We had our first private chat last night...great fun to be commenting in a live forum with everyone!
Here are the results of our discussion:
1. Blog Name: Voting on poll on home page until MN tonight; we took suggestions up until the live chat last night for a name (couldn't set poll voting to top 3 everyone like we originally decided so I did next best thing.)
Purpose: Divergent and slight irreverent crew discussing the artistry of David honestly and respectfully.
Target Audience: nDers - anyone who has the same purpose stated above.
2. Rules of Conduct: We will use Rascal's rules which Marlie7 will post; David's private life is off limits for discussion unless he discusses something publicly; we can critique the idea but never the person.
Blogging Contributors: Have set up many nD regulars as authors. If you are nD regular, you can get permission to contribute or send contribution to Post Committee (davidfanLIZ, TOfan, Freo, Peru, Angelica, happy) who will get your post into posting schedule; posting schedule will be set by Post Committee; 2x per week was thought to be a general standard; links and discussion of daily events will occur in the comments of the post as was done in nD.
Commenters: Just need to sign in to comment; comments will be reviewed by Moderators periodically (need to set up Moderator Team) and those that are spamming,are flagrantly disrespectful of our purpose, or intentionally violate the Rules of Conduct will be deleted.
3. Public vs. Private: The blog will be public.
4. Blog Platform: Not discussed, however, it may be switched to another platform pending review of features of this Google platform.
5. Features: Will post 2x per week, in general. Discussions, daily events and links will be posted in Comments as was done in nD. Will set up a blog email account today and post on home page. Email will require reviewers and need to discuss who to review and if you are interested in participating in this functionality.
6. Minimum/Maximum number of Posts per what time period: Already addressed above.
7. Blogger's Rights: Regular nDers can seek blogger's rights; or anyone can send posts to Post Committee for publishing.
8. Blog Maintenance Team: TOfan, Marlie7, Dawn65, brooklyndawn, and refnaf are going to serve as the Blog Maintenance team and will work with formatting and gadgets as needed.
9. Moderators: As above. Please discuss the moderator role in comments and indicate in comments if you are interested.
10. How to handle disputes: We had a variety of recommendations that were quite colorful and imaginative....haha. The moderators (yet to be formed) will handle disputes according to our purpose. This will be an evolving functionality--a work in progress.
Other: We decided to have a private chat 2 times a month and some chats at times for our fans in differing time zones. So next one will be around the beginning of March. We will search for a more user friendly live chat application (any suggestions?).
Final Thoughts:
Please, please, please comment on this organizational discussion and this initial setting of ground rules. This is YOUR blog and a consensus driven initiative. For those of you who were on the chat, let me know (I know you will) if I missed something or misstated something.
We will continue discussions of organization and rules via comments and periodic posts until we have settled the known and we can deal with unanticipated events as they crop up through our discussions and dialogue.
NOTE: I'll take the comments and discussions from this post and summarize in a later post as we evolve the blog together. We can always vote if we have divergent opinions for a majority consensus.
MAD PROPS to Marlie7 and TOfan--they have done the majority of the work (on a moments notice) to get this blog working...*wild applause and cheering*
That's it for now......from your Blog Initiation Wench...
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Standing ovations for Marlie and TOfan !!!
ReplyDeleteEternal thanks to you Kizzi !!!
Let's get this party started.
Kizzi - I think you captured all the points on the chat last night. I will volunteer to be a mod since I'm on maintenance.
ReplyDeleteAfter the meeting was over, all the late nighters hung back and had a very fine conversation!
ReplyDeleteKudos to Kizzi and marlie7 (I did so little, it's embarrassing)!!!
ReplyDeleteI really hate this comment format. It seems made for short little spits of sentences. I will look at the different layouts today and see if something else looks pretty, but has a better comment style. If not, I suggest we look for another host, like Wordpress.
ReplyDeleteNot having been a part of the chat last night, all I can say is that what you've got going here looks good. I just wish there was a way to number the comments. It sure makes responding to specific comments a lot easier.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you for your willingness to pick this up!! :):)
Marlie7, Kizzi and Tofan,
ReplyDeleteHow the heck did you guys do this so fast? I'm in awe. Thank you so much for constructing a home for us so soon. It was cold outside for just a little while, but thanks to you, I'm feeling the warmth from this lovely community of kindred spirits once more. We shall not be moved. Well, we shall be moved, but we shall not be silenced.
Hey guys!
ReplyDeleteYou don't know me & I don't know any of you, hahah, but I always lurked over on notingDavid. I was stunned that he closed the site & found this site by way of reading the comments. I think you're all doing a wonderful job with this so far, given the fact the closure was somewhat abrupt.
I just wanted to drop a note to say that I'm willing to help with your site, especially if you decide to move over to WordPress. I'm really familiar with the setup there (I run a site & do a little posting on another) & I can help you guys learn the format there if you like. :)
A little bit of info: My name's Meagan; I go by StarFireSong on a few other sites, so you can call me either that, or shorten my name to SFS, Meg, Meggie...hahah! It doesn't really matter. My bio on http://www.archiesangels.com explains a little more. Just click on the "About Us" tab across the top.
Again, you're all doing a marvelous job while you're hashing all this out. & if you ever decide that you want help, please feel free to contact me at starfiresong (at) gmail (dot) com.
Meagan/StarFireSong
Cool, Meagan, StarFireSong. That's really nice of you and I may take you up on some Wordpress questions. Let us get our bearings a bit and we'll see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteTawna: We are looking at some other options. I'm not all that happy with the format here and I suspect others aren't as well. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteSome thoughts:
ReplyDelete1. I too would prefer a numbered comment format.
2. Does anyone know how to embed audio in a blog? I tried to figure this out last night, and then finally gave up and just posted the link to ND.
3. Kizzi, would it make sense to send a group email to those who volunteered to be in the Post Committee so that we could start the conversation? The next blogger needs to be preparing.
One more:
ReplyDelete4. It is natural for the current blogger to have an interest in the comments and to check back frequently. Maybe the blogger could also act as moderator for the few days that his/her blog is up.
Davidfanliz: re poster being mod - great idea!
ReplyDeleteI think it's a great idea for the current blogger to be moderator. I used to love how rascal would step in and respond to comments within the post thread.
ReplyDelete"T" is Freo. I will make sure that I am logged into the correct gmail account from now on!
ReplyDeleteHey Freo, aka T, we are getting to know who you are with either name LOL!
ReplyDeleteMeagan here again. Apparently, Blogspot doesn't like the OpenID I was using earlier today.
ReplyDeleteLiz, to embed audio or video, you need the HTML code. Without that, you're nowhere. If you do have the code, flip into the "HTML" tab while you're posting & paste it there. The funny thing with Blogspot is that it doesn't do anything except make a new line (like when you hit "Enter") when you go back to the "Visual" tab to continue. You really have to watch out for that.
To find a good site to host your audio, you can just do a search on "free MP3 hosting" to find a program you're comfortable with.
& when you mentioned links: instead of having the link dangle freely at the end of a post, you can highlight a bit of text, click the icon that's got a chainlink & a globe on it, type your link there & click "OK". The text you highlighted will turn blue & become underlined.
I hope all this helps you & doesn't confuse you all more.
Marlie7: I welcome any questions you might have with WP. Ask anything; no question is "stupid". :)
Meagan/StarFireSong
Hi Dawn65 and brooklyndawn: Please email Kizzi at kizzix2008@gmail.com (re Post Committee update).
ReplyDeleteSFS - thanks so much for that info!!! Really helpful!
ReplyDeleteokey dokey TOfan
ReplyDeleteplease go to VH1 and wildcard David .... here's the link
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/vote.jhtml
ALTNOY needs some nudging
What's up with VH1 anyway? We've been wildcarding David for almost 2 months!
ReplyDeleteWow - 108 people have logged in and voted on the name so far. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteGood evening to everyone ( sorry it is just only 7:55 pm here in Sydney) but for you guys it is good morning to everyone
ReplyDeleteSorry missed the voting. If I have the chance I would have voted "JustDavid", simple as that.
By the way, lots of luv for DA, just watched again youtube of Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8VYQtauy20
Just one day on YOUTUBE, it has 14,355 hits and still counting. It also have 222 comments, and so far no HATERS yet....
I have my mp4 and mp3 of this but I keep coming back to this youtube so I can read all the wonderful things that people say about our angel.
This video is the best video to introduce David to new fans.
DavidfanLIZ,
ReplyDeletere embedding audio, hope this helps:
http://flarium.com/embed-audio-into-myspace-blog
Thanks jr4DA!
ReplyDeleteThere is a great review for David's album from the UK, she really gets him.
ReplyDeleteI continue to vote on VH1 with hopes that soon they'll add him.
Is anyone here from the LA county area? My daughter and granddaughter are going with me to the Pomona concert... My granddaughter use to be a huge Hannah/Miley fan until recently, though she does think David will have good exposure because she is so popular.
I haven't heard any of the radio stations play Altnoy. They did play Crush for awhile.
I meant "That is..."
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