I liked that you started by generating profiles from the EA survey. When I got the email about it, it made me feel like I’d been invited to join the site.
Is there any kind of discussion area on the website? I looked for one and couldn’t find it. (I know there are EA forums for this; I was just being a confused user because “community site” implied blog or forum, to me.)
Thanks! We link to the EA forum and Facebook group for discussion as it makes sense to concentrate discussion in a few venues rather than creating a new place for it, for its own sake. The EA forum’s been quite active so far, and the Facebook group recently passed 4,000 members, and seems to have had several threads a day for over a year. (It’s the most successful analogous Facebook group I know of—does anyone know of others, and what features they have?)
The only obvious connection that I can see between a profiles base (of the sort initially outlined in this .impact needs analysis) - and the various other applications of personal data, like the donation registry and map—and a forum is providing more information about the people who post on the latter. But this can be achieved by providing links next to people’s names on both sites, and I’ve already set this up on the EA Profiles and Ryan Carey will do it on the forum.
Does that sound sensible? Can anyone else think of other helpful integrations or synergies?
As Niel Bowerman commented there, profiles bases sometime do evolve into monoliths. The ever-growing list of things you can do on Facebook is an example, although that’s partly because Facebook is a platform for independent applications; in the same way, people can build independent applications either on top of the Profiles or leveraging them somewhere else, through .impact.
I liked that you started by generating profiles from the EA survey. When I got the email about it, it made me feel like I’d been invited to join the site.
Is there any kind of discussion area on the website? I looked for one and couldn’t find it. (I know there are EA forums for this; I was just being a confused user because “community site” implied blog or forum, to me.)
Thanks! We link to the EA forum and Facebook group for discussion as it makes sense to concentrate discussion in a few venues rather than creating a new place for it, for its own sake. The EA forum’s been quite active so far, and the Facebook group recently passed 4,000 members, and seems to have had several threads a day for over a year. (It’s the most successful analogous Facebook group I know of—does anyone know of others, and what features they have?)
The only obvious connection that I can see between a profiles base (of the sort initially outlined in this .impact needs analysis) - and the various other applications of personal data, like the donation registry and map—and a forum is providing more information about the people who post on the latter. But this can be achieved by providing links next to people’s names on both sites, and I’ve already set this up on the EA Profiles and Ryan Carey will do it on the forum.
Does that sound sensible? Can anyone else think of other helpful integrations or synergies?
People may also be interested in Ozzie Gooen’s discussion document on the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolith Application. I’m conscious of the disadvantages, and am a believer in decentralisation.
As Niel Bowerman commented there, profiles bases sometime do evolve into monoliths. The ever-growing list of things you can do on Facebook is an example, although that’s partly because Facebook is a platform for independent applications; in the same way, people can build independent applications either on top of the Profiles or leveraging them somewhere else, through .impact.