Good News for ACT-KM & NETWORKS RULE!
I just heard tonight that the great ACT-KM group which lost it's Yahoogroups archives and membership lists in mid- January has gotten them back. The issues are getting clear. You can read about it on the following Yahoogroups: Com-prac and Onlinefacilitation.
The community is sharing the story, but the bottom line is after hearing from many people, Yahoogroups stepped up and restored the group. The work to restore it, both on the part of the ACT-KM leaders and Yahoogroups, is a testament to networks and to some people who believe in both communications and communities. These individuals connected around the issue, activated their networks, and took action, outside and inside of Yahoo. Blogs helped spread the word. What none of us could do alone, we were able to do collectively.
I have said for quite some times that the Yahoogroups millions of list "owners" and community leaders are an important group of people - not just to their groups and communities, but to Yahoo.
I had a little brain fart tonight thinking, gee, wouldn't it be fun to convene a summit of group leaders to brainstorm ways to improve Yahoogroups? Wouldn't Yahoo gain a lot? Hint hint!
Wouldn't it be wild if WE, the leaders, convened it and invited Yahoo? I think I will dream of online community summits tonight...
Technorati Tags: yahoogroups, act-km, networks, onlinecommunity
posted by Nancy White at 9:22 PM
2 Comments:
I'd be up for a summit of group leaders, in one form or another - though I'm not sure how you can meaningfully attract the long tail of 10-15 person sized groups where there is also a lot of value.
(I'm an organizer on 3 lists that are 200-500 users big)
I had not even started to think about size of group. Lets maybe imagine this for a while and see what we can dream up.
I just started a discussion forum at QuickTopic for our topic "Yahoo Community Summit". To join in (or just to read) use your web browser to go to:
http://www.quicktopic.com/35/H/Riqs3LTUy2RX
You don't have to register or sign in, and you can choose to receive email for newly posted messages -- just click the Subscribe button when you get there.
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