A question for Julius

[Peter Deitz]

Julius,

I just had another look at your page with the big questions that Social
Actions should be asking:
http://groups.google.com/group/social-actions/web/questions

This page was drafted after our first google group conversation (end of
March). Some of the questions have been somewgat addressed, and others
remain painfully overlooked. I have attempted to separate the two sets
below.

From the set of questions that have been completely ignored, what
questions do you think need to be answered before we can start to draft
a budget for the remainder of 2008 (Christine's request last week)?

Thanks,
Peter

***Questions we have somewhat addressed ***
- What reasons do all parties have to participate?
- If I have a platform site, could I make myself obsolete by sharing?
- Why would a user visit my site if they can go to a meta-site?
- How much data needs to be shared? All or would personal profile (name,
password, email, address, etc) be enough to connect these sites?
- Sure there are enough ways to make money out of Social Actions, the
mash-up, or other ideas. But what would feel fair? What would be fair?
What would be needed to it running? What do we want to do when we can
generate more money than is needed? Is that realistic?

***Questions we have painfully overlooked***
- Should we form some sort of label?
- What are the boundaries, what would be the scope of a Social Actions
label?
- What would be the goals (those should be super-clear or everything
would fall apart in 1 year)?
- What would be the rules we want to hold ourselves to?
- How could we use the power of this group?
- How would it be managed, bottom up seems to make sense, but how exactly?
- What do we do when a platform in the group breaks the rules?
- What happens when we don't like a platform anymore.
- What if the company isn't interesting in helping anymore?
- When we mash-up info from a number of sites, how do we make it
understandable for the end-user where the information is coming from,
where he/she can make changes, connect to the people responsible, etc.
- The conversation around and within social campaigns is potentially
something of great value, both as a change catalyst for people reading
it, and as a source of intellectual capital for refining the tool, and
refining future campains - how do we maximise this value for bystanders,
active users, the source org of the social action, and ourselves, the
tool designers?
- What online collaboration tool would be best to use for the creation
of the mash-up?

[Julius Huijnk]

I'm a bit less on this Google Group due to a bit of energy management.
When other projects start to lay low for a bit, I'll catch up.

Most important as I see it:
What do we have, where do we want to go, what does it take to get us
there.
And if you got those figured out; are there very likely problems that
will occur in the future (when we are getting there) we can start
finding solutions for right now?

Or to grab some of the list above:

- What are the boundaries, what would be the scope of a Social Actions

(label)?
- How could we use the power of this group? (And what is the power of
this group?)

- What do we do when a platform in the group breaks the rules?

Julius