Greetings. I am in the process of backing up my G+ Communities and I'm running the Google+ Exporter tool that generates JSON, Blogger, and WP4 and 5 files that you can import into whatever platform you'd like to port your G+C to, in case you wish to preserve it as an archive. Do you want me to grab a set of files for you while I'm at it? Or are you making your own backup (or not planning to preserve a backup after G+ shuts down about a week from now)?
Happy to help if I can as long as I'm tooled up for it and just downloading files. I plan to put the files in my Google Drive so people can download them, or I can help you with the process if you'd like to do it yourself. Standing by!
Thanks, Vance. That's generous of you to offer. I've been exporting all of our communities (using the same tool). I plan on keeping all of the archive files, and have been playing with exporting them to blogger and wp to see if they'll make useable archives. So far, blogger has an edge because it keeps the author name on posts. They aren't terribly useful for continuing any community, but at least we won't lose the data. It looks like I could export the community to a new social site, like MeWe, but that would require members to join yet another social network. The other alternative is to create a community within the iTDi site using our forums -- we're working on the social side of things there now. However, the archive of chats would be lost. Open to suggestions :)
ReplyDeleteok, glad to hear you are on top of it. i am just vacuuming up communities I was a part in and have your JSON, Blogger, WP4, and WP5 file up through yesterday. I'll keep them on hand but do nothing further, and look forward to having the link to your blog when you settle on a format. Incidentally, Blogger looks best to us too in EVOMC MOOC.
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