[KI-LC] Kantara Blog

[Paul Madsen]

Have we considered the possibility of the Kantara blog simply 
aggregating suitably tagged posts from our own existing blogs?

paul

Joni Brennan wrote:
> We could have categories for each group (just thinking that might be a 
> quick logical way we'd map the topics).  We'd have to create accounts 
> for each LC member and manage the provisioning of those accounts.  
> Rather than us creating accounts for all LC members could we work from 
> the other direction and ask which LC members want access to the KI 
> blog?  Then we'd create and manage accounts for those who send back a 
> confirmation. 
> 
> We could add a step to the acceptance / approval process where we ask 
> the new members if they'd like access as they come on board.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joni
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, J. Trent Adams <jtrentadams at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jtrentadams at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Britta Glade wrote:
>      > I was thinking the same thing.  However, each DG and WG also has its
>      > very own "news blog" section (check your areas--you'll see that
>     as one
>      > of your pre-set sections).  When this was set up, the thinking was
>      > that this was a means for each group to provide regular updates on
>      > what's going on in a blog format.  This would then be
>     consolidated and
>      > highlighted in the general blog as well as in a regular newsletter
>      > that we are working on too (ie. means to get specific info as well as
>      > consolidated info).  Does that work?
> 
>     I think this is a workable hack, but don't personally believe that this
>     fits the bill as I'd imagine it.  The high-level visibility of the
>     Kantara Blog is what's more valuable to promoting the specific work
>     product agendas.  It's likely that more people will see this than the
>     Confluence blogs per group.
> 
>     Also, it looks like Britta is the author of Robin's posts.  Even though
>     his name's in the text, it's not tagged as the author in a common way
>     (meaning that some indexing services won't recognize it).
> 
>      > I suppose alternatively we could have different categories on the
>      > general blog that correspond to the different work/discussion areas
>      > and it would be sortable that way.  Joni may have more to add here as
>      > well.....
> 
>     This appears a more useful idea than what we have now, but the question
>     is how we feed the posts.
> 
>     - Trent
>      >
>      > Thanks.
>      >
>      > --b.
>      >
>      > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:49 AM, J. Trent Adams
>     <jtrentadams at gmail.com <mailto:jtrentadams at gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:jtrentadams at gmail.com <mailto:jtrentadams at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     All -
>      >
>      >     Would it be reasonable to request that each member of the LC
>     be given
>      >     author access to the Kantara Blog?  By virtue of each LC
>     member being
>      >     the leader of a WG or DG, this appears to be a reasonable way for
>      >     projects to get their message out in addition to the
>     community and
>      >     announce lists.
>      >
>      >     Thoughts?
>      >
>      >     - Trent
>      >
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