Yes. Nachaki. It seems difference of opinion and perception. There is no problem if you take up the official maintenance of the MAD group blog. Its our pleasure. I don't think so that our members would have any objection.
I do agree that website is not interactive (with html pages). But do we need any comments in our website where we post the details? Take for example the present dokkuface4 setup. We just post project reports, completed, current and the ones which needed outside support. Then our aims, objectives so on and so forth. There is a guest book and people can post their comments there. If they have any questions, they can mail us. If we think the question is a general one and whose answer need to be posted, we can do it under 'FAQ' section. In Yahoo Group, we are dealing with current projects, whereas in blog, we address the root cause of issues and think louder and express our feelings, voice our opinion etc., Here we are serving issue by issue. But if we need to address a problem to the core or if we want to increase our circle of like minded people, we resort to blog (in my perception). I personally, as a browser, don't wish to read about a case details in a blog setup. I love to see it in a website setup. Anyways this is my opinion and perception. Thank you. with regards, PRASANTHI. --- In [email protected], NaChaKi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Back to square one, I guess! This topic came up while I spoke to Divya off the group, and it was then we realized that those who were not for the blog (I'd not say they were "against" the idea - it's too strong a word to use.) were doing so for a common reason - jumping between two sites is not necessary/feasible/good. However, each one of those who were proponents to the idea, including yours truly, had a different reason to support the idea! > > Well, I have written my idea of blogs clearly: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tomakeadifference/message/1475 > > I am not sure if everyone is thinking the same. Apparently, Divya saw the advantages of blog from a layman (:-P) point of view; Prasanthi had different ideas ("...blogs are for higher level discussion on a topic and thinking aloud. I assumed it to be a next level platform to the group."). > > Prasanthi, > > << Coming to the cases, we should post them in our group site, as of now it is geocities.com/dokkuface4. >> > > Please do not take it as a personal hurt, but what I felt was this: If I see a case, albeit genuine, on a website that had the id "dokkuface4", I'd have my own doubts about its authenticity. (Of course, if I, the reader, understands what "Dokku" meant.) I understand that's probably why you wanted to create the id tomakeadifference (or something like that). > > We don't need a paid website, because, like you said, those funds can be diverted for a better cause for the needy. A free website is an option, say on freeservers.com (Those who know my personal website know that I personally prefer this, and that's because the website is of the format yourchoice.servername.com, i.e. as a sub-domain on the server and not as a sub-directory, such as geocities.com/dokkuface4). But, well, a website is not as interactive. It's also not searched by many search engines unles you manually request them to index the website. > > This was why *I* proposed blogs in the first place - they are interactive (readers can comment) and easily searchable, and you don't pay a pie, and you don't see any ad's on the page. Also, updating a blog is easier than building/editing a webpage, I feel, though building a simple webpage is also a job that can be done in minutes with the help of various tools. > > If we use the blog to "thinking aloud", the situation would go to what Sitaram and Krishna were opposing of - we force our members to be up to date with information in the group messages as well as blogs. (I assume that "thinking aloud" here means that we post our ideas there and create discussions there.) If a discussion is the idea of the day, blog is not a solution - we're looking at a discussion board or a "forum". This is not my idea either. It takes considerable time to maintain and moderate a forum, I speak out of my experience as moderator for a few fora in the past. > > For me, a blog shall be a showcase of our work - accomplishments (with photos and statistics), efforts, cases, etc. and... that's it, for most of the time, unless members can think of more ideas to go into it. This is an idea that I propose(d) only so that we get more exposure on the WWW (Wild Wild Web, without a search engine). > > << By the way, how much space is required for us to have a website of our own. >> > > If we're looking at a simple website with HTML pages, it hardly takes about 10 MB. If you're putting pictures there, you'd need a lot more. But, then, a website is not just about space - it's more about the bandwidth needed, IMHO. Krishna gaaru is a better person to explain this; I am technically not as sound. > > Sincerely, > NaChaKi > PS: 1. Well, we didn't finalize the blog ideas, yet, it appears! But, we shall close this soon. > 2. If people don't see a point in blogging (as defined by my idea above), I'd still want to go ahead with an exclusive blog for tomakeadifference group, with due permission from the group. So, please comment on that too. (Can you people believe that I can take care of the "official blog" all by myself? I'd be glad to do that, by the way!) >
