{"id":1143,"date":"2008-02-09T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/itforum-alternatives-to-the-walled-garden-listserv\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:36","slug":"itforum-alternatives-to-the-walled-garden-listserv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/itforum-alternatives-to-the-walled-garden-listserv\/","title":{"rendered":"ITForum: Alternatives to the Walled Garden listserv?"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Siemens facilitated a nice review of his paper – Teaching and Learning in Knowledge Networks<\/a> – in the ITForum<\/a>
\nthis week. The "conversation" was good and nicely moderated.
\nUnfortunately, I can’t link to any of the conversations as they are
\nheld on an e-mail listserv and the conversation history can’t be viewed
\nby those not going through the (free) registration process on the
\nlistserv. Also, it is quite a pain to follow a forked e-mail discussion
\n(various replies to replies). As a newbie to the ITForum, I suppose I
\nshouldn’t criticize as I start, but it sure seems the days of using a
\nlistserv to facilitate global discussions are past. The ITForum
\nlistserv has over 2,200 subscribers and there were some great thoughts
\nand links that I would love to collect and share here, but it isn’t
\npossible to "link" to an e-mail. Further, the discussion policies state
\nthat:
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\n "All discussion statements are
\nconsidered the property of the member and may not be posted on the web
\nelsewhere without their permission." <\/p>\n

Here are a few links I pulled out, but they are so removed from the context of the discussion … (sigh)<\/p>\n

Social Network Theory – http:\/\/www.istheory.yorku.ca\/socialnetworktheory.htm<\/a>
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Federated Social Networks (FSN) – http:\/\/www.mediamatic.net\/set-26902-en.html<\/a>
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Social Graph: Concepts and Issues – http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/social_graph_concepts_and_issues.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: ITForum<\/a>
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