[Air-L] Discussion platform suggestions?

[Murray Turoff]

Jose, everything you want for a discussion plratform and more was aavaiable
in the EIES
system from 1975 to around 1995.
See the network nation book by hiltz and turoff, for a complete description.
The only product today able to do all this is the system many universities
use for
teaching on line courses which was built by a consortium of those
universities, but it does not have a simple interface and a lot of overhead
to handle administration processes for faculty and students.
some message system software is modifiable and professionals have modified
it to create special functions such as voting on how good a comment is when
people are asking others to solve problems

​what you are talking about would be further improved if followed the
principles of the Delphi method for example, allowing anonymous or pen name
input.​
see the first two chapters of the delphi method book free on my website by
linstone and turoff.
http://is.njit.edu/turoff









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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:24:13 +1000
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Hi all,



I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third
party discussion platform that meets the below criteria.



FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing
posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to
perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group
members posts when necessary.



ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet
computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to
navigate user interface.



PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group
members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own
username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name
or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even
though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for
participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each
other’s names).



I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to
elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the
project’s existing use of interviews and workshops.



I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to
quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS.



Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance!

Josie


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