Comments on: OCWC Global Aggregation Site (Very Cool!) http://ocwblog.org/2009/04/20/ocwc-global-aggregation-site-very-cool/ Blogging the OpenCourseWare (and OER) Movements Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:32:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: OCWC Global Aggregation « Open Education News http://ocwblog.org/2009/04/20/ocwc-global-aggregation-site-very-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-1970 OCWC Global Aggregation « Open Education News Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:05:29 +0000 http://ocwblog.org/?p=206#comment-1970 [...] 22, 2009 · No Comments Mike Caulfield at OCW Blog has posted on some new developments in conference management. Rather than select something like [...] [...] 22, 2009 · No Comments Mike Caulfield at OCW Blog has posted on some new developments in conference management. Rather than select something like [...]

]]> By: Mike Caulfield http://ocwblog.org/2009/04/20/ocwc-global-aggregation-site-very-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-1963 Mike Caulfield Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:35:25 +0000 http://ocwblog.org/?p=206#comment-1963 Tony -- thanks for your response -- I may be a bit harsh on Crowdvine. Out of all the tech available, we did use Crowdvine for our Logan UT conference, b/c it is more open than other solutions. Offline I can talk to you about my personal thoughts of why people may have felt a little imposed on by the Crowdvine site in ways we are hoping to avoid here. If you shoot me an email (after the conference, we're likely to be bust until Friday) at mike at ocwconsortium.org I'm happy to pass on what feedback I have. Tony — thanks for your response –

I may be a bit harsh on Crowdvine. Out of all the tech available, we did use Crowdvine for our Logan UT conference, b/c it is more open than other solutions.

Offline I can talk to you about my personal thoughts of why people may have felt a little imposed on by the Crowdvine site in ways we are hoping to avoid here.

If you shoot me an email (after the conference, we’re likely to be bust until Friday) at mike at ocwconsortium.org I’m happy to pass on what feedback I have.

]]> By: Tony Stubblebine http://ocwblog.org/2009/04/20/ocwc-global-aggregation-site-very-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 Tony Stubblebine Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:03:56 +0000 http://ocwblog.org/?p=206#comment-1962 Cool feature, definitely blog about the results and how it worked with your attendees. Sorry to hear that you found CrowdVine to be a walled garden. I've never heard that before, and it's counter to our goals. We want to create temporary hubs to help attendees have a better conference experience. We try to make it easy to get in through OpenID or aggregation of an existing identity, and easy to get out by letting you export your new contacts to your address book, social network, and feed reader. I've found that if you don't provide a hub, you end up segmenting the conversation into discrete communities, some of which are walled gardens (Facebook and LinkedIn in particular). Cool feature, definitely blog about the results and how it worked with your attendees.

Sorry to hear that you found CrowdVine to be a walled garden. I’ve never heard that before, and it’s counter to our goals. We want to create temporary hubs to help attendees have a better conference experience. We try to make it easy to get in through OpenID or aggregation of an existing identity, and easy to get out by letting you export your new contacts to your address book, social network, and feed reader.

I’ve found that if you don’t provide a hub, you end up segmenting the conversation into discrete communities, some of which are walled gardens (Facebook and LinkedIn in particular).

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