Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

There will be no Webcast.

Agenda

Notes:

• Please note the new IRC channel: #berkmanbloggroup
• Jack’s Travel Blog
• Congratulate Wendy and Joey
• MF: proposes that people get involved with projects as part of the group and carry them out, report on them at each meeting
  • guest speakers, publishing research, blogging courses, getting politicians into blogging, organizing another conference, raising money
  • j: Gregor’s working on inviting a guest speaker, j’s trying to get research published, j, Josh, Shimon, Garrett, and Kris have an upcoming blog course, j, Garrett, Christina Pikas, and Kris have a panel coming up, Lisa’s working on getting politicians into blogging, so the only two we aren’t actively doing is organizing a conference and raising money
  • JA: if I have time and interest, I might get involved in something
  • WK: we have no funding and people have limited time; getting involved in any projects is up to individual people in the group
  • MF: I brought a draft for press credentials; If I could get online, I could share it
  • JA: guest speakers are a good idea
  • SR: we’ve listed potential guests at previous meetings, someone invite one
• j, Kris, Garrett, and Christina want to run through their panel on blogs and knowledge management on Nov. 4th. How’s that?
  • Yes.
• Marc Canter and microcontent
  • GR: he would be happy to address us, he founded Micromedia
  • GR set it up for Thursday, November 18th
    • what we need for that date:
      • WK: we have the phone
      • WK: Can someone record MP3s?
      • LW and MF: yes
      • SR: Do we need a mic?
• Shimon, Josh, Garrett, Kris, and j’s blog talk on October 30th.
  • JA: What interesting uses of blogs can I share with this audience? How can we give them ideas about how to publish within their organization?
  • RF: Air America Radio uses blogs during their shows
  • AG: Knowledge base, like for security problems or virus information
  • LW: We used Blogger to publish behind a firewall in an environment similar to a law office; we would have found tools like del.icio.us to be very useful, especially if we could invite clients into that; we thought LotusNotes might do that, but it didn’t work for that
  • Erica: closed blogging networks are important, event planning
  • LW: Software doesn’t always serve soft industries, like the service industry, very well; free-form tools like blogs can be valuable because they’re so adaptable
• What about recording meetings as MP3s and posting them later? Does someone have an MP3 recorder we could use for the meetings?
  
• LW: AG, can you tell us about Boston Common?
  • AG: I had a root canal that went bad a few years ago and made a list of all the resources in New England in about two hours.
  • uses Drupal and set up a Boston aggregator
  • Compendium, AG’s corporate blog
  • AG: mentioned policies for mistakes and styles in corporate blogs
• LW: MS, how did you begin blogging?
  • MS: I wrote some things and shared them with friends and they thought I should get into blogging
  • I’ve been blogging for about a year
  • I lived in New York at the time and met a bunch of bloggers
  • MS: got a job through her blog
  • WK: you are the anomaly!
  • LW: you got some stuff through you blog, too
  • WK: not a job
  • LW: just your future husband
  • MS: which is better than a blog
  • MS: writing about fashion for her job, then stopped blogging because she got tired of doing it
  • MF: are you still in the fashion industry?
  • MS: no
    
  • LW: Isn’t this fashion hell, like Elizabeth Spiers thinks it is?

  • MS: No! I can walk around in my pajamas. It’s great!
  • LW: are you fishing for new interests?
    
  • MS: I thought I was going to transfer domains already, but I have to wait.
• LW: Erica: how and why did you start blogging?
  • Erica: about 2 1/2 years ago and I don’t want to say more right now
• j: We can get a calendar with our Yahoo! Group. I sent Je’ a note asking him to enable the feature so we can feel better about scheduling speakers and whatnot.
  • Did you realize our list has about 88 people on it?
• What else?