[p2p-research] Social Media Update.

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Dmytri,

ning is like a facebook without frills, it's less efficient for networking,
but better at forums and discussion ...

but our ning is rather weak, because it has no maintainer, and I'm
overwhelmed, but it is not dead and the one big advantage is the visibility
of the 'members'

I use it as a secondary  blog, for putting things when the regular blog is
full, or when it has a more pragmatic/practical nature ... i.e. conference
announcements, calls for assistance, etc...

what works best for us in terms of audience is the wiki (8m page views in 3
years), the blog (reaching 2,500 readers per day), and the very active
mailing list (600 contributions per month); it's the latter that really
keeps the community together I think, though I have no idea how many people
read it .. but about 20 people are very active contributors ..

My rule is, if  you don't give, you don't get ...<g>

here is a guy that nailed it well:

http://valuenetworks.com/public/item/236628

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>wrote:

>
> Hi Michel, no that was one of many typos in that hasty writen
> submission.
>
> Thanks, I wil post that to Ning as well.
>
> How is Ning working out for you? Curious, don't see the point in it at
> this stage, as it still has all the faults (centralized, capitalist,
> etc) of Facebook, but not the reach. Any comments as to how Ning has
> been usefull in a way that say a facebook page and/or group would be?
>
> cheers.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>  Hi Dmytri,
>>
>> is  your use of p2p2 intentional, or a typo?
>>
>> Feel free to post your appeal on Ning as well,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>      As mentioned in an earlier thread, my experements with social media
>>      continue. I am quite ciritcal of so-called "Social Media," and see it
>> as an
>>      enemy, not an ally of p2p2, dispite this, to realise the
>>      goals of the venture communist project telekommunisten we must
>> exploit all
>>      possible avenues of building our community and support for worker's
>>      controlledi
>>      enterprises and worker's control of production broadly, and so
>> therefore,
>>      must communicate where the people are, not where we think they should
>> be.
>>
>>      As part of this effort, we have set up a telekommunisten facebook
>> page:
>>
>>      http://www.facebook.com/telekommunisten
>>
>>      If you are a facebook user, we would love to have you join (or
>> "become a
>>      fan" in the facebook venrnacuar), and if so inclined, share the page
>> and/or
>>      invite your friends, help us penetrate deeper into the facebook
>>      userbase.
>>
>>      Feedback, comments, questions, etc, are also welcome very welcome.
>>
>>
>>      --
>>      Dmytri Kleiner
>>      editing text files since 1981
>>
>>      http://www.telekommunisten.net
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> --
> Dmytri Kleiner
> editing text files since 1981
>
> http://www.telekommunisten.net
>



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