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This may be a question for Jim ultimately, but floating an idea developed with a colleague not too long ago:

(1) what do you think about adding a chat room to this network (e.g. meebo)

(2) once a chat room is in place, using it for scheduled talks on specific themes for these purposes:
(a) professional development/instruction
(b) brainstorming ideas
(c) support for one another, such as when one of us has a problem to quickly solve
(d) other?

kind of like an online unconference session which we could spontaneously hold at any time.

Any interest?

Tags: chat, professional development

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Okay, so it looks like we now have a meebo chat room on the front page. What do folks think about idea (2) above?
I'd love to try utilizing the chat for professional development or a brainstorming session.
I love it! Let's schedule something!
Is there any way to add a wiki to Ning so we can develop some ideas, create a schedule?
There's a wiki widget for Ning:

http://widgetlaboratory.ning.com/widget.php?app=wiki

(Note: It appears that you have to join WidgetLaboratory's network to get access to this page.)
I've just joined WidgetLaboratory, but then you still need to purchase the Wiki widget--for $139.99. I don't think so!
Yikes! Thanks for trying, Jim. Must be another way...
I was afraid there was a catch. (I was hoping that registration was the catch ....)

I've seen various claims that Ning is developing a wiki feature. But for now, the closest thing is apparently the Notes feature.
I've just enabled the Notes feature. It looks fairly Wiki-like.
Jim Milles has added a "Notes" feature to the front page. I have started space to put in your ideas for sessions. Please add your ideas!
I've learned a way that a network creator or administrator can add a wiki. You would create a wiki at PBWiki -- say, http://lawlibrariesning.pbwiki.com/. Then you would embed the wiki into a text box with code like this:

iframe src="http://lawlibrariesning.pbwiki.com/?raw=bare" width="475" Height="570" iframe

[I've left off the angle brackets from this code, since otherwise Ning will think I'm actually trying to embed something!]

See http://pbwikifanclub.pbwiki.com/WilkiMon_WhatsNewWindow

Or, we can wait for the embeddable wiki from WetPaint:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/wetpaint-preparing-embeddable-...
Sorry, change that to:

iframe src="http://lawlibrariesning.pbwiki.com/" width="750" Height="500" iframe

If you put this code in the left column, with nothing to the right of it, the iframe is big enough to accommodate a wiki (or at least a wiki with a relatively forgiving template that can be narrowed).

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