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How to use and structure our conversation containers, forums and topics -

Submitted by George Por on January 21, 2006 - 20:47.

Conversation for growing a shared sense of how to make the best uses of these tools:

Strategically, in terms of their best contribution to emerging collective meanings and intents.

Practically, in terms of how to get forums and topics opened or closed, what are the requirements for those actions, etc.

Some answers

Submitted by Ria Baeck on January 30, 2006 - 00:22.

Kenoli wrote:

"It looks like on this site, a forum and a blog are the same thing."

The Salon blog is there to share ideas, thoughts, dreams etc. The forums are set up to have more in depth conversations around one topic. Whenever you just want to share something, you better do it in the Salon blog.

"If one wants to address the entire group that was at the meeting in Whidbey Island"

If you really want that everybody reads your message, you prabably want to use email, because we cannot make sure that everybody is reading this site regularly. But the easiest way to reach a lot of this group is posting in the Salon blog, because it is shown on the Home page.

"How does "my blog" fit into this."

Everyone could open his/her own blog if wanted or needed. As far I can see it, nobody did it until now. It is like an extra service for people who don't have a blog and want to start one.

"How does the gallery work?"

If you click on the "Photo Gallery" in the Navigation Menu, there is a block that appears on the right side (bug?!) which let you choose "add image", that would be the right way to do it. I don't understand where you see "add gallery"? 

" As far as I can see, there is no "chat" option"

There is not one yet, but the techies are looking for it. There is a proposal by John to use IRC, you find it here as long we don't have it integrated in our site here.

I don't have answers to the other questions. Ria 

 

 

why did this forum delete all my carriage returns?

Submitted by Ria Baeck on January 29, 2006 - 21:48.
There was a posting on this (which I don't have time now for looking it up); you have to choose in Input format (below your text box) "Full HTML" instead of "rich text" which is the default setting up to now. We try to fix it, whithout loosing other 'things'. Ria

A few Questions that might help me comment on the site

Submitted by Kenoli Oleari on January 29, 2006 - 21:28.
A few Questions that might help me comment on the site:
 
1.  It looks like on this site, a forum and a blog are the same thing.  Is this right?
 
2.  If one wants to address the entire group that was at the meeting in Whidbey Island, where on this web site (or elsewhere) would one go to do this? 
 
3.  How does "my blog" fit into this.  Is this where we go to rant individually?  Where does one go to check various people's blogs?  Who will ever read this?  How does this differ, functionally, from the EV Salon blog in function?
 
4.  How does the gallery work?  When I go there and click on "add gallery" I get a new forum topic.  Am I supposed to paste images into the text window? 
 
5.  When I am logged in, I am told who else is logged in.  As far as I can see, there is no "chat" option for contacting these folks directly.  I presume this is here so we know we might be able to make a connection with them in real time through some forum or blog, if they happen to check that forum or blog.
 
6.  Is there any way to turn off the warning this site gives to Safari users.  Everything I have tried seems to work on Safari and Safari is a pretty compliant browser so I would expect it to.  I use various browsers and can avoid Safari for this site but I don't always remember and end up having to shut down warning after warning. (Although, I am wondering if I am losing carriage returns because I am using Safari)
 
7.  As to wikis, not too long ago one of the weak points was the integrated text editor that provides formatting tools.  The problem I struggled with was the fact that some wikis seemed to display formatted text as tagged text without interpreting the tags in certain browsers or on certain platforms.  This seems to have worked itself out, though it is a problem that is a pain in the neck when it shows up. I recently installed media wiki on my computer to try it out and it seems to work quite well and the editor seems pretty stable.  I like the fact that it is php/mysql, an accessible and stable combination.
 
8.  Is there any way to make the comment window larger?  I can only see five lines of text at a time when adding or editing a comment. 
 
--Kenoli 
 
PS -- why did this forum delete all my carriage returns.  Is this one of the "editor" issues I just referred to. Is this Safari?