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- Are you a member of ALA?
- Yes
- Your personal website:
- http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/
- What was the last book you read?
- Gamers...in the Library?! The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages by Eli Neiburger
- Do you use an RSS reader/aggregator?
- Yes
- How long have you been a member of ALA?
- 1 year
- How many ALA conferences have you attended in person?
- 3-5
- Do you read AL Direct when it arrives in your email inbox?
- Yes
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Help Us Help You Collaborate Online
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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Posted on August 8th, 2007 at 12:52pm —
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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.