On Monday and Tuesday, a our group met in Austin to discuss the immediate needs to the Juvenile Case Manager position created by SB 61 and SB 209. As those in attendance know, I am Tad Hasse and was the only I.T. Geek in the room, ergo: this site.
As soon as I receive the updated participant list, I will make everyone that was involved into authors. This will allow you to create topics for discussion in comments under the topic. If playing computer author is not exactly your cup of tea, don't worry. You won't hurt it by trying. For those that approached me as not being at home in this environment, don't worry. Simply email me the title and body of what you want posted and I'll take care of it. my email is cjhasse@cob.us, it is also thasse@gmail.com . I get both mail address notifications instantly on my phone and will promptly deal with any of the issues you may have. Most notably, I would like any links, contact info, etc. for the Juvenile Case Manager's Association so that I may put links on the side. The authorship status is not limited to the participants at the conference. There are probably a lot of knowledgeable folks who just couldn't make the conference but whose participation would be a plus for us. Have them contact me and I'll set them up, too.
I am making this forum into open commenting, but if you pick "anonymous" and don't include some reference to yourself, we won't know who it is. This format will probably get a couple of spam posts which I will clean out, but it is much faster interaction than if I were to moderate each post before it is published. People do not need to be authors to post and comment on topics.
Soon, I will create a couple of Wiki's with side links for active collaboration on document creation. A Wiki allows members of a group to edit a single document and track revisions and who added or changed sections or wording. It probably won't be for everyone, but everyone will be able to keep track of the works in progress on these documents.
I would suggest that people post comments on this title posting so everyone knows that you are here and for the people new to blog style interaction, a chance to get comfortable with it.
My boss, Judge Neece has given me permission to use all the time and resources of our Court necessary to support this project, so I am more or less at your disposal.
Tad Hasse
I sent all the author invites. If you have a blogger ID you would prefer to use, I will add it as a author, just let me know. If none of this makes sense, pop me an email, call or text at 956 455-1925 and I'll get you all set up. For the folks at TMCEC, have a look at a hierarchical setup that I did some years ago here: http://imaginebrownsville.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteIt may give you an idea or two for setting up committee/subcommittee interactive cooperation and discussion. I did it all with a huge number of individual blogs, all tied together with the sidebar menu to seem to be single site with lots of "rooms". Best of all, it was free. The site did not get the official imprinter, so it didn't become the "modus communicati" for the project.
This was done with the "Name/URL" option, with the URL left blank. See the difference?
ReplyDeleteThis was Tad as "Anonymous"
ReplyDeleteFrom Hope
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tad and Judge Neese for setting this up.
Yesterday I emailed out the contact information for our group. Steve Fagan's email was incorrect- my apologies. It should be: sfagen@mckinneytexas.org
Tad - can I sign up on my hope@tmcec.com account rather than my gmail account?
Again, thanks! Hope
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ReplyDeleteSorry for the delay, Hope. Yes, you can. Like everyone else on the 'net, Google pushes you down a cattle chute to move everything to their service.
ReplyDeleteHERE IS THE TRICK:
1)Don't be logged in to your google, gmail, etc.
2)Go to www.blogger.com and click "Get Started"
3)Fill out the page and click next.
4)Don't fill out the "Create blog" page, just wait for the verification email from Google.
5)Click the activate link in the mail from Google.
6) You can now close out the "Create Blog" screen and sign in with the email you just created.
You can fix everything else like bio information, pictures, etc from the "Dashboard" at the top right of the screen when logged in to any blog. I deleted the above comment to add this little bit about editing the profile.
I just did the above steps with my City email.
Tad