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New websites and social networks
I mentioned in a comment a couple of weeks ago that I would create a new social network using Ning. I did that. It took about a week to get the layout right, with easy to read background colors and text. Adding content and deciding what goes on the Main page, and what should be local to My Page will be an ongoing process. The initial setup of new groups, forum discussions, and blogs became like an obsession that occupied much of two days.
Not many friends responded to my invitation to join the network. It say's "Baha'i Group" in the title, which can turn people away. One Little Marais neighbor who is not a Baha'i followed right along as I plugged her into the Bahaiwebdev social network, and then our local network. One more joined after an in-person invitation at Scrabble Night in nearby Finland. Another friend I invited that night has not responded.
Concurrent with that new creation, a nationwide group of Weather Watchers I have been part of for fifteen years, which had been communicating with a simple list of email addresses, decided to come out of the stone age. Surprise! One of my favorites is a high level scientist in California, but he resisted the change, and said he doesn't use the web that much. How does he get the content he reports without using a browser? His address is on aol.
Now the Weather Watchers have a Yahoo! Group and a WordPress website. Like my local effort, it took about four days to get up and running.
At first I thought the failure to respond to my invitations was a personal rejection. I know better, because my local friends really are good friends, and they will tell me when I'm out of line.
On the other hand, I should take it personally. The Weather Watchers I have never met in person. They don't see my facial expressions, except a profile photo now, and a written blog or weather report has no tone of voice. I wonder about the same thing the Baha'i Group and Friends Lake County MN. Maybe instead of a Moderator to approve new members, we need a Sensitive to check our written emotional impact.
Here are the links:
http://bahailakemn.ning.com/ You are welcome to view it, I think, but if not please join, especially if you are in the NCLC, because that meets my intention to include like-minded groups.
Weather Watchers Online you can view without joining.
http://www.njwx.info/wxwol/
Not many friends responded to my invitation to join the network. It say's "Baha'i Group" in the title, which can turn people away. One Little Marais neighbor who is not a Baha'i followed right along as I plugged her into the Bahaiwebdev social network, and then our local network. One more joined after an in-person invitation at Scrabble Night in nearby Finland. Another friend I invited that night has not responded.
Concurrent with that new creation, a nationwide group of Weather Watchers I have been part of for fifteen years, which had been communicating with a simple list of email addresses, decided to come out of the stone age. Surprise! One of my favorites is a high level scientist in California, but he resisted the change, and said he doesn't use the web that much. How does he get the content he reports without using a browser? His address is on aol.
Now the Weather Watchers have a Yahoo! Group and a WordPress website. Like my local effort, it took about four days to get up and running.
At first I thought the failure to respond to my invitations was a personal rejection. I know better, because my local friends really are good friends, and they will tell me when I'm out of line.
On the other hand, I should take it personally. The Weather Watchers I have never met in person. They don't see my facial expressions, except a profile photo now, and a written blog or weather report has no tone of voice. I wonder about the same thing the Baha'i Group and Friends Lake County MN. Maybe instead of a Moderator to approve new members, we need a Sensitive to check our written emotional impact.
Here are the links:
http://bahailakemn.ning.com/ You are welcome to view it, I think, but if not please join, especially if you are in the NCLC, because that meets my intention to include like-minded groups.
Weather Watchers Online you can view without joining.
http://www.njwx.info/wxwol/
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