The story

of

NI Online

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Stunning Statistics

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100 members

 

60:40/Male:Female

80:20/Ext:Int

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>1000 messages

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Top Ten Topics

 

Position

Topic

No Postings

 1

What you can change/change dialogue/is change really possible

99

 2

Drivers for change

44

 3

Welcome back poem

39

 4

Stress change and energy

35

 5

Peeking under the blanket

33

 6

NI "company" a discussion

29

 7

What NI can be/do

28

 8

Issues facing a small engineering company

23

 9

Leadership

19

 10

Choral singing - working on the shadow

17

 

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The Online Awards Table

Counting, comments and awards were undertaken carefully, solemnly and on the whole soberly by the judges.

Apologies for any mistakes. Do not enter into correspondence!!! ...... but instead please take charge of correcting all the oversights, omissions and errors of judgement:

... to the unsung heroes, and all the people in the NI Community who in your opinion really deserve them!

Of course we know it's not all about volume and less is often more, but we wanted a method to measure so we used No of Postings plus awards for style of contribution.

 

Position

Name

No of postings 2001

Awards

(Please add your own Comments!)

 1

James

86

Special Award: "Virtual Soapbox" for longest postings, most prolific, most disaffected with modern world, most generative of impassioned debate...

 2

Uly

45

Special Award: "Stimulating Diversions" for spider(wo)man, kitchen gadgets, engineering industry, trades unions, environmental projects, gossip

 3

Brian H

41

Special Award: "AKA" as in "also known as.." for covert operations behind constantly changing email identities

 4

Fiona

40

Special Award: "Whirlwind" for sweeping us along on a gust of honest, emotive, heartfelt, appreciative, sometimes confrontative, always engaging, fun

 5

Andy H

40

Special Award: "Oscar" for bringing a theatrical flavour, speaking out while encouraging others

 6

Jeremy K

35

Award: "Never in Person" for unflagging support and contributing like the best of them online but never actually turning up!

 7

Colston

35

Special Award: "Minimalist Moderator" for short, relevant and interesting postings

 8

Julian Burton

30

Award: "Shaking Our Tree" for peeking under the blanket strand.

Comment: most consecutive postings in shortest time on Drivers for Change

 9

Jeremy Raymond

24

Award: "Owl" for his clear voice of reason, always thoughtful and wise postings

10 

Nick Heap

22

 

 11

Hazel J

21

 That's my birthday! (40 in Feb)

 12

Lilly

20

Award: "Nobel Peace Prize" for Dear Tonies email

 13

Richard F Cooke

20

 Award: "Agent Provocateur" for questioning, provoking and generally putting grit into NI Online (and F"F)

 14

Clive W

19

 

 15

Stephen L

17

 

 16

Peter Callender

17

 

 17

Terri McN

16

 

 18

Eva Beazley

16

 

 19

Andy S

15

 

 20

Wendy M

12

 

 21

Theresa Barnett

11

 

 22

Tony W

10

Award: "Thorny Challenger" - for voicing frustration, honest anger and common sense provocation

+ rudest post "this is pathetic!"

23

Denis Roberts

10

 

 24

Jill Fairbairns

9

 

 25

Jo McHale

8

 

 26

Ian Holder

8

 The "Jacques Cousteau" Award for going deep into the NI Online process "I can't believe the projections going on round here!"

27 

Ian B

8

 The "Roladex" Award for most successful business contact made following an online posting

 28

Garth

7

 

 29

Wendy H

7

 The "Oxo Mum" award for making stimulating connections between home and working life

 30

Deborah Tom

7

 

 31

Jane Humby

7

 

 32

Ann Radford

7

 

 33

Julie Bickerton

7

 The "Playtex" award for sparing but always supportive contributions online.

 34

Michael B Mole

7

Award: "Laser Beam" for occasional concise, focused, blasts of energy

 35

Jenny Knight

7

 

 36

Steve Moss

7

 

 37

Nic Shugar

5

 

 38

Peter Desmond

5

 

 39

Khurshed

5

 

 40

Yvana

5

 

 41

Karen Lee

4

 

 42

Roddy & Alice

4

 

 43

Terry B

4

 

 44

AlanWM

4

 

 45

John Wilson

4

 

 46

Tessa Bradon

4

 

 47

Philip Cameron

4

 

 48

Philip Gibson

3

 

 49

Jean Marc

3

 

 50

Pat Dannahy

3

 

 51

Richard Chapman

3

Award: "Zen Lurker" for bearing witness, supporting from a "less is more" stance

 52

Luke Wilde

3

 

 53

Ed Rowland

3

 

 54

Paul Pivcevic

3

 

 55

Amanda D

2

 

 56

Di Watts

2

 

 57

Mark Sinclair

2

 

 58

Malcolm Tulloch

2

 

 59

Bill Tate

2

 

 60

Katy Phipps

2

 

 61

Jan Morgan

2

 

 62

Deborah R

1

 

63 

Mats

1

 

 64

Sam Deeks

1

 

 65

Jim Wade

1

Comment: Fastest to unsubscribe (5 Oct, left 12 Oct)!

 66

Julia H

1

 

 67

Sophie G

1

 

 68

David McK

1

 

 69

David Webster

1

 

 70

David Archer

1

 

 71

David Billingham

1

 

 72

Martin Thompson

1

 

 73

Didier Marlier

1

 

 74

David Carter

1

 

 

Author: Tony Page, winner of the "BMA Open Heart Surgery" Award for soul-baring online.