Daniel Johnson, Jr.

This is a message for members of and those interested in the New Media Cincinnati group.

NEW MEDIA CINCINNATI COMMUNITY WIKI

More folks are joining and contributing to the wiki every week. This is a great place to collaborate and share ideas. It’s especially good for folks who, for whatever reason are not connected to the group on Facebook, Twitter, or some other way.

For those who like RSS, there is a What’s New feed available to track changes to the wiki:

• http://newmediacincinnati.wetpaint.com/whatsnew/rss

This will probably become the primary vehicle for organizing and collaboration. Already folks are suggesting topics and locations for future meetups. Speaking of which…

SEPTEMBER 2008 MEETUP – HOT WINGS AND NEW MEDIA!!

The next New Media Cincinnati meetup will be on Saturday, September 20, 2008, from 2 to 4 PM at the Buffalo Wild Wings at Rookwood Pavilion in Norwood.

• Our Next Meetup

The topic for discussion (which will last no longer than 20 minutes, I promise!) is a New Media Cincinnati (Un) Conference/Community Project. To help move this along, there are some discussion threads at the wiki. Please contribute your ideas on the wiki to help facilitate our discussion at the meetup.

• New Media Cincinnati Unconference
• New Media Cincinnati Community Project

Please RSVP via EventBrite: http://nmc200809.eventbrite.com/

ONE MORE THING…

It’s hard to believe that this group is almost a year old! We had the first meetup in October 2007 at the Golden Corral in Middletown, Ohio. Since that time I’ve been able to make many new friends who are passionate about new and social media in our community. Thank you so much for making this group into something I enjoy being a part of!

I’ve been thinking about wikis lately, and these two videos have strengthened my interest in them:

Wikis in Plain English

WetPaint in Plain English

I’ve been thinking about the New Media Cincinnati community a lot lately, especially with respect to some things related to planning meetups. I’ve been getting a lot of suggestions via email (danieljohnsonjr at newmediacincinnati dot com), Twitter (@newmediacincy and @danieljohnsonjr), IM, Facebook discussion threads, etc. I keep wondering if using a wiki would be an easier and more efficient way.

So I asked the folks who follow me on Twitter, “Are you using wikis in your work/personal life? If so, how so?”

Here are some replies:

• claynewton @danieljohnsonjr I use wikis for work to manage deliverables and specs; in my personal life I use them to build knowledge w likeminded folks
• JeremyLuebke @danieljohnsonjr Recording of tech / design work fro websites
• davesnyder @danieljohnsonjr i use a wiki to store all of my optimization and social media strategies for my site. It is viewable by the company
• clq @danieljohnsonjr I have a personal wiki hosted on godaddy with notes, important usernames I hardly ever use, and anything else I think of.
• winemedineme @danieljohnsonjr my production department uses a wiki for templates.
• SuzyMiller @danieljohnsonjr Planning to use a wiki to develop sustainability policy for my small business…..
• writegirl @danieljohnsonjr I use wikis for both volunteer groups I’m involved in. It’s better than exchanging 1000 emails back and forth.
• annezieger @danieljohnsonjr my company uses a wiki to share information not only among coroprates, but subsidiaries too

via direct message to me:
mjenkins We use a Wiki for the online staff at the Enquirer for storing and updating our production processes and best practices. It’s helpful.

I asked if I could use her message in this post, and she replied:
mjenkins Sure, go right ahead. We are looking to expand the use of our Wiki across all departments (ads, HR, etc.) soon.

I also noticed some buzz on Twitter via Tweetscan related to wikis and shared that:
danieljohnsonjr Tweetscan twitter buzz about wikis: http://tinyurl.com/5koupw

After all these responses, I asked: “Related wiki question (thx for your help so far): which sites are you using to create/manage your wikis?” Here are a couple of the responses:

• clq @danieljohnsonjr Creating a wikimedia one on any server that supports databases is really easy. I use my own space on Godaddy, Works fine.
• sharemefg @danieljohnsonjr I have used tiddlyspot to manage my tiddlywiki hosting however since tiddlywiki has no server stuff could use googlepages

Do you think we should create a wiki for New Media Cincinnati?

newmediacincy How might @newmediacincy use wikis?

	danieljohnsonjr @newmediacincy Suggestions for meetup times/locations? about 1 hour ago from twhirl in reply to newmediacincy
	SteveGerl @newmediacincy: Contests where people have to post something, perhaps? about 1 hour ago from web in reply to newmediacincy

Should we put together a wiki for New Media Cincinnati? Feel free to continue the conversation in the comments below.

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