I believe you are correct, I checked a few "EDI" groups on Linked In and I don't see much activity. Also, my email is up and running all the time, I don't really have time to "check in" elsewhere to comment/reply. I'm sure Linked in is very helpful for many people and many things, but so far I have not found a good use for it myself. After all, there are lots of people who use facebook, including two girls who got trapped in an underground tunnel of some sort and used their ...ahem...phone....to update their facebook status to "trapped in tunnel". Now, me, I would have used my PHONE to CALL 911, but I guess that's too old school.
Leah ________________________________ From: "Hurd, Richard [SLCUS]" <[email protected]> To: Chris Johnson <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 2:10:04 PM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Link to EDI-L on LinkedIn Taking nothing away from Skip's effort, I learned an awful lot about managing groups by being a sysop of my company BBS and also a Compuserve Sysop (yes, I am a member of Skip's Old Geeks. I still have my sysop copy of TAPCIS - who else was a Compuserve junkie?) Anyway, the rule of thumb there is that separate message areas were split out only when the group became so unmanageable because of the number of subscribers and the number of topics tended to drown everything. Then you could carefully create more dedicated message areas. I can't tell you how many bulletin boards I logged onto with hundreds of "rooms" (or whatever you wanted to call them) each of them holding one message; the automated "Welcome" message from the sysop. Very sad. On the other hand, spillover from an active, existing group ensures that you maintain the viability and activity as the group splits. The same thing seems to be happening with EDI affinity groups within LinkedIn. MHO, of course. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Johnson Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Link to EDI-L on LinkedIn Quoted text is from <[email protected]>, by Skip <[email protected]> >Here is a direct link to the group I have created over on LinkedIn: > >EDI-L OK. I have joined. However I wonder a little about how successful it will be. The Yahoo group must have a couple of thousand members and even so seems to teeter on the fringes of criticality a lot of the time. What added value will the LinkedIn one offer? I have joined various EDI discussion forums (fora?) over the years and they have never been exactly buzzing with activity. Regards Chris -- Chris Johnson mobile:+44 (0)7785 302122 Fax: +44 (0)870 0519 818 EDI website http://www.edimatrix.co.uk EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0845 126 0680 or +44 20 8778 1402 Registered in UK no. 2777624 Reg.Office: 34 Sydenham Rd, London SE26 5QF ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
