Friends Of CNM newsletter, 2019-05-05
Ladies and Gentlemen ... Greetings from CNM Digital Services team ... Significant developments on several initiatives ... Please review thoroughly and, as always, if more is needed just let us know and we'll shift fires accordingly ...
Introducing CNM IT
This newsletter continues introducing CNM IT to you. At this time, we are recruiting volunteers for CNM IT Taskforce, which primary purpose is to put our technology to work.
Last week, we started the introductions with CNM Videos. Today, we will touch CNM Mails and CNM Certs. Next week, we plan to continue with CNM Wikis and CNM Labs.
CNM Mails
When you visit <a href="https://video.friendsofcnm.org/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">video.friendsofcnm.org</a>, you are getting to the site of our future services called CNM Videos. With regard to technology, it can be called "CNM Youtube." Indeed, our software is very similar with the one that Youtube uses. The difference is that we are responsible for UX design and content of our service. That particularly means that have the fullest control over what videos are posted and how those videos can be viewed. We can also assign categories and sequences to adapt them better to our patrons' needs.
Imagine what we together can do with CNM Videos. We can post there the CNM orientation, seminar presentations, and event previews, streamline our events, etc. Currently, just a couple of test videos are published, but the technology is ready to be used and our video-sharing service is waiting for your help. Would you like to be a part of that change?
Our team is able to implement pretty much any requirement, but someone like you should envision how this service should look like. Who should be given rights to upload the videos? Comment on them? Should we need any adds? If so, what types of those adds be? Who would edit the videos? Oversee the content? Decide whether the videos should ever retire? Who should be able to delete or flag the videos? Is the current CNM Videos' logo good? If not, what should the logo be? How intellectual property issues shall be resolved? Should we ban anyone from commenting or posting? If so, how this ban should look like? Should any metrics like visits, views, clicks, etc. be collected? If so, which ones? Who and how would used them? And ... who shall formulate new questions to be addressed?
As a member of our future CNM Videos Taskforce, you are invited to get involved. And, by the way, you are invited to suggest a change of that tentative name for this body too.
How to get started
Here are a couple of scenarios for how to get started:
- If you don't have time or interest to help with development, stay tuned and get back when the service is up and running;
- If you have a description of your desired role, reply to this email and attach it;
- If you are interested in joining our taskforce, RSVP for the taskforce meeting (for instance, the one for May 7th is published at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/mbc-cnm/events/260915652/" target="_blank">meetup.com/mbc-cnm/events/260915652</a> ) or just show up in Vienna VA on Tuesday nights and find me. Fortunately or unfortunately, I am rarely available to meet you at any other place and/or any other time.
Blessings, peace, thanks! --Gary, Natly, Romanof, and Paul at CNM Digital Services
