isaackoi
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Post by isaackoi on Sept 13, 2011 6:00:14 GMT -5
How about you isaac, maybe you can share also some of your UFO experiences. If you have a website, maybe you can also share it to us....thanks Hi lawsinium, I'll post a bit about myself in the discussion thread entitled "What are you doing to increase your knowledge" at: forums.mufon.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=52All the best, Isaac
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Post by isaackoi on Sept 13, 2011 6:21:05 GMT -5
My name is Morgan and I am one of those dedicated and very busy MUFON field investigators that also holds a leadership position Hi Morgan, Thanks for taking the time to post a response. I appreciate it. I know the feeling... Some UFO-related projects have taken me several years to finish that I could have got done in a few weeks if it wasn't for my job, family, other interests and a desire to get some sleep sometimes! I think a lot of people interested in issues related to UFO reports are in the same boat. I'm glad to hear it. I've seen the preview video and the relevant threads on here about Project Bravo / UFO Connect and look forward to seeing this project in action. I must confess, however, that I get a bit wary when I hear about a "game changing " project within Ufology that "will revolutionize the public interaction with the UFO phenomena forever" (as stated in your comments in another thread), since many people have over-hyped their UFO projects/books/documentaries/seminars in the past. Nothing personal. I presume that the lack of responses in the relevant discussion thread is, at least in part, due to other people being similiarly wary. When you have the time, I'd still interested in hearing your views (or another moderator / MUFON representative) as to how creating THIS FORUM helps. I'm mainly concerned that fragmentation of discussion of various sighting/issues results in information being lost. Perhaps FEWER forums would be better than MORE forums? Particularly given the limited amount of time that you and other MUFON volunteers have, is this forum more a distraction and a diversion of your efforts than a valuable addition? If the forum is to remain, perhaps some sort of programme can be sorted out so that various people in leadership positions and/or with knowledge of MUFON's more interesting projects/resources (e.g. the Pandora Project, CMS 2, UFO Connect) within MUFON participate on here, even if only for a single discussion. Particularly if they only committed to participate in one particular discussion during their spare time on one set day, this would not be a major intrusion of their time but could result in this forum making a real contribution to understanding the current state of ufology (or at least the current state of MUFON). For example, perhaps someone involved in the Pandora Project (or with knowledge of it) could participate in a relevant discussion thread on one day this week, and on one day the following week you could have a random State Director talk about his (or her) role etc etc. If notice of the relevant discussion threads were given in advance, I'd be happy to mention the proposed discussion on a few other UFO forums. If only a few questions are asked in any particular discussion thread in such a programme, the relevant guest here may only have to spend, say, a total of half an hour during their spare time on that day to help people outside MUFON understand their work and available resources. Those people could, of course, simply participate in such a discussion on one of the numerous other existing forums - but I presume they will be likely to participate on the MUFON forum and respond favourably to an invitation/request from its moderators. Anyway, it's just an idea for you guys to think about. (And I do know that it's much quicker to come up with ideas than it is to implement them... ) All the best, Isaac
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Post by mo on Sept 13, 2011 11:29:11 GMT -5
Making this forum give you the reader and general public a voice and place to share ideas and let us know what you would like to see among other obvious functions. We are working on a item call My MUFON that will address the issue of integration and communication with MUFON and with the general public and subscribers. Proboards may not be a permanent structure but we may find a way to integrate it into the MUFON Social Network structure. Our mission will of course keep this a open and free function of the My MUFON idea. We plan on also integrating the e-journal, MUFON Central, Chat, forums, Store and personal profiles along with shared (face book twitter) accounts, videos and photos. This of course will be part of Phase 2 of a multiple phase project to redevelop the web experience for MUFON and the participating public and subscribers. You will be able to connect and follow items such as News and Radio within the My MUFON account. We are always looking for more ideas so keep them coming in. All these ideas along with connecting special project within the forums will be feasible and a great opportunity for these projects to be conveyed properly to the listing and reading public. In regards to the UFO Connect (Project Bravo) discussion. I to share the same wariness you have with UFOLOGY in general. I assure you my team and myself are different than anything that has participated in ufo related projects and we are only interested in getting the job done and done well as a "team". Your guys input is very important to us and we really appreciated constructive criticism. For those that would like to get involved start at the local level as we all have. Every Chapter in America and abroad needs your help. We really are a grass roots effort and only the volunteer can make this all happen from a local to global effort. It holds as much importance no matter the scale.
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Post by lawsinium on Sept 13, 2011 20:57:09 GMT -5
If the structure of this board will not be permanent, i would suggest that postings be just random by taking out classifications. In this case if a discussion is replied, it bumps up to the top on the list of posts or threads. In this way, we can see which 5 or 10 or 15 topics are hot or sticky and which are not. Just a suggestion. Thanks.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 14, 2011 11:11:53 GMT -5
If you look up towards the top where it says "new topics" and click on that it will bring up the latest topics that people have responded to. That way you don't have to search through the entire board.
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Post by lawsinium on Sept 14, 2011 21:29:12 GMT -5
Thanks skywalker. I'm just used to this kind of format that when you google the name of the forum, the list of new topics show up right away. It is like the table of contents of a book. Just by seeing the table, it tells you at once what's going on in a forum. Which topics are hot and sticky. How many peeps are interested in that particular thread and if you are a regular poster you can track at once all you posted in just one click.
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isaackoi
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Post by isaackoi on Sept 18, 2011 15:15:16 GMT -5
We are working on a item call My MUFON that will address the issue of integration and communication with MUFON and with the general public and subscribers. That sounds good - but I still have difficulty in understanding why more of MUFON's leadership does not appear to wish to participate in discussions on MUFON's own forums (or, in my experience, on many other UFO forums and email discussion lists). The improved technology that you and your team appear to be working hard on will only improve "communication with MUFON" if those people want to be involved. All the best, Isaac
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Post by skywalker on Sept 18, 2011 16:49:21 GMT -5
I think this forum was created by some of the individual MUFON members who actually want to have a forum. I doubt that the leadership cares if it exists or not. It was probably like that with the last forum too although I remember there were a few SDs who took part in it. None of the board members did though.
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Post by lawsinium on Sept 18, 2011 20:17:38 GMT -5
hmmmmm....that's interesting .....
I hope I'm in the right official website of mufon too ...
lol.
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Post by mo on Sept 21, 2011 9:56:26 GMT -5
Isaac, Most are very busy, I barely have the time. I think what is missing is that people really do not understand the amount of work investigating UFO sightings is on top of holding a day job. We are here now, I am one of the leaders involved in MUFON HQ. We have many field investigators nationwide that are on this forum and there are board members that read the posts. Its not mandatory and certainly not a priority for Field Investigators to Blog or participate in the forum. Skywalker, They do care. Admittedly it was a bad decision to replace the old boards with members only forums but that was the decision that was made. It did not work so now we have a much more professional and experienced team working on these issues and we hope to prove this to you in the coming year. Best i can do to assure you other than sacrificing my first born.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 21, 2011 11:05:08 GMT -5
I am holding my breath in anticipation.
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Post by awmperry on Apr 23, 2012 17:35:33 GMT -5
I'm happy to help out too - I know my way around HTML, and I've moderated a fair few fora in the past.
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