This is MetaGroupies, a group blog where Group Founders and Administrators meet to discuss issues of group management, share tips, policies, organizational choices and the like.
Hi everyone - I'm tmo (god I wish I'd come up with a catchier username but this was back in 2004 when I wasn't thinking it would last this damn long). The groups I've founded are "Livelihood Chronicles", which is for providing resources and support and advice for unemployed or underemployed or unhappily employed Kossacks, and "Oakland Community Blog", for gathering all the Oaklanders on DK.
I was thinking that it might be useful to discuss us coming up with a set of recommended "best practices" for group admins and editors that we can publish regularly and/or post somewhere accessible. This would just be some guidance for new admins and editors, to give them a place to start so people aren't constantly having to re-invent the wheel.
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