Participation Coach Role
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- Latest post made by John S Veitch at 2010 Jul 29 00:10 UTC
For as long as I can remember, GroupServer has supported a role called Participation Coach in a group. This is primarily a social role, and has been technically almost identical to a regular group member. This role has many names, but I think of it as a "go to" person for the group. What I can't remember is any particular reason for the role to exist. In almost all cases, a group has only one group admin, who is by default, the "go to" person for that group. In groups with multiple admins, they could all perform the function of the "go to" person. We have a proposal to remove this role. https://projects.iopen.net/groupserver/ticket/411 Currently, the group properties include the "owner" of the group. I think this remains an important thing to declare, as it tells the group members and others (in public and priovate groups) who has convened the group, and therefore has a key interest in its functioning, and the power to decommission it. What do you think of this?
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As you know we use the title "Forum Manager" which we adapted from the old term "List Owner/Moderator" prior to GS. Participation Coach is too soft a term IMHO. In our use, there is no FM who is not also a Group Admin, but our technical support lead and myself are normally also admins. The FM is also the one who receives the join/leave notices. We certainly find value in being able to define and publish the name of the "go to" group leader to members. It would be nice in the admin for all admins to have access to a join/leave log however. Steven Clift - <email obscured> http://stevenclift.com http://e-democracy.org Sent via mobile - +1 612 203 5181 http://twitter.com/democracy On Jul 27, 2010 11:57 PM, "Dan Randow" <email obscured>> wrote: For as long as I can remember, GroupServer has supported a role called Participation Coach in a group. This is primarily a social role, and has been technically almost identical to a regular group member. This role has many names, but I think of it as a "go to" person for the group. What I can't remember is any particular reason for the role to exist. In almost all cases, a group has only one group admin, who is by default, the "go to" person for that group. In groups with multiple admins, they could all perform the function of the "go to" person. We have a proposal to remove this role. https://projects.iopen.net/groupserver/ticket/411 Currently, the group properties include the "owner" of the group. I think this remains an important thing to declare, as it tells the group members and others (in public and priovate groups) who has convened the group, and therefore has a key interest in its functioning, and the power to decommission it. What do you think of this?
Dan -- Dan Randow Chief Wrangler OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow skype: vonrandow ----------------------------------------- Full text of this topic in GroupServer Development: http://groupserver.org/r/topic/69brV3Xfl7scqr6NYhEJ1k To leave GroupServer Development, email <email obscured>?Subject=unsubscribe Start your own free groups and site with OnlineGroups.Net http://onlinegroups.net Host your own online groups site with GroupServer http://groupserver.org
There are many hard and soft roles (to use Steve's term) in a group. I went
through the roles that have code *defined* to support them, and I came up with
the following list of hard roles¹
* Site administrators,
* Group administrators²,
* Moderators,
* Moderated members,
* Blocked members,
* Posting members in announcement groups,
* Invited members, and
* Normal members.
However, I can see a use for soft roles, such as a participation coach. A
person may be a local expert on a topic, or have a senior role in an
organisation. An owner is another social role, but an odd one because the owner
may not even be a member of the group, and it may not even be a single person!
I will ignore the owner because it is so odd.
I have a two-fold idea: show roles more widely, and allow social roles to be
defined.
A person's roles should be shown on a post. This will provide more context to
the post. For example a post by me to this group could be headed up
From: Michael JasonSmith — Group Administrator
(Not all roles should be shown, but we can discuss that later.)
The second part of my idea is to allow generic social roles to be defined
within the group context. For example, in this group Richard may be given the
role “System Architect” to give some context to his posts — which, lets face
it, should have more gravitas than my ramblings.
I have written a ticket that encompasses both my ideas
<https://projects.iopen.net/groupserver/ticket/437>.
*Footnotes*
1. The list of hard roles is mostly the work of
Alice, who wrote the Manage Members code that
I used to compile the list!
2. What we call a “group administrator” is *mostly*
a matter of skinning.
I've actually used the Participation Coach role a lot. Especially when new groups are establshed the group owner, or administrator has very little experience (none) on using LinkedIn Groups and I've served and coach to the administrator and to the group as they get started. So I see it as a useful function. John Dan Randow wrote: For as long as I can remember, GroupServer has supported a role called Participation Coach in a group. This is primarily a social role, and has been technically almost identical to a regular group member. This role has many names, but I think of it as a "go to" person for the group. What I can't remember is any particular reason for the role to exist. In almost all cases, a group has only one group admin, who is by default, the "go to" person for that group. In groups with multiple admins, they could all perform the function of the "go to" person. We have a proposal to remove this role. https://projects.iopen.net/groupserver/ticket/411 Currently, the group properties include the "owner" of the group. I think this remains an important thing to declare, as it tells the group members and others (in public and priovate groups) who has convened the group, and therefore has a key interest in its functioning, and the power to decommission it. What do you think of this?
Dan
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