Kris,
Gary and I skyped today re psa.org various issues for quite a while.
He’s missing row two also, and making him an admin didn’t help either. However Gary found some keyboard shortcuts that worked for him. The very last TinyMCE button with the question mark brings up help…and in that help there’s a windowpane for “Shortcuts”.
Turns out there’s a keyboard shortcut for bringing up the “Link Chain” popup window. It’s : Alt/ Shift/ a
Try it and see if that works for you. Type in your link first. I’m sending a tech support question to the plugin author today.
Also Gary says we need to have a group presence at Linked In. I thought it would be great if you “headed that up” for us, and I can help you if you want. I think you already created a group, maybe we need to add something to it?? Do you have a link to share access to that group, if it exists?
Didn’t get to the Keynote file support today, but am going to work on plugins for slide shows a bit.
Gary is taking the Learning Creative Learning course, which I haven’t gone to as yet. He says they are using Huddle to share realtime video conferencing (Skype ish)…which is a google thing, he says, and free.
I have PSA set up groups on Facebook and Google. I would be happy to set up a group on Linked In. I agree with Gary, that a presence “where people already go” is important and makes it easy for them.
I have noticed that groups need a focus. The Udacity, Lean Launch Pad, Linked In group seems more interested in connecting people…not sure what they do with their connections. I thought it was for people interested in non-profits. I get slapped on the hand for not posting links on the discussion for the course…somebody named Mitch. Who is he?
So what is our purpose in starting a Linked In group?
Regarding the MIT Creative Learning Course, I signed up twice successfully for the course but did not receive any more notifications. Something to think about when we set up a course. IMO, they were not impressed with my expectations, and cut me off.
Hey Kris,
You ask good questions about Linked IN purpose for PSA. For the short term, we might keep that in mind as a to do, once we answer your questions, and are more or less “ready to declare our PSA website up and running and live”. One among many questions that will come up at that time about how we want to PR our site and why.
I’m pretty sure your credentials weren’t involved in not getting the Media Lab course going for you… =^) maybe they cut off by a date, or maybe a tech problem. I thought I did see somewhere that they are going to start another go round of the course at a later date.
we can talk more about Linked in on Thursday if we want. Tonight I’m thinking there’s other more pressing matters for our attention…so I’m kind of backing off the request that you take that on…until a later time when we’re more ready for it.
I just shared a few of our newest links on Google+ since we already have a group set up there. How can we maximize the links we post on our website to other social media sites? Something to play around with….
Yep – to get and maintain a following, they need a focus and, more importantly, they need a few active participants. Like so much in social dynamics, a small core drives most activity and without their involvement the group will assuredly atrophy.
For now, we have our own website to focus on…. and if we are posting links to our PSA website someplace right now, we SHOULDN’T BE, AND NEED TO REMOVE ANYTHING THAT LINKS BACK TO PSA.ORG.
Our site isn’t ready to be linked to for a while yet. If just posting elsewhere a link to another site, that won’t be a security breach or other premature connection to PSA.org problem, but also kind of no point at the moment to do that.
I shouldn’t have jumped on Gary’s thought of Linked In groups etc right away…I should have put that in the to do folder for another day…another month… because that time will come, but it isn’t in February 2013.
My fault for putting it out there, but please help me put it back in the bag for now. Thx!
=^)
Kris, I had, or thought I had, a similar problem with the MIT course. In fact I e-mailed them that I had received to confirmation to several attempts at registration. Turns out my confirmation was in a junk mail folder.
In any event, as you say, execution is key and this group at MIT is clearly on a learning curve. The web site is really poorly organized and I have struggled even to find where the course videos will appear.
There was an interesting recent “case study” on the point you make – it seems that a Cousera course was so poorly thought (logistics primarily) out and presented that it had to be aborted! I’ll post an article if I can find it.
The initial session was very poorly introduced for the on-line participants and the actual course presentation was/is simply a capture of the life classroom lecture. That said, there are very interesting and smart people involved and I think they are truly seeking to experiment.
The use of a Google+ community and Huddle for small group collaboration may or may not work – I am interested in finding out.
I expect the content would have been of more import to you folks than me, so we will see how far I get.
Thanks Gary. Just tried the short-cut and the pop up window allows me to select “open in a new window”. Being me….I would prefer a more intuitive approach like the icon on the screen. I also found the Help short cuts but wanted more… Why not??