[Detroit-pm] Getting website back in order...

[Todd Chapman]

I don't think requiring people to join a social networking site to
participate is a good idea. I am a reluctant participant in Facebook and
will not be joining any other sites. One is more than enough! :P

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bill Hess <bhess at techrg.com> wrote:

>  I agree - a wiki/group site would be nice...
>
> I was thinking it would be a good idea to still have our static website for
> general information purposes and then link to a wiki/group site.   Could we
> use something as simple as Facebook or LinkedIn for this?  Not sure how
> everyone feels about using these sites - where FB is more social and LI is
> more professional...
>
> I looked into FB groups and created a Detroit Perl Mongers group - to see
> what is possible:
>
>    - Events
>    - Simple discussion board
>    - FB wall
>    - Photo
>    - videos
>    - Post links
>
>
> I am use some other groups in LinkedIn - but prefer the FB UI to the LI
> UI...
>
> Any other ideas/thoughts???
>
>
>
> Bill Hess
> Technology Resource Group
>
> Office:  248.546.6900 x12
> Fax:     248.546.7310
> Mobile: 248.703.1196
>
>
> Todd Chapman wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I really think a wiki will provide the easiest way to get increased
> participation. Here is one wiki service we could use for free:
> http://pbwiki.com/personal.wiki.
>
> Anyone know of other free wikis?
>
> -Todd
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bill Hess <bhess at techrg.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all - I put in a request to get the website back under pm.orgmanagement and they are working on it.   They do not offer any scripting
>> possibilities for the site - just static content.  This should be OK for us
>> since all we need up there is some meeting announcements, presentations,
>> links, code/scripts and any other useful stuff....
>>
>> If anyone who has presented in the past has presentations in any format -
>> PPT, DOC, PDF, TEXT, etc...  Please email them to me with the date (approx
>> if you forgot) and I will get them up on the site.
>>
>> Moving forward - once the DNS is setup  - if anyone wants to post anything
>> - just let me know and email me the content and I can push it up there
>> pretty easily.  We have to use WebDAV to upload any files...
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any ideas or questions - Thanks...
>>
>>
>> Bill Hess
>> Technology Resource Group
>>
>> Office:  248.546.6900 x12
>> Fax:     248.546.7310
>> Mobile: 248.703.1196
>>
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