hi Karthik, I got your concern..
How can we maintain - forum, website and group at the same time? Are you more worried about the repitition of the content? Users have to login into the forum too.. and make a note over there.. - a point of wastage of time.. Hmmm... Partly I do agree, but I still strongly feel that new people can make a good use out of forum, than from Website or from Group mails directly.. We will have to find a win-win solution here.. May be I will come up with one soon.. so that our group members needn't feel worried about the repition of the content across two places (Website will give a formal update and not intricate details as group mails nor point wise details as forums) Regards, Vani. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Vani M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Karthik, > > Good question raised.... > I cannot wait to reply back before Prasanthi does :D > > I will take up the forum point first, compare it with website and then > with our yahoo group respectively, in the following points. > > 1. Forum is in a way good for people to raise their questions.. Seeing the > website, they might get questions but cannot find answers in FAQs, most of > the time. From the group mails, they will just drown into the mails and can > not make head of tail atleast in the first few visits. Someone needs to > guide them when it comes to a new person checking the mails. > > 2. One of the forum rules is - discuss one point at a time, within the > topic. Website, can provide this information to some extent but as mentioned > above, cannot answer their doubts. Group mails, they might take some time to > figure out which mail they really want to look into. > > 3. Forum is sorted. I can jump directly into Education (Main Topic) and > check for dicussions in Project Library. With Website, to some extent, yes.. > we can know there is something called Project Library and the recent > updates. Group Mails - Forget it.. we didn't discuss about Project Library > in past 6 months. > > 4. Forum will show the discussions of people. website doesn't. Group Mails > - Gmail is needed to tag the mails (from the time of their presence into > group) but if they are browsing through the yahoo group, the person will be > in a total mess. Have to check the subject line.. and then get into > searching with that subject line.. > > I do not know if I made any sense - Please feel free to throw back any > object that u want to, at me.. if you are not convinced (make sure it > doesn't hit your computer screen) > -- "The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination." -- John Schaar
