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I wonder if the OAC should explore some connections with existing anthropology organizations. There are so many things to join, social networking sites, endless listservs...I fear I will never get back to reading, teaching, and doing ethnography in that other world, the one with material objects in it.
we plan to move to our own domain
How do you guys propose to do this? A migration to an other domain usually leads to a loss of information (like user resistration, posts, ...).
I think ning works out fine. If you mind the ads, just install Adblocker or something similar. I didn't even know there where ads on the main page!
reorganize the Groups
This one should be a priority, imo.
reorganize the Groups
This one should be a priority, imo.
I'm working on enhancing the functionality of groups. I can't do much about the way Ning structures the groups section, but I'm experimenting on a way to better display group content. Updates on that soon. Any/all ideas welcome!
Jan Begine said:
reorganize the Groups
This one should be a priority, imo.
One thing that I would find helpful is some pruning. Seems to me that if a group remains inactive for, say, a month or so, it should be archived and disappear from the top and group pages. This step would, I suggest, offer several benefits.
1. It would make it simpler to see where the active interests of our members are. 2. It would provide an incentive for those who start groups to work a bit harder to generate activity. 3. It would clear the way for people to create new groups for old topics that are stuck because previous discussions have ground to a halt, and nothing is more discouraging that checking out a group that looks interesting and discovering that the last activity was several months ago. It could, of course, be argued that the "My groups" list and the choice of "largest," "most active," etc. already provides a mechanism by which individuals can pick and sort groups as they choose. I think, on the other hand, of the title of my favorite book on Website design, Don't Make Me Think.
Francine Barone said:I'm working on enhancing the functionality of groups. I can't do much about the way Ning structures the groups section, but I'm experimenting on a way to better display group content. Updates on that soon. Any/all ideas welcome!
Jan Begine said:
reorganize the Groups
This one should be a priority, imo.
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