There’s no pulse Doctor!

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By niloc

Wed 26 Nov, 2008 - 17:24

Do we really 'know' who the community is? Maybe we need to explore this a little more to find the answers Jan?

By Janine Moolman

Thu 20 Nov, 2008 - 11:07

I think there are many reasons. See the "Letter to the Editor" below I received today ...

Dear Jan:

When it comes to blogging, as an old internet slave, I must admit that often when I want to talk to a publication like Sangonet, I just prefer to sit down and write to the Editor directly. I find that I get a bit of a twitch with social networking and blogging, as I do not really fully understand them, and I am really unsure of them. Often I post on my blog, and I wonder if I am like this crazy old NGO person just talking to myself in a room somewhere in cyberspace, and no one is really seeing what I am saying. I suppose that is the danger when no one replies, as you are not sure if you took a wrong turn, and if anyone ever got to hear you? I worry with blogging, particularly in the NGO world, that it will not work so well, as you have to sit down and dedicate some serious time to it, and then it seems so unrewarding, not immediate and so not like the rest of the net. Perhaps it is just something myself and a lot of other NGO people need to get our heads around?

Regards

Robin

I think that this presents us with an interesting challenge... how do we encourage users to blog, upload content and build the NGO Pulse community?

By Tian Johnson

Wed 19 Nov, 2008 - 14:33

I suspect the "old silent treatment"....... I remember the Weekly Whinge! I loved it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but it soon became the realm of the few of us who were willing to take the time to vent and rant or those of us who believed that in order for evil to prosper etc etc..................

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 09:45

Was it an attempt at mass CPR? Was the patient long dead and no one had written out the death certificate yet? Was it an exercise in dry humour, subtle sarcasm or gentle cynicism? Was it just plain naïve hope and trust?

When SANGONeT became NGO Pulse the name must have been given some thought… of this I am sure. Ahh, a pulse! Life! But what happened next? Did our ‘vibrant civil society’ go quiet on us, give us the good old silent treatment, or just decide not to bother? You tell me.

Okay, I know we are ‘all too busy to write and comment on some odd computer thing’. But wait – we know that people actually look. That ‘computer thing’ can tell us that much – they look and read in healthy numbers. Why then don’t we say something? We have much to say, don’t we? We ask for platforms to share our learning, we ask for spaces to ‘speak our minds’, we demand the right to engage in issues that impact on us. Then we fall quiet. The curtains open and we forget our lines. The silent stage. Or is it more complex? I am sure it is. Tell us. In the mean time, back to the CPR…