[Dialogue] OECommunity "project management" website

[David Walters]

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From: "David Dunn" <david at mirrorcommunication.com>
To: "OE Community" <OE at wedgeblade.net>; "'Dialogue' Listserv" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: [Dialogue] OECommunity "project management" website


> Hello Colleagues,
>
> CONTEXT & QUESTION
> We have some housekeeping and a decision to make: Do we maintain and pay 
> for
> the online resource that was created before the Springboard Gathering in
> Denver in late March at <oecommunity.grouphub.com>?
>
> BACKGROUND
> We've been building the 'Repository' for some time now at 
> <wedgeblade.net>.
> Since the Springboard Gathering a couple of months ago, the Repository has
> moved in the direction of a 'portal'--a quick access point to a number of
> online resources, including other sites and our listservs.
>
> We've been experimenting with the 'OE Community' website as a way to share
> documents related to the Springboard Gathering. This site is organized by
> 'projects' and now contains projects related to the July Springboard 
> follow
> up gathering at the Pattersons' 'Abbey North' north of Toronto and to
> preparation for the 2008 ICA International gathering in Japan. Anyone can
> log in and participate.
>
> THE DATA
> The "OE Community" project management web site costs $24/month to
> accommodate 15 projects. There is also a $12/month version that can
> accommodate 3 projects and a free version that will accommodate 1 project.
> We need to decide whether this particular resource is the right 'tool' 
> that
> is really useful, how useful and how much its users are willing to pay for
> it.
>
> The Respository website costs only time, not any appreciable amount of 
> money
> to maintain.
>
> COST/BENEFIT CONSIDERATIONS
> It's probably realistic to say that this sort of site is only useful if 
> one
> or more groups of people are actually actively using it to manage,
> coordinate and communicate about an active project. It's definitely not 
> cost
> effective as an information repository site. We already have the 
> Repository.
>
> The question within the question becomes: Does anyone what to use the "OE
> Community" (project management) site?
>
> OPTIONS
> 1. We could transfer Springboard Gathering documents over to the 
> Repository
> site for long term 'archiving' and discontinue the "OE Community" site.
>
> 2. We could transfer the Springboard documents to the Repository,
> discontinue the 'OE Community' site and work to add 'project management'
> capability to the Repository at no cost.
>
> 3. We could transfer Springboard documents to the Repository and see if
> anyone wants to use the "OE Community" site--and whether the lower monthly
> fee for 3 projects--or even the one project 'free site' is adequate for 
> our
> projected use.
>
> MY RECOMMENDATION
> Unless there are specific groups with interest in the "OE Community" site, 
> I
> think that it is more futuric and more realistic to spend time and energy
> building and adding collaboration capability to the Repository site. I'd
> like to shift from paying for and maintaining the site, to training and
> coaching others to maintain it who want to use it. My primary interest is
> moving in the direction of the care and feeding of the wedgeblade.net 
> portal
> site.
>
> ANSWERING THE REAL QUESTION
> The deciding factor will be whether one or more groups of people would 
> find
> it worthwhile to use and maintain the 'OE Community' website, including
> carrying the monthly fee.
>
> I'd like to hear from whoever wants to weigh in. Thanks for any and all
> feedback.
>
> David
>
> PS. The <oecommunity.grouphub.com> website guest login is:
> username: oe
> password: community
>
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