http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/ notes on the evolving life of the socius online Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:36:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Andy Roberts Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:36:27 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/#comment-481 I wish you the best of luck with the Canterbury issues forum and offer some advice from myself based on experience with the Newham issues forum and many years with other online communities. If you don't want to spend at least two years bumping along the bottom while building critical mass then I strongly suggest that you do NOT accept the advice from Minneapolis which will be to set the default reply to individual senders rather than to the group. This unnecessary obstacle has made persistent conversations few and far between in Newham, UK and you have a chance to get off to a better start than that by setting the norm as group conversations rather than announcements that rapidly fizzle out. I wish you the best of luck with the Canterbury issues forum and offer some advice from myself based on experience with the Newham issues forum and many years with other online communities.
If you don’t want to spend at least two years bumping along the bottom while building critical mass then I strongly suggest that you do NOT accept the advice from Minneapolis which will be to set the default reply to individual senders rather than to the group. This unnecessary obstacle has made persistent conversations few and far between in Newham, UK and you have a chance to get off to a better start than that by setting the norm as group conversations rather than announcements that rapidly fizzle out.

]]> http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Dan Randow Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:19:18 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/#comment-339 We had ten people at the public meeting. Here's a <a href="http://onlinegroups.net/r/post/141965" rel="nofollow">report on how the meeting went, and our plans</a> from here. We had ten people at the public meeting. Here’s a report on how the meeting went, and our plans from here.

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