I know about blogs verywell. I know the purpose of blogs before anyone tells about it. Thinking louder and penning kelometres long is possible with blogs.
I discussed this much because I strongly felt that Blog is not necessory for our group. Bloggers from our group can write about our group in their blogs and propagate. But blogging within our members ?!... Still Iam not convinced. Regards Krishna 9247180489 --- In [email protected], "ulprasanthi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Krishna garu, > > Please remove 'garu' for me. I am younger to you in all respects. > > Coming to the discussion on blog, > > As mentioned by Nachaki and the supporters of blog, that is only > sharing of thoughts on a higher level, in the sense, we pen our > aspirations, our dreams, our suggestions etc., etc., blog is nothing > but thinking louder. > > Whereas this yahoo group is for communication and discussion. Mails > are expected to be read by every member. All the necessary information > related to our activities will be posted in a site called, > geocities.com/tomakeadifference. > > I already posted the zip file of all the information in the dokkuface4 > site and I will upload them all to the new one and will let you know > once it is ready. (Hopefully by this sunday). > > Regarding making the mails private, I don't think so that it is > required. Let us not mail the confidential details but have them with > the local representatives of each city and communicate offline. > > I think and hope that the purpose of blog is clear by now. Blog is for > publicity and thinking louder. Yes. We need new members. We will go > slowly but steadily but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try for new > members. Those who are interested will search and those who > accidentally came to know will join if interested. So there is nothing > like compulsion here for anyone. > > Thank you. > > with regards, > PRASANTHI. > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "webdesigningexpert" > <webdesigners@> wrote: > > > > Kiran (Nachaki) garu, > > > > Prasanthi garu already supported my openion of keeping a separate > > email for group and not to post personal information in the group. > > This will be the solution for privacy.Privacy problem is over. > > > > Next > > > > >>Google's toolbar 4 beta provides a button to search blogs alone! > > > > Our group too have search facility. One need not to be a webdesigner > > or Software professional to know about it. > > > > I don't think that any of our members find difficult to post > > messages here. Yahoo groups is also easy to post,reply and read. > > > > Some may have interest in writing for blogs and reading. That is > > separate issue. > > > > Never an unknown person searches in internet with the term - "Raju's > > case". No one searches for "To make a difference group "(with spaces > > or without spaces)except our members. > > > > An unknown and prospective browser searches in other terms. > > > > We don't need flooding of members. Let our friend of freind join > > this group and he introduces group to some of his friends like...as > > happening now. So we can have members with understanding, trust > > within eachother and like mindedness. > > > > Service is vast. We have limitations. Letus do maximum using our > > resources with dedication. > > > > Regards > > Krishna > > > > --- In [email protected], NaChaKi > > <nachakigroups@> 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 > > > > > >
