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May 29, 2006 · Print This Article

Angry Young Thing has posted a question that could use a page of its own.

  1. angry young thing Says:
    May 28th, 2006 at 10:57 pm Judas; Yes, but how can we make morepraxis more of a ‘community’?

I think that this is a good question for the morepraxis community to answer together.

Personally, it feels most like an active community to me in the weeks where other members posts and comments have to be scheduled so each post gets a days on the top of the page. Basically when I can see that people are reading and engaging with the content. It also helps that some of our members are part of communities I spend time with.

More of my thinking about our community is in the about morepraxis and join our community

Recently morepraxis had an upgrade and new features were added to make our site more functional and easy to navigate. These addtions hopefully help people connect better to what goes up and builds the sense of community too.

….So the space is open (as always) to suggest ways to build and develop morepraxis as a site, community, resource and a movement.

What will make morepraxis more of a community for you?

Age with motivation from Angry Young Thing :)

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  1. Age on May 29th, 2006 12:52 pm

    Some Helpful stats:
    We currently have 48 registered members.
    Visits a day = 100-138
    Hits a month = 13000-22000
    Countries = 48% Australia; 42% USA; The rest is made up from Network, UK, Belgium, Italy, Lebanon, Singapore, Pakistan, Germany and Non Profit Organisations

    Members (that I know) are normal people, Christians (mainly UCA), activists and humanitarian workers. I’m excited that some really good thinkers and doers in our mix.

  2. Kim on June 2nd, 2006 4:50 pm

    “long time reader, first time commenter”

    I think community can be created by shared experiences and having those experiences in common. Also being willing to explore what we do and don’t have in common is a good way to help create that feeling.

    So in terms of morepraxis, those stats are a great way to create community. It’d be great to be able to see that any time we log on.

    Also going to and talking about some of the events that are advertised on here is good.

    For example I went to the Deadly Legacy Exhibition Kerryn posted about. It was really thought provoking and I’d encourage people to go along another time. Have other people seen this exhibition? What did you think?

    There you go Age, as ‘ordered’ I’ve posted my two cents :)

    Kim with motivation from Age

  3. Age on June 4th, 2006 10:29 am

    Hi Kim
    Thanks for your cents.

    Redfish is working on a stats thingy for us. I think you should see a bar called short stats next to the dashboard in wordpress when you log on. Nothing there yet as we need 30 days on the new set up. So next week we could have something. I don’t know if it also appears on the main page or not… I guess redfish knows :)

    Posting comments about events is a good way to create community. I think sometimes people think they need really impressive thoughts to post as apposed to just thoughts and reflections.

    Ordered…. mmm the power of it all. First Kim on morepraxis and then WORLD DOMINATION :) (is there an evil genius smiley?)

  4. Kim on June 8th, 2006 9:38 am

    I just knew you’d be the type to aim for world domination :)

  5. angry young thing on June 9th, 2006 9:45 pm

    kims comment about community being about ’shared experiences and having those experiences in common’ resonates with me.

    I also appreciate Age’s speedy responses to most comments posted here.
    I’m not a blogger and find throwing thoughts out there a little scary. Having a regular involved and supportive mediator creates a sense of familiarity. Good on you age.

    As far as sharing information goes, morepraxis is on top, but posting a personal comment (like what was thought provoking about the Deadly Legacy Exhibition) under the post advertising the where and when of that event, can seem a little out of place (and off putting).

    Maybe it’s just me.

    I feel a bit silly reading a post, thinking ‘wow, that remindes me of…’ and then posting the poem i have written in response to that line of thinking. :-)

    (Age i think some ‘really impressive thoughts’ have set the scene for many of the branches and created mind blowing sparks but left less space to be silly / vulnerable / personal / experimental /reflective / un-pc, whatever)

    Maybe a ‘morepersonal’ touch is required. Would people feel comfortable sharing their daily anecdotes, run ins with God and coffee nights with the holy spirit in a space like that?

    I think I would.

    Or maybe we could just use this page…….:-)

    Angry Young Thing (in rehab!) Signing Out.

  6. Age on June 11th, 2006 11:06 am

    Thanks.
    Yeah part of the reason I post the bubbles and we even have the morefun category is to allow space for silly and entertaining stuff that doesn’t need people to feel/think impressive.

    I’d like to hear ponderings and normal reflections. I guess the space is here in moreexperiences and morethoughts and it’s not like we stop anyone. Saying that I haven’t put too many pondering post up myself. The confirmation post was close. I will have to see where my pondering goes next. MorePondering may be good sub heading for wondering and questioning - not that it is really a matter of headings but it may help????

    I would love to hear peoples thoughts on events and action that pop up here. If people feel commenting on the add is off putting they can post their own thought and link back to that add. I get a buzz when we get posts and emails on justice actions from people saying they did it.

    So ‘rehab’ is that where your nursing, participating or your own private thing?
    BTW India, Afghanistan or are your back in OZ?

  7. russell on June 19th, 2006 12:52 pm

    From experience with web communities: (not god-stuff though.. but it’s all relative)

    • The more users, the more chance of community - so…
    • Emails when someone replies to a post you’ve put a comment on - makes people come back 500% more.
    • Happy birthday emails - neat trick, but you’d be surprised how well it works - and should be automated (I’m pretty sure Wordpress can do that… did we put our birthday in when we registered?)
    • A seemingly-constant presence: Age is well on the way with quick replies to this, but the fact that someone gives a site 28-hour-a-day attention makes people stay because they can tell (don’t ask me how.. they just do)
    • Competitions - always good, give away some free stuff man!
    • Create something as a community, let’s make a photo-page or something, get submissions from people and ‘quilt’ them all together or something… give people something to own - then they’ll show people and wham, more users = more community.
    • Podcast - better yet, Vodcasting… I know you’re working on it Age, but a video podcast in Australia puts you in a small group of individuals, and do it consistantly and you’re made.
    • A quick way for people to just throw up a link to another site on morepraxis with only a name and not a 400 word explination - just a list down the side of the last 10 user-submitted links - not sure how to do this, but I’m sure ‘old RFBF can sort something out :)

    My brain’s mulling on a few others, more on that later… it may not ‘quite’ be the community ideas you’re after, but I promise if all that happened, your community would grow fast…

  8. Age on June 26th, 2006 11:18 am

    Thanks Rus, I will see what we can do.

    I like the competition idea - I do have T-Shirits that could be prizes.
    What sort of comp would be good?

    I really like the idea of creating something visual that grows with the community - we have photo gallery abilities but I like the collage/jigsaw of people, places and whatnot. (another one for ‘old RFBF’ - lucky he isn’t too ‘old’ for this stuff) :)

  9. russell on June 26th, 2006 11:41 am

    It depends how creative all your bods are feeling - image things are fun online whereby you create an image to start with, and then people can take that image and add to it, then take the image that was added to and add to it and so on and so on.. you end up with a big mish mash of the original image and a whole bunch of other people’s opinions on that image.

    Can we attach images to our comments here? I guess people will just have to upload their images elsewhere or email them to you…

    More ideas later…

  10. Age on June 28th, 2006 4:04 pm

    So pod is done and once I work out a Jedi Jesus or something in the right formate I’ll give it a go.

    I believe/understand that the ability to post images directly opens the site to program/virus hidden in the file (plus a couple of ethical hurdles). Emailing in the images and have them join a human jigsaw or something would be fun.

    Maybe our comp could be t-shirt ideas for transfers that we could download??
    Or messing with those jesus all about life adds till that say something worth hearing or just funny??
    http://morepraxis.org.au/?p=216

  11. Administrator on June 29th, 2006 2:12 pm

    You can link to images no probs. Its just a direct posting of images that concerns. A FlickR account would be cool… Like Cheryl…

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