http://cbasturea.ijot.net/

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Is this useful? What can be left out? What's missing?

thanks

david parmet

Excellent first steps.  Will give it a thorough review and add more to your
work tomorrow (but I am getting plugin hell on that page at the moment).   I
am definitely hoping we can see some ideas from other people where we can
start mashing it all together in a collaborative document / site that
everyone can edit.  My hope is that others here can write a blog post (or
send a message to the list if you prefer) about some of the major elements
of this work as a first step as Constantin did.

Some of the key issues I would love to see addressed by members are:

 - What do we call it? - Social Media Release, Social Media Press Release,
New Media Release, New Media Press Release ? (I don't want to get caught up
in this issue too much at the outset, but I am interested in hearing
opinions around this now - in the meantime we should all understand that any
of the above terms is really referencing the same idea.  Ultimately the
microformat standard will most likely be called hRelease according to their
naming schema, so perhaps we can use that as our tag for now?)

 - How do you define it? - what do you really envision it to be, how do you
envision it to work, what other articles/posts/discussions support your
view, what are the primary benefits and what are potential obstacles to
success?

 - Why do you care about this effort?  What brings you to this group to work
with us in this community process?

 - What are your big concerns about the project and how might we be able to
address them adequately to ensure a greater chance at success?

 - What are the areas that need to be addressed (can write your own first
draft to be integrated or simply build on what Constantin has just posted)

This is a great way to do introductions as well - so please be sure to also
introduce yourself to the group when sharing your thoughts on the format.

All my best,

Chris Heuer
http://www.socialmediaclub.org/

On 7/5/06 3:34 PM, "Constantin Basturea" <cbastu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think we should have a brief discussion about which tools we are using
here and what we need to do.  In a BrainJam we did at UC Berkeley back in
February, we identified the need for agreement concerning the tools and the
language we use as keys to success in cross organizational boundary projects
such as this.  

As I see it, our requirements for collaboration are:

1 - Email based discussion list with strong search capabilities
2 - A common tag we can use for all posts to make it easier to follow along
the other elements of the discussion such as blog posts, events, social
bookmarks, photos etc...
3 - A collaborative, group editable workspace for gathering and formalizing
everyone's input into a codified body of knowledge
4 - A document repository
5 - A directory of other members (so we can talk with one another and let
others know who is involved and pushing this forward)
6 - A space to publish the formal technical spec (done -
http://www.microformats.org/)
7 - Weekly or Monthly VOIP based conference calls and/or IRC like chat
8 - ((are there any other requirements we should add to this list???))

I have favorites in all of these areas (ie Google Groups for requirement #1)
but am really open to all possibilities.  In the past week both
http://www.peopleaggreagtor.com/ and http://www.goingon.com/ have launched -
we have an offer from Ross @ http://www.socialtext.com/ to use their tools
and we can get setup on pretty much any other one for free fairly easily
through friends.

This is not an area to get caught up in too much, but if we all start using
our own tools it will make it hard to collaborate with one another.
Unfortunately, they just don¹t work together all that well right now, so no
one will be completely happy with the toolset we choose. I would prefer an
all in one solution, but have not seen one that I really like for how I
work.

I created a survey with Survey Monkey to see what the preferences are, and
to catch other suggestions.  If someone would be interested in polishing the
survey, I can give you admin access, but wanted to do something fairly
quickly to get some early feedback and go from there.

Please take a couple of minutes and respond to the survey here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=370832329856

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With love and respect,

Chris Heuer
Chief Jam Leader, BrainJams
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