Re: Project PM, getting you involved
Subject: Re: Project PM, getting you involved
From: Tim Ellis <dynamic@nocturnalcommissions.com>
Date: 6/1/10, 22:05
To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>

Hi Clark,

Sorry for the delay in response time. I was out of town for the weekend; that will almost always be the case, so if we find in the future that you need faster replies over weekends I'll pass along my phone numbers (see below). Texting is infinitely preferable to phone calls on both lines, but I am able to send and receive both. I am also happy to log on to Google Chat as needed, though I do not habitually leave it online as I prefer not to have to deal with a zillion instant messages, but feel rude ignoring them.

I agree that the Africa project is a good trial run for techniques and implementation, particularly as if we are successful, we can spin off or adapt the Africa project quite easily. It is perhaps worth considering the public relations aspect of saying things like "using Africa as a trial run", but I suspect that can be resolved simply by watching our terminology and messaging.

I'll move the rest of this over to the blog so as to keep everything in one place.


Tim Ellis
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Tim,

I was interested in your comments on our Google docs, and I'm glad you have found some organization to them. Actually, I have come to the conclusion that a Google document is not the ideal way to document collaboration, and I am right now experimenting by setting up a very basic Blogspot blog (it can have up to 100 authors) and adjusting the settings to see if it can serve our purposes better than a document where all the indexing must be provided manually. Scott Mintz is helping me with this.  Later this weekend, after we have tinkered with it some more, I am going to share the blog with you and ask for your input. What I like better about the blog format so far is that it prompts everyone to use Headings and searchable tags, and automatedly displays contributor ID and date.  For now, the blog will not have anything in it except placeholder items to tinker with--we will be sticking with the Google docs until we conclude the group blog is better, if we do.

We see the Africa project and the media project as essentially the same effort at the underlying level: how do we capitalize on our newly increased ability to share knowledge for the benefit of our community and the world?  So what we learn about documenting and sharing for one will be applied to the other. There will be more media project activity later in the summer, and I am quite glad we went ahead with the charitable sub-project in advance of the main project, because we are learning a lot about working together online. I am pleased you are interested in this aspect of what we are doing.



Clark Robinson
Chicago
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