iContent Robot

Stompernet affiliation will indeed provide you (and Dominiche) with both the secure setting and the “cachet”
to more easily build your own proprietary Encyclopedia/Wikipedia — with minimal malicious obstruction. I wish you good luck, will be watching your progress, and cheering from the sidelines.

With best wishes.

Lynn E. Catoe-Emerson

New enough to all of this that I can only add how much I have loved being a part of the 30DC and how much I have learned. And I would love to see something like this continue the momentum and learning. However, reading through the over 76 comments; I realize that there is still so much I do not know and I am fearful that some of the suggestions would rule out the person like me with just enough information to be dangerous; mostly to myself.

So I would hope that this continues to provide something of value to to those of us new to the process and also to those very experienced in that process. This is what I believe the 30DC was able to accomplish.

Thanks Ed for you continued efforts on our behalf.

I like the dream concept too

Where there’s a will there’s a way and I have not doubt that your proposals will be a big success.

Thanks again to you and the team for everything.

Tamsin

Is there any way to ’self moderate’ by applying the web 2.0 properties such as ratings, ex. like stumble!
self regulating?

margurite,
canada

Thanks so much for all of your giving. I think it sounds like a great idea. I am a software engineer with a pretty diverse background. Currently I develop web related software (a fulltime JOB) using java, javascript, css, html, mysql, etc. If you need a volunteer to assist with some of the programming, I’d be willing to help.

Dean Hoover

(1) Wikipedia clone: the idea is brilliant and could quickly become a go-to reference IF:
(a) the continuation program you propose becomes an experimental laboratory where participants seek additional innovative tools and methods to create the most effective IM products/creatives possible;
(b) candidate participants have completed the basic pre-product-launch steps taught in the 30DC;
(c) candidate participants are willing to participate in a test phase where they will test the click-through rate of their (creative) copy against that of their greatest competitor and experiment with changes that are winners. This testing should become an ongoing operation; the search for Web 2.0 innovations that attract attention that leads to conversions should never cease;
(d) the opportunity for combining resources currently available online to create totally new “mashups” should be encouraged and tested against competing creatives for effectiveness;
(e) 30DCers with the skills might help in development of the “mashups” that then become “open source”
and included in the WikiPedia clone;
(f) participating 30DCers would be able to review the progression and make comments — as well as use
the new tool(s) in their own projects.
(2) Spam:
(a) selection process for the new initiative should include completion of the pre-product-launch steps of the 30DC, specifics about a selected product or service for promotion, and explanation of the product or service’s benefit.
(b) understanding by the candidate participant that tools developed will be “open source”; no personal financial benefit is to be expected.

That’s all for now. I’ll be in touch.

Lynn Catoe-Emerson

But that is what the Thirty day challenge was designed for, to teach those of us who knew nothing about making a living on the internet, to show the right way to get it done. It takes a lot of time for all the information to sink in, so thanks to Ed we can download and watch the information over and over again and by reading the information in blog comments and on the forum we all learn. I believe it is most important to keep this information available to the newbie, or even the experienced person as a real learning tool.

I like the concept of allowing those with knowledge to contribute to help others. One would think this information would be moderated, so new ideas are introduced that have been “proven to work” and then the people who want to learn get the correct information.

The TDC is a free membership site now, and I believe it should remain so. To put a price on information to help the newbie get started would stop anyone taking advantage of the reason the site was started in the first place.

To force someone to make a comment, before they have learnt enough to make an educated comment, would be a waste of resources, so I do not think this kind of “you must make so many comments before your vote is valid” is justified. It is going to make people make comments to build up their voting power and give moderators more work sifting through rehashed information. People will contribute, when they have experienced the results from what they have been taught, with quality information.

There should still be provision for group discussion, an inbuilt skype page eg., the forum, so people can bounce off each other when they need help. I don’t think an information site only with no social features is wise.

I do agree in a voting point system for genuine content. Spammy content that has got past the moderators in the first instance will then be voted down by the members and as some one said earlier no one would click on anyones personal information if they did not get some value from the information they read, seen or heard.

As for the format to set-up all the information and allow people to add content, I don’t have enough information to make a justified comment as to what is best, but I am using cms e107 from e107.org to rebuild my new member site. It has all the features you require and the admin area allows for advanced moderation and certain members can be given limited privileges to moderate content. You can add many social features to the cms and it is more highly recommended, over joomla or drupal. (This is not a ad, just a fair recommendation for a good program)

By the way Ed, your friendly echidna won’t attack, but I would be careful playing around with a male one, they have poisonous spines. I took one to school one day to show the kids, after it dug up my freshly planted vegetable patch. Yes I set him free in the bush later.

The concept is awesome and yes, it would need to bear some resemblance to StomperNet/Free IQ (categories of info, moderation etc.) but with the members contributing the content. One significant draw back to the existing membership sites is that there is no feedback for your material. Or at least there wasn’t until a weekend meeting in Atlanta. Ed is right, the way we communicate is changing and will change dramatically in the future. We have to find ways to get rank but to learn to communicate often with short bursts of information to our followers and keep it interesting and entertaining. Anyone who spends time on the FreeIQ site could tell you that being able to post a video doesn’t mean you should! I for one would love a place to learn but also to practice what I’m learning by getting feedback on the work I produce. This is the piece everyone is missing.

Summary: 1) moderation is necessary.
2) incorporate a marketing platform for blogs/videos etc
3) See Crystal Woods response (I agree to all)
4) include a place where we can submit sales pages, videos, blogs etc for member feedback
5) make contribution to other members part of attaining higher tiers
6) let the site make money in advertising. Affiliates can run ads, use AdSense
etc. This can help offset costs short term and be a money maker long term.
7) have a serious black list policy
require a reference from an existing member of a higher tier to join that tier to
stop spammers from attaining anything but the lowest ranked tier.

I also want to say thanks for the 30DC so far. I have learned as much by watching you, Ed, and how fast you turn events into actionable marketing tools as I did from the 30DC. It is and will continue to be a value.