Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 16:58 +0200, Michael Hallgren a écrit : > Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit : > > Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems > > like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a > > blogspot account would make a lot more sense. > > Yes. > > What about (continue to) use old email (inc lists), coupled with > some roughly out-of-band like cell/pots/sms service? And in parallel > old irc, et al. > > Any severe problem with, asking us to move over to "portal > services"?
Of course not negative with respect to new innovative means... But if we didn't have pidgin: msn, yahoo!, gtalk, icq, facebook,... ... would be hard to manage... and remember who's message to track via what channel... So, the channel I think is much dependent on the audience. The crowd small enough, most any means will be fine. The crowd more universal, well-known, stable communication protocols should be a natural choice. No? mh > > mh > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks <t...@americafree.tv> wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In article > > > <786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv>, > > > Marshall Eubanks <t...@americafree.tv> writes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with > > > > > > actual real life customers. </sarcasm> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm about to recommend to an organisation that it [a twitter account] is > > > better than posting news of an outage on their low-volume website, which > > > will get swamped when too many people poll it for news. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What if the outage takes out their website too ? > > > > > > I don't think that their website was up, and I would guess that they > > > didn't > > > have email either. That > > > is a bad situation to be in. > > > > > > Note, BTW, that twitter itself is subject to frequent planned and > > > unplanned > > > outages. > > > > > > Marshall > > > > > > > > > > What does the team think? > > > > > > > > Paying a lot more to host the website with higher "burst" capacity > > > > during > > > an emergency, isn't an option. > > > > > > > > The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive > > > > an > > > SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in one > > > SMS). > > > > -- > > > > Roland Perry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > Marshall Eubanks > > > CEO / AmericaFree.TV > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- michael hallgren, mh2198-ripe