tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post6923312656705411984..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: Something for Alumni Affairs and School Communications Directors to Think About Regarding Social NetworksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-8545745369599735922009-11-25T09:17:23.510-05:002009-11-25T09:17:23.510-05:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.Writing a Research Paperhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-20130895066461291142009-11-23T11:35:27.902-05:002009-11-23T11:35:27.902-05:00Absolutely. One of the crucial aspects of high-pe...Absolutely. One of the crucial aspects of high-performing networks is that they are free to "unform" as spontaneously as the formed. Once that little collaboratively created silo runs the course of its usefulness... the participants move on to more immediately useful pastures.<br /><br />I am pretty comfy with this. This is one fo the reasons we have chosen to go with Ning for school PD networks. The old way would have been to create some behemoth locked down on a local server. A beast requiring expert resources to be constructed for permanence. <br /><br />The reality is that networks consisting of Web2 tools may really not even be around long. It is the nature of the beast. However, I think once you get comfy with the idea that networks need to be able to move and shake about almost... organically... then losing a bunch of aggregated interactions isn't a scary proposition.<br /><br />We "brand" networks even if it isn't done so purposefully. It's just that oftentimes when a network that was constructed organically as opposed to "officially" loses it's underground feel. And that -as you so nicely state here- is often a dealbreaker.Sean Nashhttp://nashworld.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-8692900717522497422009-11-23T00:09:53.060-05:002009-11-23T00:09:53.060-05:00I've been spending a lot of time thinking abou...I've been spending a lot of time thinking about a new dynamic that I've been seeing on one the listservs I follow, devoted to independent school education: members of the National Association for Independent Schools leadership are participating on the listserv. Not ostentatiously. Not over-frequently. Rarely driving the discussion. More often responding.<br /><br />Seems like that might be the communication directors' and alumni affairs officers' role in these grassroots communities: listen, hear, respond, share.<br /><br />That is: be a member of the community. Takes work, though. And thought.<br /><br />And the thought is the really, really hard part.Seth Battishttp://battis.netnoreply@blogger.com