Major undertakings arising from our CreativeCamp conversation "Beyond OpenCoffee"
1 year, 8 months ago.
5 comments so far
It was a great discussion Bernie and particularly interesting for me meet for the first time, and get the views from, those outside of LOCC. Unfortunately I don't think I explained well enough that the benefit of an aggregation page, ala Pageflakes, was having a single page to look at summarising all OpenCoffee activity. But I don't mind what methods we adopt - as Patrick emphasised the people are the important element.
I didn't make myself too clear either. It makes sense to me that the Cork OCC blog should be uprooted and moved to the opencoffee.ie domain, and that the rest of the open coffees should follow suit, with a front-page aggregator connecting all of them, with shared calendar services and whatever else. I was trying to stress the importance of the distinct local nodes remaining as the first point of call for Googlers and new referrals first arriving at cork.opencoffee.ie (if they land on the parent page there's are big massive square buttons saying "CORK", "GALWAY", "WATERFORD,"DUBLIN" at the top). For a few reasons - the very local aspect is one of the main selling points of the Open Coffee, and there's also the fact that each OCC node has evolved in its own direction and should be allowed to maintain a degree of individuality.
In short, a group blog along the lines of web2ireland would not be the way to go, while an aggregator of the other nodes' activity makes perfect sense (no harm moving them each to a subdomain of opencoffe.ie for a bit of consistency), as long as it is blindingly clear that this is just an aggregator. PageFlakes probably be fine. Shame there wasn't more time because there was room for a lot of general discussion about, e.g., how to improve and promote the OCC.
Sorry I missed you there James, I did not know you were in the building until the very end, and by then I was standing behind a big screen.
Sorry I missed you too James - you've made some great points above. I really enjoyed that the session turned into a round-table discussion rather than a panel thing and agree that it could have gone on for much longer if we'd had time and/or @topgold had more than one page available in his moleskine ;-p
Noooo, not at all James,.... I was,... er, volunteered by someone who shall remain nameless so I was very happy to be part of the roundtable discussion. Honestly, that's how an unconference is supposed to work anyway. I think that's what Joe Drumgoole was hinting at over on Twitter. Not that I didn't enjoy the other presentations very much also, I did.
5 comments so far
It was a great discussion Bernie and particularly interesting for me meet for the first time, and get the views from, those outside of LOCC. Unfortunately I don't think I explained well enough that the benefit of an aggregation page, ala Pageflakes, was having a single page to look at summarising all OpenCoffee activity. But I don't mind what methods we adopt - as Patrick emphasised the people are the important element.
1 year, 8 months ago by EirePreneur
I didn't make myself too clear either. It makes sense to me that the Cork OCC blog should be uprooted and moved to the opencoffee.ie domain, and that the rest of the open coffees should follow suit, with a front-page aggregator connecting all of them, with shared calendar services and whatever else. I was trying to stress the importance of the distinct local nodes remaining as the first point of call for Googlers and new referrals first arriving at cork.opencoffee.ie (if they land on the parent page there's are big massive square buttons saying "CORK", "GALWAY", "WATERFORD,"DUBLIN" at the top). For a few reasons - the very local aspect is one of the main selling points of the Open Coffee, and there's also the fact that each OCC node has evolved in its own direction and should be allowed to maintain a degree of individuality.
In short, a group blog along the lines of web2ireland would not be the way to go, while an aggregator of the other nodes' activity makes perfect sense (no harm moving them each to a subdomain of opencoffe.ie for a bit of consistency), as long as it is blindingly clear that this is just an aggregator. PageFlakes probably be fine. Shame there wasn't more time because there was room for a lot of general discussion about, e.g., how to improve and promote the OCC.
Sorry I missed you there James, I did not know you were in the building until the very end, and by then I was standing behind a big screen.
1 year, 8 months ago by jgalvin
Sorry I missed you too James - you've made some great points above. I really enjoyed that the session turned into a round-table discussion rather than a panel thing and agree that it could have gone on for much longer if we'd had time and/or @topgold had more than one page available in his moleskine ;-p
1 year, 8 months ago by EirePreneur
Doh, didn't realise it was intended as a panel thing - sorry to cut into your airtime James and Ina.
1 year, 8 months ago by jgalvin
Noooo, not at all James,.... I was,... er, volunteered by someone who shall remain nameless so I was very happy to be part of the roundtable discussion. Honestly, that's how an unconference is supposed to work anyway. I think that's what Joe Drumgoole was hinting at over on Twitter. Not that I didn't enjoy the other presentations very much also, I did.
1 year, 8 months ago by EirePreneur