Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Marquis de Schwarznegger
Author: jurgen schaub Posted: 1/21/1999; 12:07:49 PM Topic: Marquis de Schwarznegger Msg #: 2362 (In response to 2358) Prev/Next: 2361 / 2363
imho, what's needed (and what's more important than the speed of the wires or the niftiness of the particular software) is some kind of leader. call the leader what you will, "visionary", "evangelist", "nuts", whatever... the important thing is that the leader gets the people excited enough about the possibilities inherit in communicating with each other in new and different ways that they go out on their own and implement something using whatever's available.personally, i don't care what the back end is. frontier's okay, but the "community publishing" aspects of it need lots more work; webx and caucus are fine, but they're more discussion-oriented; webobjects would be cool, but there's lots more work involved there. whatever. it doesn't matter. what matters are the people. if the people aren't into it, it will fail, no matter how good the software is. the job of the leader is to give people a reason to get online and get talking with each other.
an interesting side-question to this, i think, is "how will a real-life community react to a virtual community"?
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- Re: Marquis de Schwarznegger, Dave Winer, 1/21/1999; 1:06:18 PM
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