But so many online collaborations lose their way in the butterfly house of random thoughts and cerebral detours. People ask questions that don\u2019t get answered; people ask questions and give answers that are ambiguous; people get sidetracked; people neglect the forum for hours or even days.<\/p>\n
These are the symptoms; frustration is the disease. Frustration becomes passive aggression. And apathy would creep in if it could be bothered. Instead of the desired result of the work being spread among eager members of a team, the normal result of the same few usual suspects doing everything occurs, and one or two of the regulars give up and quit.<\/p>\n
In the interests of avoiding litigation, I\u2019ve imagined a new collaboration product called \u201cLooseGoose\u201d. It\u2019s like Slack in that \u201cslack\u201d and \u201cloose\u201d are near-synonyms, and it\u2019s not unconnected with Skype, because geese fly through the sky.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the Kilntown and District Soup Can Collectors Society\u2019s stroll through the lepidopterarium[iii]<\/a><\/sup> went.<\/p>\n [i]<\/a><\/sup> I said \u201clike\u201d; I haven\u2019t found evidence of products with these names, but if you\u2019re the owner of one of these product names, let me know and I\u2019ll make the appropriate edits.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a><\/sup> That\u2019s 800lb to you non-metric luddites.<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a><\/sup> Butterfly house<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kilntown and District Soup Can Collectors Society is planning its first annual expo. But like most organizations these days, its members have schedules that look like the spandex at a Weightwatchers meeting\u2014overstuffed. So in an attempt to minimize or eliminate planning meetings, the secretary suggested they use one of the many online collaboration tools available. In case you don\u2019t… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,486],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-commentaries","category-scripts","tag-collaboration-exasperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ConvoPart1-225x300.jpg\")
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