Checking In
When you find this post, if you are an active participant in Think New Orleans, please leave a message in the comments.
Becky, Sarah and Karen, you should have found this first. It’s probably Becky who has found it first, so Becky, please send an email message to Sarah and Karen, separately. Link to the sideline tag page.
Hello, Ryan. I’m going to push more of our conversations into the open, so you can participate.
Ernie and Brian, I hope to run into you later today to talk about the Internet Help Desk, so please leave a comment somewhere to set a time.
I’m sure some of the New Orleans bloggers have found this post as well. I’m going to use these posts that are not on the front page to talk about business and planning. It’s a public forum, but it doesn’t clutter.
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I’m sorry I haven’t been more active with Think New Orleans. I’ve been trying to find the time, but I haven’t succeeded. I believe in the mission, but I’ve simply been overextended what with home renovation and neighobrhood stuff and my job. And school hasn’t even been in session for the last three weeks! I will be even busier in a few days, so I am not sure what I will be able to do. I am trying to think in terms of synergy between my job and Think New Orleans. Insofar as I can find ways to combine what I’m doing at work with the mission of Think New Orleans, perhaps I will be more successful.
Thanks again to all the volunteers for their efforts.
Bart
Thanks for showing up in the comments. I’m going to blog about you, then Michael, then Boozeacracy, in an attempt to bring you more attention.
If we’ve not collaborated, it’s probably because it’s been difficult to get the collaboration out into the open. The ideal of Think New Orleans is that people can contribute small amounts of time, because the outcomes are clearly defined.
Again, thanks for checking in here. People are already making connections that were not there yesterday evening.
I’m also still very interested in the ThinkNOLA wiki but I have had much time to contribute lately since I’ve been focusing most of my free time on developing my new blog and my business as well as my other community project, CreativeNOLA.org.
I think it’s really just a matter of getting the word out about the wiki and making it really clear and easy to understand that it’s just that…very easy to use and contribute to. I can understand how people who aren’t internet whizkids might be daunted at first by the thought of contributing, but with a little time, I think it’s really something that just about anyone should be able to use.
I’m here (sort of). Sorry I’ve been MIA; I wish I had some really good diary of an excuse, but I’ve just been busy with stupid crap.
If you have some offline tasks for the weekend, let me know.. I’m going to be off the grid until Monday.
I’m here. Hopefully the insanity around our house and lives will calm down, and be able to help more.
Uproar
It is great to have you back. We need to build the community around the Wiki, which means, show up, leave your regards, take a task when one presents itself.
Ryan
We are starting up with the second half of the UNOP. It should produce a lot of new research and feedback. Don’t worry about being out of pocket for a few days. Please stick around. You’ve done so much to help the Wiki take shape.
Morwen
Hope you can find a way to help. I’ll start pulling in information from the GCIA.
We are building a community. If you have information regarding the rebuild, drop it into an open thread in the Think New Orleans weblog so we can discuss it.
I feel that Think New Orleans will focus on education and recovery planning for the near future. We are going to begin to do digital divide work, in that we are going to pilot our Internet help desk concept.
Well, I’m not the first one here after all. That’s good to see, actually. Ryan, Uproar, et al – I’ve been updating the Wiki editors page with some fairly basic markup instructions for new/casual users. I’ve been prompted in large part by the fact that we’re about to have a couple classes of UNO students adding articles (thanks Sarah and Kim!).
I’m trying to think about the markup I’ve found myself looking up and using most often, and also reducing some of the more complex and varied instructions to one or two good “default” options for beginners – e.g., there are many ways to display an image detailed at wikipedia and mediawiki, but the thumbnail size with a caption is probably all that most people really want or need to deal with. Any additions/corrections/suggestions are very welcome.
Ok Ok I am last, and mildly confused.
The Wiki Editors page helps. I’m feeling strongly that the way to get this going is to start with surveys to create a framework for certian sections of the web site.
The next action there is to create a starter survey for nonprofit organizations and neighborhood organizations. This would help the UNO projects greatly.