tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134984922011-06-08T01:16:06.944-05:00This is a space for collective conversation for our FieldWorking Online community participants.sathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958924517413449450noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13498492.post-1118183853163159972005-06-07T17:25:00.000-05:002005-06-07T17:37:47.956-05:00so. we've tried html-based guestbook scripts. we've tried high-end subscription community bbs services. matching our community's needs with a simple, responsive, and affordable technology has been a challenge. getting a critical mass of users participating regularly enough to justify and satisfy individual posts and queries has been a challenge-- especially when "we" the site's administrators struggle to check in here regularly, given the pressures of our own full-time academic work, etc. <br /><br />so here's an attempt from another angle: a blog. we've used blogs elsewhere for other purposes and found this technology to be surprisingly user-friendly and dynamic. therefore we're giving it a whirl for the purposes of fieldworking online. we've constructed this as a "team" blog--the <i>team</i> being any and all participants interested in working with and sharing <i>FieldWorking</i> concepts and pedagogical practices-- please count yourself welcome as a member of that team, and send <a href=mailto:sarah@navelgazer.com>sarah</a> an email requesting an official subscription invitation. it's pretty straight-forward, but if you hit a snag, sarah can try to help you unravel that, too.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13498492-111818385316315997?l=fieldworking.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958924517413449450noreply@blogger.com11