Hm...till about now I was neutral on this subject. I saw pros and cons on both sides...and still do actually...but after seeing Nachakis' mail...I think WE SHUD BLOG for betterment.
I see Krishnas' view of things too. And keeping in mind all thats been said on the subject till now..I think...We should blog...and ppl not interested or who cannot spare time can always skip it totally. I like the idea of cut pasting some of our mails into blogs...things we feel are milestone subjects or discussions specially. -Divs ********************************************* --- In [email protected], NaChaKi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Krishna gaarU, > > Blogging and privacy of the group are two interconnected issues in my opinion. I shall try not to reiterate my opinions on either, but for this time. > > >> Why Blogs for Make a Difference Group? > > You're a web designer yourself, and an expert at that too! Blogs, unlike group's messages or files, are more search-engine-friendly. In fact, Google's toolbar 4 beta provides a button to search blogs alone! > > BTW, Rajasekharudu and I briefly discussed about this, and I started a community in Orkut with the name "To Make A Difference". Six of my friends have already joined (since morning), and I hope at least a few will join the Yahoo! Group in near future. > > My point is just this: Already now, or in future, we'd get more "cases". With limited number of members, and thus limited contributions that are nearly the same every month, we cannot take up as many new cases or support all the old cases that return. In this context, more members are necessary now or later. For more members, we need more publicity, and it need not necessarily be by word of mouth; we don't need to concentrate on publicity explicitly if a blog or Orkut community or something like that is maintained. We can attract direct friends, and their friends, and their friends, and so on, not to mention strangers who stumble on our community/blog. > > Updating the blog can happen in a jiffy - all one needs to do, say, to post a case, is to cut out the names and contact information of individuals from our e-mail messages, post them on the blog; we can ask any readers interested to help to contact the original poster by e-mail for all details. We can take extra measures to make sure that the information revealed will not be misused. If the group is okay with the idea of blogging, and if we're looking for volunteers, I can take care of it. > > Coming to the privacy of the group: Like I was discussing with Divya (ji dropped upon request) and Prasanthi, we post contact information of members, people related to cases, and other outside helpers like Eenadu Ramakrushna. We cannot expose all that information to the public, just for the sake of "spreading the word". Obviously, we'd always have to post contact information of patients or their relatives in e-mail messages, which can be found by simple Google search. (One need not search for "tomakeadifference" without spaces. One can even search for something as remote as "raju heart" or something, for example; the group does not appear on the first page of the results, but what can we say about any random search!) > > In the wake of this, I suggest we do keep the messages private. > > Like I said, I am only voicing my opinion, and I have no intent of repeating all this again. > > Thanks for a patient reading. > Kiran/NaChaKi >
