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I agree with the first poster--if you have a rack (which hopefully implies "climate controlled room with rack already installed" then rack-mounted servers are saner. It is time to consider cloud servers, too. Instead of purchasing and maintaining physical servers, we have started using Amazon's web services (AWS). Right now, it's *nix only,
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We've just been using twitter for a couple of weeks at http://www.twitter.com/jwaonline So far, it looks like an interesting experiment in presence--different tweets say different things about our organization. Longterm, I am hopeful that we'll reach some new people, and keep our existing friends aware of what we are doing.
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I liked the methodology cited in the article, but was quite at a nonplus as to description of why several items were taken out of consideration. In many cases (from Sharepoint to Manilla) blogging or RSS were described as external to the application, when current well-known instances of the tools do just fine with both. I have to assume that the evaluation
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I agree very much with Moshe. Whenever I think about building community around an organization, I am very cognizant of the late Jane Jacobs' work on face-to-face community, "Death and Life of Great American Cities". When I read that work years after I had begun work on online community I was started at the parallels, and then reflected that people
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I've just run across an interesting free tool hosted by the Center for History and New Media. It's called Survey Builder. The surveys are hosted by the CHNM. http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/ Has anyone used it? It looked good, based on what I read in Digital History (new book by folks at the Center: Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rozenzweig; book
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Phil Greenspun's ArsDigita Community System has attracted a lot of neat attention. See http://www.arsdigita.com/products/ or www.arsdigita.com/free-tools/ . It does require some serious computer skills to be installed, modified, etc. it was original developed using AOLServer and Tcl and Oracle. As I understand it, it is currently migrating to Java
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interesting article, but what are M&A communities?
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I can tell when i've been online too long--those are excellent points, Khandra, and I totally forgot about them. But when we first got online, one of the first things we noticed was that there were discussions we could hold online that simply couldn't/wouldn't happen face-to-face. In our case, these included discussion about circumcision
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jsalmons just mentioned quick topic in another discussion. I'm not sure what to call this category of services. "List Managers" used to be quite specific to the software used to manage lists--listproc, listserv, majordomo, lyris. But for most organizations, using a list/community hosting service makes much more sense--there is no one local to set
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Ah, I see. I'm used to the HTML managers skipping commands they don't know, but defaulting to displaying the unknown command--in this case, displaying the text. I slipped into using a convention from other systems for indicating use of a login rather than a name. Sorry.