts on this. Do you think folks would be okay starting here - providing feedback, participating, and connecting - and then be willing to transfer (maybe even start over) when we implement the "real" network?

I'd also be curious to know how much of your time is taken up by the care and feeding of the L2 network, as I figure I'm the only person here who would really do that with a Ning-based member one.

I was thinking about blogging it myself, just to get this kind of feedback from a range of folks. I love that you were able to come out of the gate swinging, though, and certainly my personal preference would be to just do *something," even if we catch some flak for it later.

At 9:07am on March 13, 2007, Bill Drew said…: Don Wood told me about this new network. How soon will you be announcing it? I do not want to steal any thinder by talking about it prematurely.